Digital Portfolio Manager
Department for Transport
About the job
Job summary
We are looking for a Digital Portfolio Manager.
Are you a proactive and motivated individual who enjoys collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders?
Are you a team player with a committed work ethic?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced and busy work environment?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Digital Portfolio Manager will be responsible for co-ordinating and managing a group, or ‘portfolio’, of digital projects. In this role, you will use an iterative and flexible approach to help define governance processes for this portfolio. You’ll shape delivery schedules for current and upcoming projects based on priority and resource availability. You will facilitate the closures of project phases and bespoke elements of work while supporting the ongoing delivery of all projects within the digital portfolio.
Job description
In the role of Digital Portfolio Manager you will:
- Analyse and interpret data, recognise risks and put forward recommendations.
- Help to create conducive environments that enable teams to deliver on their objectives.
- Support the prioritisation of a group of projects and programmes.
- Advise teams to follow governance and delivery processes, ensuring consistency, compliance and quality across all projects and programmes.
- Provide support to stakeholders, helping them to understand the performance of work and any related risks.
- Support more senior portfolio managers and demonstrate leadership in making advancements to execute strategic initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
In return, we can offer you:
- Access to new and emerging technologies.
- Varied projects developed in a cloud-first environment.
- Support and investment to further your training and development.
- Flexible and hybrid working supporting a healthy work-life balance.
- Industry-leading pension and employee benefits package.
Person specification
We are seeking a proactive, self-motivated individual who is highly organised and forward-thinking. Excellent communication skills are a must, as well as strong analytical abilities to interpret data and report findings. An eye for detail is crucial, as you will need to identify risks and propose solutions. A solid understanding of agile methodologies is also essential.
To thrive in this role you will be a collaborative worker who can create and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Adaptable and flexible, you will be able to work at pace whilst maintaining and providing a high quality of work with a focus on attention to detail.
DfT: Digital Service
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Additional Information
A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
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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.How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of the following:
- Experience of managing and influencing relationships with project sponsors as well as with senior stakeholders, understanding priorities and demands.
- Experience of managing both internal and external resources that are allocated to projects and initiatives.
- Experience of ensuring initiatives achieve agreed objectives within time, cost and quality constraints.
- Experience of being responsible for tracking and reporting progress.
- An understanding of agile methodologies.
Sift & Interview Dates
The sift is due to take place from 21st May 2024.
Interviews are due to take place from 3rd June 2024.
This interview could be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview.
- A planning exercise.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Document Accessibility
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This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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
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.