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About the Role

Support the development of the Parole Board's Portfolio Office by providing practical portfolio, governance, and assurance support. The role involves helping colleagues apply project and programme management expectations, use proportionate tools, and ensure effective governance and oversight.

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively with project and programme leads to establish clear governance, delivery plans, reporting arrangements, and proportionate project documentation.
Develop and maintain practical project and programme management frameworks, expectations, templates, tools, and guidance.
Provide practical advice, coaching, guidance, and hands-on support to colleagues for consistent project and programme management.
Provide assurance that programmes and projects are governed effectively with clear decision-making routes, roles, responsibilities, risk management, milestones, dependencies, and reporting arrangements.
Review portfolio information with attention to detail, identifying weak governance, controls, reporting, or delivery confidence, and escalating issues.
Provide clear reporting and assurance to the Portfolio Board and senior leaders, supporting timely decisions, prioritisation, escalation, and corrective action.
Support project initiation, governance review, and lessons learned sessions to strengthen governance and continuous improvement.
Work proactively with teams to improve the quality, consistency, and completeness of portfolio data and reporting.
Support project and programme leads in developing proportionate business cases, identifying resource and funding requirements, and reporting against budgets, benefits, and value for money commitments.
Use and analyse portfolio data to support governance, assurance, reporting, and evaluation, measuring progress, benefits, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organisational resilience.

Requirements

Experience of supporting projects, programmes, governance work, reporting, assurance activity, or organisational change.
A strong governance mindset, with the ability to understand expectations, follow processes, and help others apply them consistently and proportionately.
Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or poor-quality information and take appropriate action.
A proactive approach, with the confidence to follow up actions, identify risks early, and support timely escalation.
Ability to build positive relationships, provide practical support, and constructively challenge stakeholders using evidence and sound judgement.
Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities independently, knowing when to seek guidance or escalate.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present information clearly and draw out key messages from data, reports, or other evidence.
Experience of project, programme, or portfolio management support (Desirable).
Experience of developing or improving processes, guidance, templates, or reporting frameworks (Desirable).
Experience of governance, assurance, risk, audit, business planning, performance reporting, or benefits realisation (Desirable).
Confidence using Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, or SharePoint (Desirable).
Interest in digital tools, automation, or AI solutions that support organisational effectiveness (Desirable).

Skills

Project management
Programme management
Portfolio management
Governance
Assurance
Reporting
Data analysis
Risk management
Business planning
Performance reporting
Benefits realisation
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft SharePoint

Location

London
National

Work Type

Hybrid
Full Time
Fixed Term
Loan

Experience Level

Salary/Compensations

£32,483 - £37,265 (National)
£34,281 - £41,836 (London)

Benefits

Annual leave: 25 days on appointment, increasing to 30 days after five years’ service.
Scheme to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
Pension schemes.
Extensive training and development opportunities.
Opportunity to join employee-run networks.
Range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers, and discounts.
Alternative government childcare support schemes may be available.
Paid paternity, adoption, and maternity leave.
Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Guaranteed interview scheme for veterans.
Redeployment Interview Scheme for eligible candidates.

About the Company

The Parole Board is a disability confident recruiter.
The Parole Board welcomes applications from candidates who speak Welsh and English as part of its commitment to treat both languages on a basis of equality in the conduct of public business and administration of justice in Wales.
The Parole Board offers a flexible working system in many offices.
The Parole Board is committed to staff development.
The Parole Board has established employee-run networks for advice and support.
The Parole Board has a range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies.
The Parole Board participates in the 'Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans' initiative.
The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

Equal Opportunity

The Parole Board is a disability confident recruiter.
The Parole Board welcomes applications from candidates who speak Welsh and English as part of its commitment to treat both languages on a basis of equality in the conduct of public business and administration of justice in Wales, as far as is both appropriate and reasonable, and to reflect the community it serves.
A Great Place to Work for Veterans: The 'Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans' initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria.
Redeployment Interview Scheme: MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.