Portfolio Benefits Realisation Lead - Police Staff - Change - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ

Salary: The starting salary is £62,310, which includes allowances totalling £3,009 Job Purpose The role provides strategic leadership and oversight of benefits realisation across the national and London Counter Terrorism and Protective Security (CT & PS) portfolio and programme landscape. It ensures a consistent, robust, and best‑practice approach to benefits management that enables the identification, tracking, reporting, and realisation of benefits at portfolio, programme, and project level. Working closely with Project and Programme Managers, senior responsible owners, and key change enablers, the role ensures that benefits are clearly defined, owned, and aligned to business cases and organisational priorities, supporting the delivery of intended outcomes across the CT & PS change portfolio. The role leads the development and maintenance of the CT & PS benefits management strategy and operates as a centre of excellence for Benefits Realisation Management, providing expert guidance, tools, standards, training, and quality assurance. This includes supporting both centrally managed and regionally delivered projects and programmes, coordinating benefits mapping activities to validate dependencies and outcomes, and ensuring benefits are consistently understood and agreed with stakeholders. The role also establishes and maintains effective digital and data‑driven approaches to benefits tracking and reporting, analysing performance and impact to inform decision‑making and continuous improvement. Acting as the principal specialist adviser on benefits realisation, the role engages with the CT Policing Executive, the national CT policing network, and the wider benefits management community to promote best practice, strengthen capability, and ensure a coherent, end‑to‑end approach to benefits management across all stages of the change lifecycle. Sitting under the team structure of the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), the role holder acts as both the Portfolio Management and Centre of Excellence lead for Benefits Management and will: Lead the creation and application of portfolio standards (in developing and managing benefits realisation plans, post-implementation reviews, benefits mapping, profiling, planning and tracking, which may include facilitation of workshops and internal upskilling.) Drive the development of the tools, templates and guidance for benefits management at project, programme and portfolio levels. Own Portfolio-level benefits management controls. Key Responsibilities Key responsibilities for the Portfolio Benefits Realisation Lead are: Portfolio Management: Ownership of the national and London CT & PS Benefits Management controls to enable effective realisation of benefits Lead the Portfolio Management Benefits function by applying advanced knowledge in the technical/professional discipline of Benefits Management, across the portfolio, providing meaningful insights and challenge to senior leadership to ensure cashable and non-cashable benefits are being delivered to support the CT Policing Executive, SROs and Project Executives. Champion and implement portfolio benefits management to enable CTPHQ’s Change Portfolio to be ‘best in class’ against Government Project Delivery Profession’s industry standard Lead the team to deliver timely, accurate and insightful reporting products that enable senior stakeholders to make effective decisions on the delivery of the CTP Change Portfolio Direct, monitor and report on the key portfolio risks and issues to the realisation of benefits, ensuring progress is highlighted and ensure that they are appropriately escalated, managed and mitigated. Ensure the management and coordination of appropriate benefits processes for all projects and programmes Encourage close working with the Planning & Resourcing and Reporting & RAID teams to track key milestones and highlight dependencies in the change delivery portfolio, understand how these contribute to delivery of benefits and how any changes affect the risk profile. Centre of Excellence: Lead the Benefits Management Centre of Excellence function Own the Centre of Excellence development roadmap for benefits management specialism and lead on the continuous improvement of Portfolio benefits management practices Lead and manage the creation, continuous improvement, and consistent use of benefits management tools, templates and processes across the portfolio, setting and communicating processes, embedding best practice techniques and standards Work closely with the portfolio leadership team, project and programme managers and external Portfolio stakeholders to understand the benefits management needs across the portfolio and ensure that standards are developed to enable efficient delivery of change projects and programmes Lead the development, maintenance and implementation of robust, effective and efficient benefits management approaches and processes, and provide associated guidance and tools required, at portfolio, programme and project levels. Provide overall direction and expertise for benefits management by ensuring the provision of appropriate tools and products for managing benefits and being responsible for ensuring these are reviewed within programmes and projects and on a regular basis. Ensure that there is effective provision of hands-on support and guidance to the programmes across the specialisms, ensuring consistency of approach, ways of working and processes, and that benefits management standards and practices are adhered to across the CT & PS change portfolios at all levels, working with Project and Programme PMOs to achieve this Provide benefits management expertise at national and London CT & PS portfolio level, and act as a ‘critical friend’, ensuring controls are robust, realistic and achievable. Lead engagement with the Strategic Design Authority, to ensure that change proposed is realistically deliverable from a business perspective and that the Change Network are engaged in the business assurance of design where appropriate Work collaboratively with the CTPHQ Performance Team and Strategic Finance team, who will have a key role in tracking the delivery of benefits. Vetting This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post. Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 2nd June 2026. Essential For The Role Skills Leading on PPM Benefits management across a complex portfolio of change Highly competent in collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data to support effective decision making and the successful delivery of the change portfolio Highly competent in providing quality assurance reviews and feedback for Stage Gate assurance Highly competent in providing quality assurance of benefits management products for Change Control Requests Highly competent in reporting on benefits realisation Highly competent in data collection and analysing options to support decision-makers Highly competent in portfolio analysis Highly competent in presentation and verbal communications skills, including storytelling Highly competent in workshop design and facilitation with the ability to elicit information and agreement from different types of stakeholders Highly competent in providing effective challenge to leaders across the organisation in order to lead change and improve service delivery Highlight competent leadership skills – ability to create and motivate a high-performing team to deliver on Portfolio Management Office objectives Highly competent in interacting, negotiating and building strong working relationships with senior managers to inform and influence decision making to achieve transformational change and deliver business change and improvement activity Exceptional planning and organisational skills, and able to manage a team and prioritise their work effectively to meet demanding deadlines in a pressured environment Demonstrates strong understanding of:

• Portfolio Management
• Project/Programme scoping and initiation
• Portfolio Planning
• Portfolio Resource Management
• Portfolio Governance and Reporting
• RAID Management
• Business change lifecycle
• Financial Management and forecasting Essential Experience Experience of senior management within a complex change portfolio Experience of influencing, negotiating with, and providing challenge to director-level stakeholders Experience of managing a team, setting a collaborative culture, building capability and creating an environment of continuous learning Demonstrated experience of supporting people with limited knowledge of effective programme or project planning and portfolio resource management. Experience of managing suppliers and contractors, assuring quality and ensuring value for money Experience of facilitating groups, balancing conflicting opinions, building consensus as necessary. Experience applying of the principles of benefits management, using the relevant tools and techniques across a portfolio of change. Demonstrated experience of providing effective challenge to support project / programme delivery Experience of providing deep technical expertise in the area of specialism Experience of setting standards in the area of specialism within a large programme or portfolio environment Experience of developing organisational capability in the area of specialism and experience of driving improvements to processes within to support effective decision-making. Experience of establishing and implementing benefits management processes within a large Programme or portfolio environment. Experience in applying programme and project management approaches such as MSP and PRINCE2 in a large project, programme or portfolio environment. Disability Confident Statement Read our full disability confidence statement.