Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Portfolio Benefits Lead
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Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford
Job Summary
At DSIT we’re all about improving people’s lives by maximising the potential of science & technology.
We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development.
We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared.
We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back.
We do all this to enable the Government’s 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future.
Above all, we focus on improving people’s lives. Whether it’s researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do.
Our Inclusive Environment
We offer flexible working benefits, employee well-being support and a great pension. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
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Job Description
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is a Directorate within the Department for Business, Innovation, Science, and Trade. At the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space, UKSA leads work to grow the UK’s world-class space sector and foster ground-breaking science and innovation.
Space is an extraordinary and exciting sector that impacts virtually all aspects of our lives. It is a high growth and high productivity area, where targeted Government investment stimulates innovation and creates highly skilled jobs. It is also experiencing disruptive change, with new technologies, business models and market entrants challenging the status quo. UKSA must be flexible and dynamic to ensure UK leadership in the new space age.
We support a thriving space sector in the UK, which generates an annual income of £18.9 billion and employs 52,028 people across the country.
Through our portfolio of programmes and projects, we encourage the development of national space capabilities and are an early-stage investor in space research and development. We also promote the UK space sector’s interests and achievements; make connections to join up industry and academia; and represent the UK in international space programmes
We have a powerful global voice, partnering with institutions across the world, including the European Space Agency.
More information about the Agency is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency
To discover more please watch this film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZZ-o0IkVU
Person specification
The Agency defines its portfolio as the activities that directly deliver value from space to the UK, as well as business change programmes that involve a material allocation of Agency resource. This definition includes the grants that the Agency oversees as well as projects delivered by the Agency.
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As the Benefits Analyst, you will proactively identify, quantify, and track the realisation of benefits across the portfolio.
This role is aligned to the SEO Benefits Manager role in the Project Delivery Capability Framework.
Working closely with the Portfolio Definition Manager, Portfolio Delivery Manager, Strategy and Analysis teams, and Directors, the post holder will be responsible for:
Benefits Management Framework
- Working with stakeholders to ensure that portfolio activities are aligned to the Benefits Management Framework
- Championing benefits management
Benefit Realisation
- Maintain a register of benefits, their ownership and their alignment to the Benefits Management Framework
- Develop and maintain a portfolio-level benefits realisation plan
- Identifying and escalating benefit gaps and duplications
- Tracking and coordinating benefit reviews
Tools And Processes
- Provision of advice to colleagues at all levels in using standards and processes
- Support the maintenance of the benefit system/log, with the support of a technical development team
- Providing training and support to benefit management system users
Reporting
- Co-ordinate benefit reporting across the whole of the Agency
- Preparation of benefit progress reports for the Portfolio Delivery Board
- Timely, consistent and accurate data collection, analysis and reporting
- Providing informed insights using appropriate reporting and visualisation methods
Stakeholder Engagement
- Working with colleagues to ensure the standards, capabilities and processes for project and programme management align with portfolio level benefit management
- Liaise with Stakeholders to understand and gather data
- Work with stakeholders to resolve anomalies or gaps
Other
As the role holder is part of the Project Delivery Profession, there is an expectation to deliver flexibly across programmes and projects according to HMG priorities and as Ministerial priorities change. Therefore, specific responsibilities may evolve to reflect these.
Essential Criteria
- Analytical and presentational skills
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
Desirable Criteria
Desirable experience:
- Experience of benefits realisation in a project or programme environment
- Experience of strategy implementation and planning
- Experience in a governmental organisation
- Experience in creating reports for Board level audiences
Desirable Qualifications
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Any of the following, or their equivalents:
- APMG Managing Benefits Practitioner
- APM Project Management Practitioner Qualifications
- Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
- PMI Project Management Professional
- P3O Practitioner
- Management of Portfolios Practitioner
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Benefits management
- Digital and data
Alongside your salary of £44,620, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £12,926 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
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- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Applications will be sifted on behavioural statements, personal statement, and any technical skills required.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the lead technical skill (Benefits Management) only.
The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.
The link to the technical/professional competency framework that candidates will be assessed against, for their reference:
Please note - the CV incorporated into the application form is for information purposes only and will not be scored.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be
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