Portfolio Benefits Lead

Location: National

Closing Date: 19th February 2026

Interviews: w/c 2nd March 2026

Grade: G7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: *London: £63,343 - £70,725 *National: £58,511 - £65,329.

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of Roles: 1

*Please read the salary Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the page for more information.

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Benefits Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative delivery team

The Technology Service Delivery (TSD) Programme Management Office (PMO) is the central hub for supporting and enabling successful project delivery across TSD. We provide guidance, standardised processes and consistent governance to ensure all projects are aligned, efficient and effective. Roles can work centrally to provide support across all TSD projects, or be embedded within a project team to provide specialist advice and support for day-to-day delivery.

Our team enhances project understanding and insight, giving leadership clearer visibility of project progress, risks and overall performance. By streamlining project practices and fostering collaboration, we help drive better outcomes, save time and optimise resources, contributing to TSD and wider Justice Digital strategic goals.

You will form part of a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering a range of outcomes in support of the wider Technology Services teams.

The TSD function is responsible for delivering projects and work packages relating to the deployment of new technology or services across the MoJ estate, transition of services from supplier to supplier or in-house and exiting of services from incumbent suppliers. You will play a key role within the team whose deliverables include:

• Identifying and documenting existing and future Technology, Service and Security landscapes and Strategies
• Identifying and preparing market-ready requirements
• The development of Business Cases
• Supporting Commercial and Financial processes
• Supporting Service Design and Architecture
• The Transition of services from supplier to supplier or in-house
• Deployment of technology or services across the MoJ estate
• Exit of services from incumbent suppliers
• Tracking and reporting on Finance forecast and spend; and
• Business and Stakeholder engagement and communication.

The Portfolio Benefits Lead is a fantastic opportunity to work with senior and cross-government stakeholders to enable effective decision-making and support the approval of business cases, submissions to investment boards and assurance reviews.

You will lead the TSD central benefits management function to ensure the successful delivery and maximisation of benefits from TSD projects. Outcomes that you will drive include

• Benefits realisation across TSD projects is maximised.
• Benefits management is embedded in TSD's day-to-day operations.
• Best practices, innovations, and lessons learned in relation to benefits management are adopted across TSD.
• Adequate supply of suitably skilled central benefits management resources against demand.
• Benefits management delivery in TSD meets quality standards, including alignment with Justice Digital and wider MoJ approaches.

You will identify, quantify, and track the realisation of benefits that justify investment in a project or programme. You will ensure a suitable approach to benefits measurement and realisation is undertaken, and provide assurance that the identified benefits can be achieved.

You will be a critical friend to Project Managers, providing expert advice, promoting best practices across all TSD, and driving continuous improvement for successful project execution.

The role includes line management and mentoring PMO team members.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving benefits realisation; Accountable for optimising the return on investment from projects by actively identifying, managing and tracking the realisation of intended benefits. This involves setting clear KPIs, monitoring progress, and implementing corrective actions where necessary. Responsible for the delivery of benefits management activities in high complexity projects.
• Embedding benefits management: Accountable for integrating benefits management into TSDs and wider Technology Services’ daily operations, ensuring it is not a standalone function but a core component of project delivery. This includes responsibility for developing and implementing processes and procedures, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and championing benefits management across TSD.
• Promoting best practice & innovation: Champions the adoption of best practice, encourages innovation, and facilitates the capture and sharing of lessons learned across TSD and Technology Services to continuously improve benefits management capabilities.
• Resource management: Manages central benefits management resources to ensure an adequate supply of skilled personnel. This includes planning, sourcing and training/upskilling.
• Maintaining quality standards: Ensures that benefits management delivery aligns with wider organisational standards and best practices, maintaining high quality and consistency across all projects. This involves regular monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Business case: Assists in preparing and updating the benefits section of the business case, working with specialists as needed.
• Benefits mapping: Coordinates workshops to map benefits and ensures alignment. Circulates the benefits map for agreement and approval. Works with various stakeholders to validate and test dependencies.
• Digital and data: Collects and shares data in line with data standards. Uses digital tools to track and report on benefits realisation. Analyses data to assess the impact of project outcomes and improve benefit delivery.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team, please read on and apply!

Benefits

• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• Significant experience in benefits management, including:
  • leading project or programme benefits management in large complex projects or programmes
  • Project and programme delivery management using the AGILE and PRINCE2 methodologies (or equivalent) for large projects and programmes.

• Proven track record of cultivating strong relationships with all stakeholder levels, including senior leadership.
• Evidence of strong benefit, analytical and data skills across the benefits management lifecycle within large and/or complex projects or programmes.
• Evidenced experience of coaching individuals within PMO and Project Delivery roles.
• One or more industry recognised Benefits Management qualifications at practitioner/advanced level, such as
  • APMG Managing Benefits Practitioner
• One or more of the following project/programme methodology qualifications:
  • APM Project Management Qualification
  • APM Chartered Project Professional
  • MSP Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
  • Agile Project Management Practitioner
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner
  • PMI Project Management Professional

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and a Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement* (no more than 750 words) should highlight your relevant experience and skills, supported by clear examples of work you have undertaken. It must address the criteria listed below. Please structure your response using a separate paragraph for each.

• Significant experience in benefits management, including:
  • leading project or programme benefits management in large complex projects or programmes
  • Project and programme delivery management using the AGILE and PRINCE2 methodologies (or equivalent) for large projects and programmes.
• Proven track record of cultivating strong relationships with all stakeholder levels, including senior leadership.
• Evidenced experience of coaching individuals within PMO and Project Delivery roles.
• Evidence of strong benefit analytical and data skills across the benefits management lifecycle within large and/or complex projects or programmes.
• One or more industry recognised Benefits Management qualifications at practitioner/advanced level, such as
  • APMG Managing Benefits Practitioner

*Personal Statements which have not adhered to the application process of providing examples to the points above may be rejected at the sift.

A diverse panel will review your application against the criteria listed above. Please note applications submitted without a Personal Statement will not be considered.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement

Application Guidance

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

Candidates who meet the required standard will be invited to a one-hour panel interview conducted via video conference.

Please note: Candidates who are successful at the sift stage will be required to prepare and deliver a presentation as part of the interview process. Full instructions and further details will be provided in the invitation to interview. The Presentation will assess the Leadership Behaviour.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift on the below criteria will be conducted.

• One or more industry recognised Benefits Management qualifications at practitioner/advanced level, such as APMG Managing Benefits Practitioner

If you are unsuccessful in the role you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a lower-level role, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without requiring a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of 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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions, which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk