Portfolio Lead(Ref: 89638)

We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Portfolio & Controls team.
As the Portfolio Lead you will be responsible for ensuring that the portfolio of work is effectively coordinated and managed. You will work with colleagues across Justice Digital to build a clear and comprehensive portfolio that helps deliver strategy, ensuring that there is strong focus on value and delivery. You will:
+ Coordinate prioritisation of the portfolio required to deliver strategy
+ Support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to Justice Digital standards
+ Understand the performance and risk profile of work both in delivery and in pipeline, enabling you to provide high quality visibility and insight to stakeholders
+ Act as a critical friend and advisor to the Leadership Team, supporting them with decision making and providing recommendations
You will also be expected to form an active part of our portfolio community and be willing to offer support across other areas as the need arises. Your primary reporting line is into the Portfolio team within Strategy & Operations, though as part of being a matrix organisation you’ll also have a ‘dotted’ line into the leadership of your assigned portfolio.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025, Coordinate prioritisation and shaping of the portfolio required to deliver strategy:
+ Work with the portfolio leadership team to build a balanced portfolio of work that delivers strategy
+ Drive effective prioritisation, and application of it to inform delivery decisions
+ Work with key stakeholders to ensure initiatives are set up for success, whether through assuring shaping work done or via supporting shaping itself
Support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to Justice Digital standards:
+ Drive the portfolio to apply good practice standards and approaches to underpin high-quality delivery and management of change
+ Ensure that concerns and issues are appropriately escalated and dealt with, able to coordinate unblocking
+ Run and participate in governance to help effective and efficient decision making and delivery
+ Guide stakeholders through the application of existing methodologies, practices and techniques. Implement improvements into the current ways of working
Understand the performance and risk profile of work both in delivery and in pipeline, enabling you to provide high quality visibility and insight to stakeholders:
+ Establish visibility and insight on performance, giving a relied upon view of whether strategy and outcomes are on track to management & central portfolio
+ Build strong relationships with teams and stakeholders in order to obtain good up to date visibility and information on status and risk
+ Drive a portfolio view of risk, delivery roadmaps, dependencies, and support effective management of them
+ ‘Connect the dots’; join up a forward-looking picture of delivery performance and risk with other dimensions (e.g. financial, people, architectural, service) for insight and to provide constructive challenge
Act as a critical friend and advisor to the Leadership Team, supporting them with decision making and providing recommendations:
+ Be a valued source of advice, information and insight to the leadership team giving them a reliable and independent picture for proactive action
+ Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity. Help maintain focus on what is most important and impactful
+ Provide supportive assurance; helping initiatives to proactively recognise and address challenges
+ Build effective relationships and working practices across other capabilities, including other central and support functions
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!, Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (c.750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
+ Communicating & Influencing
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Leadership
+ Managing a Quality Service
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your experience of driving portfolios of change, in both traditional and agile delivery styles will be conducted before the sift.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer, + 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
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.

+ 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
+ A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
+ Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
+ Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
+ 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
+ Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
+ Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
+ Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
+ Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
+ 5 days volunteering paid leave.
+ Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
+ Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym., Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice contributes £15,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ Access to learning and development
+ A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
+ A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
+ Annual Leave
+ Public Holidays
+ Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ