Future Technology Governance and Reporting
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £37,922 to £41,992 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 June 2026 |
| Location: | YO1 7PX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 461450/4 |
Summary
Government Skills was created in 2020 to improve the coherence and quality of learning and development in government through better training, knowledge and networks. Ministers have now asked us to make an ambitious Spending Review bid to transform the operating model for skills in government, delivered under The National School of Government and Public Services.
As part of this transformational change of delivering training, we are reviewing the balance between training procured externally and design and/or delivered internally in the civil service. We expect this balance to shift more towards in-house design and/or delivery as we move away from the current approach of outsourcing to external training providers.
The Learning Infrastructure Team is responsible for three enabling workstreams under the National School of Government and Public Services Portfolio. Between them, these workstreams cover the current, transitional and future infrastructure to support centralised training for Civil Servants.
Your role is to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of the governance frameworks and reporting cycles that provide transparency to the Government Skills Portfolio Board and other senior boards. You will help ensure that as we transition to a new way of delivering commercial and technical infrastructure that provides a centralised training model for 550,000 Civil Servants, every decision is evidenced, and every risk is accounted for.
You will be responsible for maintaining the "single source of truth" for the project, ensuring that our infrastructure delivery covering commercial and digital workstreams remains robustly assured and audit-ready.
In line with the Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF), your responsibilities include:
- Governance Framework Support: Maintain the project’s established governance structure, including drafting updates to Terms of Reference for boards and supporting clear escalation routes for decisions and risks.
- Reporting & Data Analysis: Support the production of high-quality monthly progress returns for the Government Skills Portfolio Board, the Government People Group PMO and Project Profession Authority, by collecting, validating, and analysing workstream data to ensure reporting is accurate and honest.
- Report and Presentation Production: Contribute to the creation of and drafting of slide decks, briefing papers, and sections of business cases.
- Secretariat Support: Provide professional secretariat support for Board-level forums, including managing meeting logistics, maintaining agendas, and drafting meeting minutes and high-level briefing papers.
- Risk & Issue Management Support: Facilitate the proactive identification and tracking of risks and dependencies across workstreams, ensuring they are accurately logged and integrated into the governance cycle.
- Change Control Support: Support the change control process by tracking and documenting any shifts in scope, cost, or timelines within the infrastructure project to maintain baseline integrity.
- Knowledge & Assurance: Support continuous improvement by organising "lessons learned" sessions and maintaining all project artefacts to meet future audit requirements.
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