Senior Digital Portfolio Manager

Job Description

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Digital Portfolio Manager for a 4 Month contract based in Manchester or Blackpool - Hybrid working.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Support the development and implementation of the Portfolio management Service offering

As a Senior Digital Portfolio Manager your main responsibilities will be:
* Manage a portfolio projects on their delivery progress using defined methods for each project tackling issues and resource constraints as they are escalated.

* Provide analysis and updates to senior members of the senior leadership regarding the progress and potential issues within your portfolio.

* Maintain a view of key project factors such as outcomes, costs, risks, dependencies and priorities across the portfolio, ensuring they are documented appropriately.

* Provide key inputs into the development and embedding of Portfolio Standards across your delivery Portfolio.

* Identity and unblock issues and risks as they arise, often working with stakeholders to remove blockers and advising others within your scope on appropriate methods to enable projects to progress faster.

* Play a key role in the development of project business cases and monitor project benefits against the business case predictions, ensuring plans, timescales and deliverables are aligned to expected benefits.

* Provide facilitation and secretariat support to appropriate meetings and governance forums. Ensuring effective co-ordination of all administration, presentational material and co-ordinate briefing and preparation for the chair and provide clear audit trail of decisions, actions and outcomes.

Essential:
* Portfolio management experience
* Risk management experience
* Stakeholder management
* Change management

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant / Commitment

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".