Portfolio Analyst
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National pay locations: Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield £44,720 - £47,850 London pay locations: Croydon £48,720 - 52,130 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 412493/4 |
Summary
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
The Data Services and Analytics (DSA) Delivery Function is in place to ensure the successful delivery of DSA’s agreed priorities. This is achieved by turning product roadmaps and programme plans into realistic forecasted delivery plans, identifying the resource requirements and timelines to achieve the agreed objectives and outcomes.
The delivery function identifies cross-cutting dependencies, risks and issues related to programme and product delivery and works with key stakeholders across DSA to resolve issues and escalate delivery blockers.
The Data Services and Analytics (DSA) Delivery Function is in place to ensure the successful delivery of DSA’s agreed priorities. This is achieved by turning product roadmaps and programme plans into realistic forecasted delivery plans, identifying the resource requirements and timelines to achieve the agreed objectives and outcomes.
The delivery function identifies cross-cutting dependencies, risks and issues related to programme and product delivery and works with key stakeholders across DSA to resolve issues and escalate delivery blockers.
As the Portfolio Analyst, you will be responsible for the oversight of a collection of the programmes and projects that contribute to the delivery of the DSA objectives. Your focus will primarily on providing insight, information and support that strengthens portfolio governance and enables prioritisation decisions and effective allocation of resources across the portfolio.
You will also lead on developing and implementing portfolio level reporting and planning to DSA senior management teams to facilitate discussions on impact of change management, risk and dependencies within the portfolio.
Ultimately, as a portfolio analyst, you will play a vital role in ensuring the optimal delivery of departmental/business strategic objectives in line with government priorities through the analysis of a range of information sources and engagement with programme and project stakeholders, and converting this into informed insights using appropriate reporting and visualisation methods.
Candidates are encouraged to have, or be working towards Government Project Delivery Accreditation within 12 months. This includes the recognised professional project management qualifications associated with the role.
Working Patterns
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, and compressed hours are available.
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