Deputy Director Chief Portfolio Officer

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The Home Office has a compelling mission: to keep our borders secure and our citizens safe. Across the Home Office over 30,000 people carry out critical work to make this happen, through our policies, programmes, and front-line operations. Our programmes and projects range from Policing to Borders, Asylum to Immigration, corporate IT programmes to customer-facing digital services, all of which are underpinned by a thriving community of over 2,000 Project Delivery professionals.

This role is ideal for an experienced portfolio and project professional with strong personal credibility and demonstrable experience as a senior leader working within major portfolios, programmes and projects, with proven leadership and management ability.

You will have a proven track record in leadership and delivery, with the ability to build confidence and trust across a large stakeholder base, from senior project delivery leaders and teams across the organisation.

Above all, you will care about making a difference: transforming how we build a Portfolio function for both the present and the future, over what will be a highly important and exciting time for our country.

Key responsibilities

The Job Holder will be expected to:

  • Provide visible leadership to the project delivery profession, as well as being an active member of PPD’s SLT and deputy Chief Portfolio Officer in the Home Office.
  • Deputise for the Chief Portfolio Officer at InvestCo and other departmental boards
  • Lead and manage across the following teams: Business Partnering, Portfolio Standards and Assurance, Reporting & Data Insights and Portfolio Improvement. (This is subject to change as we implement a new operating model, and is likely to involve additional capabilities and teams)
  • Collaborate with colleagues across the department and third-party consultants, to influence work to refine and implement the organisational design and revised operating model for the Home Office Portfolio.
  • Develop and implement a revised business partnering operating model, and harnessing relationships to enable data driven and informed decisions.
  • Champion and improve project delivery standards across all programmes and driving up compliance through the development of guidance materials, toolkits, and techniques.
  • Maintain and build networks within the Department and more widely, collaborating with other functions including finance, digital, estates and commercial to strengthen the functional model within the department.
  • Driving the maturity roadmap and management of the Home Office Portfolio and its governance through robust, improvement plans.
  • Drive forward-looking analysis and insight to facilitate timely interventions, and leading annual and in-year prioritisation; influencing effectively to deliver change across the department against the agreed strategic outcomes.
  • Iterate the appropriate PPM portfolio practices and lifecycle documentation, as well as building a robust assurance capability at a departmental level.
  • Promote an energised culture focused on collaborative working in the interests of the organisation and the portfolio.
  • Cultivate and manage a range of relationships and key strategic alliances with portfolio stakeholders. Lead senior stakeholders in regularly reviewing the portfolio based on a clear understanding of cost, risk and contribution to strategic objectives.
  • Develop the approach in collaboration with colleagues across the Department to ensure deliverability and alignment with wider thinking on product lifecycle / service management.
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