13038 - Portfolio Lead
| Posting date: | 24 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £58,511 to £70,725 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary is £58,511 - £65,329, London salary is £63,343 - £70,725. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 13038 |
Summary
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
This role aligns against Senior Digital Portfolio Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
A Portfolio Lead is responsible for co-ordinating and managing a portfolio of digital projects.
At this role level, you will:
• Track, analyse and help deliver outcomes in your portfolio
• Give guidance and deal with issues to help teams to deliver faster
• Manage governance and assurance processes, and ensure standards are met
• Provide information to stakeholders on work performance and related risks
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure visibility and insight on portfolio performance to measure and monitor the value it brings to the organisation, aligning with strategic goals and set outcomes through targeted metrics.
• Drive portfolio maturity and continuous improvements, management and support across key areas including:
• Risk, issues and dependency management
• Workforce planning and resource management
• Commercial and contract management
• Finance and budget management
• Provide key stakeholders with a timely assessment of portfolio components including portfolio-level issues and risks that are impacting performance to support senior-level decision making.
• Develop and implement portfolio governance to enable effective and efficient decision making and supporting teams and stakeholders to apply good practice standards and methodology.
• Manage data and reporting requirements from all areas (internal and external) including commissions for data and information.
• Manage the production of the quarterly plans to mature the portfolio with key milestones and outcomes to monitor progress against own plans, including leading the portfolio Quarterly Assurance Reviews.
• Be the escalation point to resolve issues and remove blockers for portfolio, ensuring concerns and issues are appropriately escalated.
• Present portfolio level updates to established board meetings to aid decision making and strategic planning.
• Display confidence and credibility while fostering robust relationships with teams and stakeholders. Manage their expectations effectively and lead discussions on high-risk and complex issues. Keep the focus on priorities that have the most significant impact and harmonise diverse perspectives.
• Lead a team and their direct reports in adopting new processes, products, systems and ways of working. This includes overseeing the implementation and management of strategies to organise and prioritise the team’s tasks, as well as fostering their continuous growth and development.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
• Have demonstrable experience of driving portfolios of change, in both traditional and agile delivery styles
• Engages and manages stakeholders effectively, with the ability to influence and build consensus
• Experienced in managing and appropriately applying good practice frameworks and approaches that improve performance
• Experience in managing change in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of leading, managing or building a team
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
This role aligns against Senior Digital Portfolio Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
A Portfolio Lead is responsible for co-ordinating and managing a portfolio of digital projects.
At this role level, you will:
• Track, analyse and help deliver outcomes in your portfolio
• Give guidance and deal with issues to help teams to deliver faster
• Manage governance and assurance processes, and ensure standards are met
• Provide information to stakeholders on work performance and related risks
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure visibility and insight on portfolio performance to measure and monitor the value it brings to the organisation, aligning with strategic goals and set outcomes through targeted metrics.
• Drive portfolio maturity and continuous improvements, management and support across key areas including:
• Risk, issues and dependency management
• Workforce planning and resource management
• Commercial and contract management
• Finance and budget management
• Provide key stakeholders with a timely assessment of portfolio components including portfolio-level issues and risks that are impacting performance to support senior-level decision making.
• Develop and implement portfolio governance to enable effective and efficient decision making and supporting teams and stakeholders to apply good practice standards and methodology.
• Manage data and reporting requirements from all areas (internal and external) including commissions for data and information.
• Manage the production of the quarterly plans to mature the portfolio with key milestones and outcomes to monitor progress against own plans, including leading the portfolio Quarterly Assurance Reviews.
• Be the escalation point to resolve issues and remove blockers for portfolio, ensuring concerns and issues are appropriately escalated.
• Present portfolio level updates to established board meetings to aid decision making and strategic planning.
• Display confidence and credibility while fostering robust relationships with teams and stakeholders. Manage their expectations effectively and lead discussions on high-risk and complex issues. Keep the focus on priorities that have the most significant impact and harmonise diverse perspectives.
• Lead a team and their direct reports in adopting new processes, products, systems and ways of working. This includes overseeing the implementation and management of strategies to organise and prioritise the team’s tasks, as well as fostering their continuous growth and development.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
• Have demonstrable experience of driving portfolios of change, in both traditional and agile delivery styles
• Engages and manages stakeholders effectively, with the ability to influence and build consensus
• Experienced in managing and appropriately applying good practice frameworks and approaches that improve performance
• Experience in managing change in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of leading, managing or building a team
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.