Senior Portfolio Advisor

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	08 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Manchester, M2 3AW
Cwmni:	inploi
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	75740152

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Job summary

The Project Delivery Centre of Excellence has grown significantly since its creation in June 2020 and consists of the following expertise: Portfolio Management, Assurance, Benefits, Business Change and the PD Profession. This is an exciting time to join us, and there is much to do.

The Senior Portfolio Advisor role is one of two at this grade that will work across these functions and help to provide much needed capacity to test, adapt and improve project delivery across the department. We have a current vacancy and we are looking for a candidate who is interested to join our team to play a key role in guiding how DCMS operates its project delivery function. This is a challenging and varied role, with scope for significant learning on portfolio, programme and project management.

We have a high performing and supportive team environment. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about working collaboratively with others in the team and across DCMS to continue making the department a great place to deliver the best projects in Whitehall.

Job description

You will contribute to the following duties, some of which may be distributed within the wider team according to business needs. Please note that this list is not exhaustive:

• Work with the team to embed sound project delivery understanding and practice on areas such as project delivery capability, change management, programme reporting, benefits management, assurance and risk.
• Provide advice and support to projects across all areas of departmental delivery, including sponsorship policy and capital investment.
• Contribute to the governance of our major programmes by supporting the work of the Delivery and Risk Committee (DRC), monthly reporting insight and analysis of GMPP data.
• Work with the team to provide leadership for strategic long term roadmaps for the Project Delivery function.
• Collaborate on a prioritised schedule of risk and assurance reviews for a wide range of projects including our major projects, tier C (departmental priority) and corporate change projects. Provide cross-cutting analysis from the assurance programme (eg on resourcing, dependencies) and assess progress on the implementation of recommendations.
• Create a culture of learning by contributing findings, experience and lessons learnt to the Project Delivery Community of Practice to spread good practice across the Portfolio.
• Support the development of the Project Delivery Profession and promote learning and development activities.
• Work with the Business Change functions across the organisation, ensuring individuals understand their roles and responsibilities and have access to the right training, tools and development.

Person specification

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Essential

• Good delivery skills with the ability to work at pace and to deadline, both on your own and within teams.
• Experience of working as a Project/Programme Manager on a capital and/or policy project, with demonstrable experience of delivering two or more of the following project functions: governance and reporting, benefits management, business change, assurance and approvals, portfolio management and / or programme / project reporting, analysis and insight.
• Good stakeholder management skills. Proven ability to work closely with a range of people at all levels to secure successful outcomes.
• An inquisitive nature with an interest in improving processes, systems and ways of working.
• Committed to improving the project delivery profession and to putting people at the heart of change.
• A P3M (project, programme or portfolio) qualification e.g. Prince2, MSP, APM or substantial experience of working on projects and willing to work towards a P3M qualification

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by the vacancy holder Peter Watson, and will take place on:

• Tuesday 16th September 11.30am

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please register your interest by filling out this Registration form by 15th August 11.00am and you will be sent an invitation.

Please note that the session will not be recorded and will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk

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