Crown Estate Scotland
Portfolio Analyst
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The Role
Crown Estate Scotland has an exciting opportunity for a Portfolio Analyst to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis.
By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you’ll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You’ll be working alongside like-minded individuals who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.
About the Role
The successful candidate/s for this new role within the organisation will be responsible for:
- Maintaining accurate and timely portfolio data, registers, and reporting tools
- Collating and validating information from programme and project teams
- Producing dashboards, reports, and analysis identifying trends, risks, dependencies, and capacity pressures
- Supporting integrated planning, scenario analysis, and resource forecasting
- Tracking benefits, business case commitments, assurance activity, and resulting actions
- Highlighting incomplete, inconsistent, or emerging information for review by the PMO Manager or Head of PMO
- Supporting the continuous improvement of agreed PMO processes, tools, and templates
- Building effective relationships with colleagues to gather information and promote consistent reporting practices
The contractual working location of this role is our Edinburgh office. However, we believe work is something you do, not a place you go to, and we are committed to supporting employees to work flexibly and in a way that suits their role and preferences.
Benefits
- The starting salary will be £40,897 with potential for future progression as well as eligibility of annual cost of living rises. The maximum salary for this role is currently £47,118.
- 25 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 days after two years’ service, plus 11.5 public/ privilege days
- Participation in the Civil Service pension scheme
- Crown Estate Scotland encourage flexible working and operate a discretionary flexi-time scheme
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At Crown Estate Scotland we believe that continuous learning and development helps us to do our best in work and build professional skills and expertise. We offer a range of training opportunities delivered by external training providers and in-house experts and provide all employees with access to LinkedIn Learning. We also support individuals to pay professional membership fees relevant to their roles and aim to support additional study and learning requests wherever possible.
As well as helping you to develop professionally, we also support your personal development through our ‘Wellbeing Matters’ programme with its focus on four important pillars of wellbeing – physical, emotional, social, and financial.
About You
You should have:
- Relevant degree level qualification or equivalent work experience
- Relevant experience in a PMO, project, or portfolio support environment
- Strong analytical capability with ability to interpret multiple data sources
You will have the following qualities, which are key to success in this role:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly across a wide range of PMO disciplines (planning, risk, benefits, change, assurance)
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Ability to translate complex data into clear, concise insight for non-technical audiences
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About Us
We manage property – including buildings, land, coastline, and seabed – on behalf of people of Scotland. Our purpose is to invest in property, natural resources, and people to generate lasting value for Scotland. Our profits go to Scottish public spending.
We work in a way that:
- Generates prosperity and value for all of Scotland
- Supports the growth of sustainable business and industry in Scottish seas and on the coast
- Makes places better for those who live, work, and visit there
- Promotes sustainable ways of producing energy, food, and other products
- Creates opportunities for people to use and benefit from the Scottish Crown Estate
Our values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, and Commercialism help us to put our purpose into practice. They shape how we work, underpin our actions, and help to make Crown Estate Scotland a great place to work.
By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you’ll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You’ll be working alongside like-minded individuals who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.
Crown Estate Scotland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds. We want to ensure every candidate has a positive experience and can most effectively demonstrate their suitability for the role they are applying for. Please tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to help you in your application or with our recruitment and selection process.
We welcome requests to work on a job share basis.
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