Government Cyber Security Strategy (GCSS): Portfolio Manager
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £64,700 to £75,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National salary £64,700 - £69,200. London salary £68,790 - £75,000. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 348376/1 |
Summary
The Government Security Group (GSG) is the centre of the Security Function, based within the Cabinet Office. GSG is transforming the Government’s approach to protective security to ensure it is fit to meet the challenges of the digital age. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team, with a breadth of stakeholders including in other Government departments, the National Technical Authorities and the Agencies, and to contribute to delivering improved security across Government.
To support the mission of the Government Security Function, in January 2022 we published the Government Cyber Security Strategy. This sets out how we will improve the cyber security of the Government up to 2030. This role manages the portfolio of work that has been established to meet our objective of making all government organisations across the whole public sector being resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods no later than 2030. Most of the projects and programmes within the scope of the portfolio therefore, represent critical central interventions that will enable cyber security improvement across the system. Your team is responsible for understanding and communicating the current state of the portfolio and providing direct support to projects and programmes requiring specialist project delivery skills.
You will be responsible for making sure that SRO’s across the portfolio have access to the needed skills and information to be successful.
This is a key role in delivering the Government's flagship cyber security improvement programme and securing the future of government services. As such we are looking for a strong leader with a demonstrated history of leading diverse teams and excellent project delivery skills. This role is aligned to the G6 PMO manager role in the IPA’s project delivery capability framework.
Key areas of responsibility
The post holders will be responsible for:
- Delivery & Leadership – Lead the PMO to support the implementation of the government cyber security strategy and outcomes. Champion the use of best practice portfolio management standards and processes.
- Budget – Support the portfolio team to effectively oversee the portfolio budget and ensure that forecasts from projects and programmes are accurate.
- Resources – Manage the PMO team and support Project Managers in the identification, recruitment, development, deployment and reassignment of resources throughout project life-cycles.
- Risks & Issues – Continually improve the portfolio processes and standards for managing risks and issues. Provide assurance to project and programme managers on the effectiveness of Risk and Issue management arrangements.
- Governance & Assurance – Ensure appropriate governance is in place and arrange external reviews at appropriate points in the portfolio life-cycle. Monitor the effectiveness of controls and ensure that recommendations from external reviews are acted upon.
- Portfolio Performance & Controls – Establish and operate project controls, reporting on the progress of delivery against the Government Cyber Security Strategy to appropriate bodies. Identify common capabilities and opportunities for linking up, re-using and sharing of methods and resources between projects and programmes. Ensure learning from experience is disseminated across the organisation.
- Guidance & Support – Identify, develop and share best practice project management processes, tools and templates and benchmarks against industry standards. Provides direction and guidance to the PMO team.
- There will also be other tasks commensurate with grade.
We will be hosting a virtual drop in session on 18th April 15:30-16:30 to give a chance for you to learn more about the role and talk to some of the team. If you are interested in attending this please do reach out to cyberprivateoffice@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.