Senior Digital Portfolio Manager

Senior Digital Portfolio Manager: Pay up to £75,748, plus over 27% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. 

DWP. Digital with Purpose. 

This is an exciting opportunity for aSenior Digital Portfolio Manager to join our Portfolio community.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users. Our teams in DWP Digital are transforming DWP's services by unlocking the potential of leading-edge technologies and ways of working.

We are delivering a once-in-a-generation transformation of products and services that almost everyone in the UK will use, at key times in their lives.

As a Portfolio Management community our role is as proactive enablers. We have a lot of activity happening across a huge department, and you'll make sure decisions surrounding the timing, structure, prioritisation, and delivery of our projects & programmes, are correctly planned and managed.

The scale of what we do is incredible, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. 

Directing World-class Projects

We're growing our talented Portfolio Management community.

As our new Senior Digital Portfolio Manager you will help us manage plans, risks, issues and dependencies across complex projects and programmes.

Our team ensures timing, structure, planning and prioritisation of DWP's programmes and projects.

You will need to have the skills to lead and build strategic relationships and influence stakeholders. You will proactively engage with your stakeholders to find out what you need to know, to identify risks and ensure standards are met.

You will identify and prioritise new work that aligns to our Digital Strategy and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.

You will provide assurance an executive level we are on target to deliver against our portfolio - getting involved and escalating to make sure we stay on track.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? 

• You will have experience of operating controls within a portfolio context to ensure projects are effectively tracked, responding appropriately to what the project data is indicating.
• Must have experience of using strong leadership skills to communicate with a variety of stakeholders, using data to support difficult messages in a way that is easy to understand and helps influence Senior-level decision making.
• Ability to analyse multiple data sets to understand the portfolio and be able to prioritise the most important or highest value tasks for intervention or escalation.
• You'll have experience of integration planning and managing complex internal and external dependencies including the identification and removal of blockers as needed.
• You will have experience of ensuring activities remain aligned to strategic priorities and compliant with associated governance and assurance regimes.
• Demonstrable experience in a senior portfolio management or senior project management role within a major Digital or Change environment.
• You'll have a recognised Portfolio or Project Management qualification such as:

• Management of Portfolios (Foundation & Practitioner)
• Prince2
• MSP Foundation & Practitioner
• APM PMQ (formerly APMP)
• PMI (Project Management Institute)
• PfMP (Portfolio Management Professional

Details. Wages. Perks. 

You'll join us in our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield or London.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and some time in the office. 

We offer competitive pay from £52,412 - £75,748, based on our assessment of your skills and capability.

You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%.

You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave. 

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: 

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days 
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home 
• Family-friendly policies 
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving 
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' 
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more 
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket 
• Sports and social activities 
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture 
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. 

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