Associate Digital Portfolio Manager: Pay up to £36,545, plus up to 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
- Are you a highly organized self-starter with analytical and strategic thinking skills?
- DWP Digital is offering an amazing opportunity to kickstart a career as an Associate Portfolio Manager.
- If you thrive in a fast-paced and varied environment, and want to do work that makes a real difference, this could be the perfect fit for you!
Portfolio Management is key in DWP Digital. We have a lot of activity happening across a huge department, and you'll make sure decisions surrounding the timing, structure, prioritisation, and delivery of our projects & programmes, are correctly planned and managed.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.
Our DWP Digital teams are delivering a once-in-a-generation transformation of products and services that almost everyone in the UK will use, at key times in their lives. We're using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works.
The scale of what we do is incredible, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
Directing World-class Projects
We're growing our brilliant Portfolio Management community. Within this role you will be part of managing the demand pipeline for our portfolio - prioritising outcomes, budget, and resources.
You'll make sure there is capacity to meet the delivery plans, triggering things like recruitment activity or budget requests.
You an advisor and support to the project team, making sure we're set up right and delivery what we need to. If delivery is at risk, you'll make sure actions are in place to mitigate and enable successful delivery.
You'll help unblock issues, tackle interdependencies and manage risk.
You'll be part of a supportive community of Portfolio Managers, as well as the wider DWP Digital team. We'll invest in your skills so that you have everything you need to be a great Portfolio Manager and help us deliver for the millions of people who are relying on us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Experience of stakeholder management and building good working relationships.
- Experience of producing and maintaining reports using a range of tools.
- Experience of analysing information to make recommendations to help enable effective delivery.
- Knowledge of how projects are run, managed, and governed.
- You'll need to be a good communicator and be able to see the big picture.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or Sheffield.
1 role is based in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, or Newcastle & 1 role is based in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, or Newcastle.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.
In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £36,545.
You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of over 28%.
You'll also generous leave package starting at 24 days, rising to 26 days after one year, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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