Digital Portfolio Manager – Governance & Risk Assurance

Job summary

Can you help shape the governance and assurance that enables successful delivery of digital services?

Do you thrive on managing risk, improving performance and supporting informed decision-making?

Would you like to play a key role in ensuring digital investments deliver maximum value for the Department for Transport?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to join the Digital, Information and Security Directorate within the Department for Transport as we restructure our directorate to ensure we are ready for future challenges, building a more sustainable, skilled and in-house capability.

Influence priorities. Reduce risk. Maximise impact. Join a team at the heart of digital delivery, ensuring investments, resources and governance processes support the Department for Transport's strategic ambitions.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday

• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

As a Digital Portfolio Manager, Governance & Risk Assurance, you will play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of digital investments across the Department for Transport. Working within the Portfolio Management Hub, you will help ensure that projects and programmes are effectively governed and assured, risks are understood and managed, and decision-makers have the information they need to prioritise investment and maximise value.

You will work closely with project teams, senior leaders and stakeholders to coordinate portfolio activities, monitor performance, and support assurance processes that drive successful outcomes. By maintaining oversight of governance, risk and investment performance, you will help identify opportunities for improvement and contribute to informed, evidence-based decision-making using digital portfolio, programme and project management software and tools.

The role offers the opportunity to influence how digital initiatives are prioritised, governed and delivered, ensuring they align with strategic objectives and customer needs. You will support continuous improvement across the portfolio, helping teams adopt effective governance practices while strengthening accountability and transparency.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your portfolio management expertise, work with a diverse range of stakeholders, and contribute to the delivery of digital services that make a difference across the Department for Transport.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Help to create environments that enable teams to deliver.

• Support the prioritisation of a group of projects and programmes.

• Help teams to follow governance, assurance and digital delivery processes.

• Help stakeholders understand the performance of work and any related risks.

• Support more senior portfolio managers and leadership in collating digital data and metrics to make evidence based decisions and improvements.

• To ensure governance board cadence is followed and to be accountable for the successful management and running of them.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Essential qualifications:

You must hold at least three of the following qualifications/or equivalent at the point of application:

• Management of Risk Foundation and Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes,
• Management of Portfolio (MOP)
• P30 at foundation level
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• APMG Agile Project Management Foundation & Practitioner
• APM Project Management Qualification
• GOST Foundation, and working towards Practitioner

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience supporting the governance, assurance or delivery of portfolios, programmes or projects, with an understanding of how effective governance enables successful outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, influence decisions and work collaboratively across a range of teams and seniority levels.
• Ability to analyse and interpret performance, financial or portfolio data, using digital software and tools alongside insight to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of portfolio, programme or project management methodologies, governance frameworks and assurance processes.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly and tailor messages for different audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting investment planning, prioritisation, benefits realisation or portfolio reporting.

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

DfTc does not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.

Qualifications

You must hold at least three of the following qualifications/or equivalent at the point of application:
•Management of Risk Foundation and Practit