Associate Digital Portfolio Manager

• Do you want to put your knowledge and experience of how digital projects are run, managed and governed to the test on a once-in-a-generation reform of government services?

• Do you want to build a brilliant career in project and portfolio management, with lots of opportunities to learn and develop your skills, as part of a supportive PM community?

• Do you have the project and portfolio management skills to support large scale transformation projects?

• Can you produce reports using a range of tools and analysing information to make recommendations to senior managers and influence your stakeholders?

Yes? Then Apply now. We'd love to hear from you!

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department, few other organisations globally provide the same opportunity to apply next-generation digital technology, with unique challenges, on projects which will touch the lives of so many.

We are looking for emerging, ambitious Digital Portfolio Managers who want to help us run projects and solve problems that impact the most vulnerable citizens in society.

You'll join a community of experts in DWP Digital who are all motivated by that unique purpose and our extraordinary scale and impact. We maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.

Delivery. Work. Projects.

Portfolio Management is key in DWP. We ensure that decisions surrounding the timing, structure and prioritisation of projects & programmes, are correctly planned and managed.

You will support tracking, analysis, and reporting and assure delivery of outcomes within your portfolio. You'll work with other project and portfolio experts, and support our multidisciplinary delivery teams so we can work faster and better. You'll help to unblock issues and make sure that proper controls and risk mitigation procedures are in place.

You'll have chance to develop skills in monitoring data visualisation dashboards to track delivery progress, to make sure we're on track to deliver on time and in line with DWP's broader goals.

You will also support compliance activity. You make sure project within your portfolio are compliant with standards, governance and roadmaps.

Details. Wages. Perks

You'll join our team at our digital hub in Blackpool.

However, we currently have all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.

In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to GBP34,285p.a., a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, and a generous leave package.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• 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
• Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring & accreditation
• Shortlisted for a Best Place to Work in Digital Award
• Career progression opportunities and lots more

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