About the job

Job summary

Do you thrive in a fast-paced and varied environment?

Are you a highly organised self-starter, who is analytical and a strategic thinker?

If so, we have an amazing opportunity for Associate Portfolio Manager to start an exciting career in DWP Digital.

DWP Digital is transforming DWP's services by unlocking the potential of leading edge technologies and ways of working. With our partners, we're focused on building and running innovative digital technology solutions that meet and respond to the changing needs and expectations of millions of people. We want to make it quicker, easier, and less costly for DWP's customers to get the support they need.

Portfolio Management is key within DWP Digital in ensuring that decisions surrounding the timing, structure, prioritisation, and delivery of projects & programmes, are correctly planned and managed.

As an Associate Digital Portfolio Manager, you will focus on supporting the team in ensuring that the portfolio of digital projects or delivery activities within a Service or across DWP Digital, delivers optimal outcomes in contributing to the department's aims and delivers on its digital strategy.

One of our roles is based in our central Strategic Portfolio Management group, which focusses on a range of broad strategic oversight activities encompassing: ensuring compliance with wider Government control measures, tracking progress and spend approval for initiatives, commercial approvals and being the gateway into Digital group for new demand and requests for support for our wider business. Engaging and working with the His Majesty’s Treasury, Cabinet Office, and the National Audit Office to support our work in Digital group.

Job description

We're looking for an Associate Digital Portfolio Manager who can help us transform DWP's services by unlocking the potential of leading-edge technologies and ways of working.

You will support in the management of the portfolio's demand pipeline, considering priorities, outcomes, budget, and resources available. Ensure there is capacity to meet the delivery plans, triggering recruitment activity or budget requests when required.

You will support tracking, analysis, and delivery of outcomes within your portfolio, supporting delivery teams in accelerating delivery, assisting in unblocking issues whilst helping to ensure that proper controls and risk mitigation procedures are in place.

You will support in ensuring compliance with standards and supporting adherence to all governance and assurance activity for the Service Teams or DWP Digital, ensuring all service standards are being met.

You will support and collaborate with teams to identify and manage inter-project dependencies, ensuring where delivery is at risk, actions are in place to mitigate and enable successful delivery.

You will advise and support project setup and monitoring to proactively assure project success.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• Experience of stakeholder management and building good working relationships.

• Experience of producing and maintaining reports using a range of tools.

• Experience of analysing information to make recommendations to help enable effective delivery.

• Knowledge of how projects are run, managed, and governed.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Abs.ali@dwp.gov.uk.

Benefits

• An employer pension contribution of up to 28.97% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring. 
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £35,711 to £36,545.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.

3. Personal statement up to 1000 words. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.

Important Information

• You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:

• Communicating and Influencing 
• Seeing the Big Picture 
• Relationship Management 
• Portfolio Management 

Interviews will take place from early-July 2024. Interview dates to be confirmed.

Further information:

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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. 

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location. 

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page. 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.