Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Associate Digital Portfolio Manager
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This role may be located in one of the following locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, and Sheffield.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
Job Summary
Do you thrive in a fast-paced and varied environment?
Are you a highly organized self-starter, who is analytical and a strategic thinker?
If so, we have an amazing opportunity for Associate Portfolio Manager to start an exciting career in DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) Digital.
DWP Digital is transforming DWP services by unlocking the potential of leading edge technologies and ways of working. With our partners, we're focused on building and running innovative digital technology solutions that meet and respond to the changing needs and expectations of millions of people. We want to make it quicker, easier, and less costly for DWP's customers to get the support they need.
Portfolio Management is key within DWP Digital in ensuring that decisions surrounding the timing, structure, prioritization, and delivery of projects and programmes, are correctly planned and managed.
As an Associate Digital Portfolio Manager, you will focus on supporting the team in ensuring that the portfolio of digital projects or delivery activities within a Service or across DWP Digital, delivers optimal outcomes in contributing to the department's aims and delivers on its digital strategy.
Job Description
We're looking for Associate Digital Portfolio Managers who can help us transform DWP's (Department for Work and Pensions) services by unlocking the potential of leading edge technologies and ways of working.
- Support in the management of the portfolio's functional demand pipeline, considering priorities, outcomes, budget, and resources available. Ensure there is capacity to meet the delivery plans, triggering recruitment activity or budget requests when required.
- Support tracking, analysis, and delivery of outcomes within your portfolio, supporting delivery teams in accelerating delivery, assisting in unblocking issues whilst helping to ensure that proper controls and risk mitigation procedures are in place.
- Support in ensuring compliance with standards and supporting adherence to all governance and assurance activity for the Service Teams or DWP Digital, ensuring all service standards are being met.
- Support and collaborate with teams to identify and manage inter-project dependencies, ensuring where delivery is at risk, actions are in place to mitigate and enable successful delivery.
- Advise and support project setup and monitoring to proactively assure project success.
Please note: A foundation qualification in Portfolio Management is desirable but not essential.
Person Specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.Canham1@dwp.gov.uk
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Portfolio Management
- Relationship Management
We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:
- Portfolio Management
Alongside your salary of £38,772, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £11,232 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides here.
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We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time, and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part-time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme, and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA, a first-class programme of competitions, activities, and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry-recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring, and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE), and many more.
Hybrid Working
This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement, and your office will be your contractual place of work.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.
If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.
Salary Information
New entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current substantive salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.
Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate, and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn, and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance here for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience, and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four Parts
- A Personal Details application form.
- Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications, and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.
- Personal statement - up to 750 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- Experience of building strong, collaborative working relationships, establishing trust and credibility through clear communication to support organizational goals and continual improvement.
- Evidence of producing and maintaining high-quality portfolio, programme, or project reports using a range of digital tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, or portfolio management systems), ensuring accurate, timely, and accessible information.
- Demonstrable experience in analysing accurate, timely, and insight-driven reports in a digital or project delivery environment, ensuring information supports effective decision-making and is aligned with governance requirements.
- Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of: Portfolio Management. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:
- Proven working knowledge of how projects, programmes, and portfolios are planned, managed, and governed, including an understanding of key delivery methodologies, governance structures, assurance processes, and the roles involved in successful digital delivery.
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Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Ensure that all examples provided in your statements are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills, and knowledge.
An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement.
Stage 2: Interview
Skills
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:
- Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing
- Behaviour: Working Together
- Technical Skill: Relationship Management
- Technical Skill: Portfolio Management
Interviews will take place from the end of August 2026. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened, and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
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