Digital Portfolio Manager Full Time

City, Birmingham
Department of Work & Pensions

Job Title

Pay up to 47,985, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

We are looking for experienced Digital Portfolio Managers who have a passion for complex problem solving and who can manage large-scale projects, driving progress and innovation.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Digital Portfolio Manager to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We’re using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK’s largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over 195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

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

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience of either portfolio management or project management within a change or digital environment.
• Experience of building long term strategic relationship with stakeholders to facilitate and deliver business outcomes.
• Experience of analysing multiple information sources, producing reports appropriate for senior audiences, including making recommendations for changes.
• Experience of applying appropriate governance procedures including delivery assurance.
• Experience of tracking and reporting progress of digital delivery to senior levels, including identifying, managing and unblocking risks and issues.

You and your role

As a Digital Portfolio Manager, you will be:

• Tracking a portfolio of digital projects, ensuring progress, escalating issues and resource constraints as appropriate.
• Providing analysis, updates and recommendations to members of the leadership team.
• Building, maintaining and managing long term strategic relationships, and influencing stakeholders.
• Ensuring compliance with standards, and adherence to all governance and assurance activity.
• Identifying future risks and blockers – using tooling and information to spot planning and delivery risks.
• Supporting identification, impacting and prioritisation of new work that aligns to the department’s digital strategy.
• Supporting in the development of project business cases and monitor project benefits against the business case predictions.
• Supporting operational managers to ensure plans, timescales and deliverables are aligned to expected benefits.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay:

For national location-based roles we offer up to 43,347.

A Digital Allowance of up to 9,365 per annum is also available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.

For London based roles we offer up to 47,986.

A Digital Allowance of up to 4,726 per annum is also available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97% per annum.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

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

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-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, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There’ll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.