Head of Portfolio, Projects and Improvement- Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills-G6
Government Digital & Data -
Head of Portfolio, Projects and Improvement
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 28th July 2024
Details
Reference number
361852
Salary
£78,779 - £79,567
£78,779 per annum (pro rata). Rising to £79,567 per annum (pro-rata) on successful completion of probation. (Part-time minimum 4 days)
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Grade 6
PO
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
Digital and Operations
Type of role
Digital
Project Delivery
Other
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
This role can be based at either one of these offices: 2 Rivergate, Bristol or 23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham or Piccadilly Gate, Manchester or Agora, Nottingham
About the job
Job summary
We are hiring a Head of Portfolio, Projects and Improvement to join our Digital Change team.
The Head of Portfolio, Projects and Improvement sits within the Digital Change group and is responsible for overseeing the Portfolio of Change and the Project and Programme delivery teams across Ofsted. The team supports activity across all of Ofsted's business areas and ensures all of Ofsted's work is aligned to deliver our strategic priorities, focussing on operational efficiency of our systems and processes. The portfolio provides the delivery insight of critical change projects across Digital and Data and manages the allocation of resources and deployment to work on both small change and our most high-profile projects and programmes.
Reporting to the Deputy Director of Digital Change, the Head of Portfolio, Projects and Improvement will lead activities to ensure the correct level of reporting, rigour and standards across Ofsted's portfolio of change, so that programme, projects and services are delivered as efficiently as possible.
This is a fantastic opportunity to further your experience in Ofsted’s well-established team. The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.
Job description
Please refer to this link for further information.
Person specification
Please refer to this link for further information.
Qualifications
Suitable project qualification e.g. Prince 2, APM Practitioner or equivalent experience with a commitment to gain formal qualifications.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Strong portfolio management experience in a project and programme environment, including benefits and resource management.
- Experience of leading and developing teams working on complex projects and programmes, with a range of delivery methodologies.
- Excellent influencing and communication skills, with proven ability to secure agreement to solutions and manage the competing priorities of a range of senior stakeholders, whilst maintaining good relationships.
- Creative problem solving skills and strong decision making judgement in a portfolio, project and programme environment.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £78,779, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £21,270 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.
Ofsted is devoted to equality, diversity and inclusion. Within our Ofsted Strategy 2023-2027 we have stated that we will improve the representation of under-represented groups across the organisation and publish our progress on this annually. We are always looking to expand on our diverse workforce by recruiting candidates from varied backgrounds and differing experiences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident – Leader, we continually engage with our 5 staff networks for protected characteristics, and highlight the work of our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group. We ensure all candidates are treated with fair and open competition, with all appointments being made on merit and we use our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) to provide assurance to all candidates of this.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Application and Shortlisting:
The selection panel will assess your application based on your evidence you have provided against the essential criteria as set out in the person specification.
You will also be asked to provide information within the “Employer/Activity History” section of the application form. This information is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV setting out your career history (this may be used in the sifting process).
In the event should we receive a high number of applications, we will undertake a initial sift on the following criteria below:.
"Strong portfolio management experience in a project and programme environment, including benefits and resource management."
Applications that pass the initial sift will have a by a full sift undertaken.
Assessment and Interview:
Candidates who pass the benchmark at the shortlisting stage will be invited to an assessment (presentation) and interview where they will be assessed against a mixture of the Civil Service behaviours and the experience skills set out in section 3 of the job specification.
We will invite the most suitable candidates to attend an assessment and interview via Microsoft Teams during the week commencing Monday 12 August 2024.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
