Portfolio Business Partner

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Reference number

461484

Salary

£62,109 \- £72,852
National pay locations: Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester: £62,109 \- £68,320

London pay locations: Croydon, Westminster: £66,229 \- £72,852
GBP

Job grade

Grade 7### Contract type

Permanent### Business area

HO \- Chief Operating Officer Group### Type of role

Project Delivery### Working pattern

Full\-time, Compressed hours### Number of jobs available

1
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

Location
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Croydon, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, WestminsterAbout the job
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Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter\-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Chief Operating Officer Group works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The group is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.

The Performance, Risk, Assurance and Governance (PRAG) function provides expert governance, assurance, insight and capability\-building across the Home Office Change Portfolio. The portfolio contains a diverse and complex set of transformation and change programmes, including Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP), Department Major Programmes (DMP) and Home Office Critical (HOC) initiatives, with significant strategic and operational impact.

This is an exciting opportunity to join PRAG as a Portfolio Business Partner (PBP), you will act as a strategic advisor, providing challenge, insight and expert guidance to programmes across the Change Portfolio. You will help ensure that initiatives deliver maximum value, maintain delivery confidence, and align to departmental objectives. The role reports to the Head of PRAG Governance \& Business Partnering and requires high levels of autonomy, judgement and influence.

The G7 Portfolio Business Partner will act as the strategic interface between the central Portfolio function and a defined selection of major programmes drawn from the HO’s delivery landscape, including those within the GMPP, DMP or HOC. Assigned to specific programmes, the postholder will provide targeted, high\-quality support that strengthens strategic alignment, improves delivery confidence, and enhances the efficiency of planning, governance and performance management across their programme areas. Operating as a trusted advisor, they will bring clarity, challenge and insight to senior leaders, ensuring that investment decisions, delivery risks and portfolio dependencies are well understood and proactively led.

To ensure consistent, scalable and proportionate support across the Portfolio, the G7 Portfolio Business Partner will deliver one of the 3 tier service offers depending on the programmes scale, complexity, risk profile and strategic importance. Across all tiers, the G7 Portfolio Business Partner will ensure that the programmes receive the right level of strategic support at the right time to deliver outcomes effectively and contribute to departmental priorities.

Job description

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide expert project delivery advice to GMPP, DMP and HOC programmes, ensuring robust planning, budgeting and risk management.


• Identify early warning signs through assurance and insight, supporting programmes to maintain or improve delivery confidence.


• Act as a trusted advisor to Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) and programme leads, participating as a member of programme governance boards.


• Serve as a single point of contact for all PRAG services, brokering tailored support, insight and solutions.


• Work closely with the Assurance lead to ensure programmes meet internal and external assurance and approvals requirements Commercial Authority Board (CAB), Technical Design Authority (TDA), National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), Cabinet Office (CO), His Majesties Treasury (HMT), aligning perspectives and ensuring proportionate, effective assurance.


• Provide briefing and recommendations for investment decisions at Investment Committee, DG Stocktakes and with the Chief Portfolio Officer.


• Develop strong, transparent relationships across the Home Office, government departments and external partners to enable timely and effective decisions.


• Influence senior stakeholders to plan with realism, ensuring credible and fully funded business cases, plans and benefits profiles.

Working pattern

This role is available on a full\-time basis with the option of compressed hours working.

Travel

You may be required to visit other Home Office locations according to business needs.

Person specification

Essential criteria

You must demonstrate:

• Experience working on or supporting large, complex projects or programmes.


• Ability to influence and lead outside formal line‑management structures.


• Understanding of risks and issues across large\-scale project delivery.


• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across government.


• Excellent communication skills, with ability to convey complex messages clearly and constructively.


• Understanding of project delivery disciplines including planning, risk, dependency and benefits management.


• Ability to interpret and present insight using business intelligence tools.

Desirable Criteria:

• Familiarity with business case development and analysis.


• Experience working within complex or public\-sector governance environments.

Qualifications

One of the following (or equivalent) foundation\-level qualifications:
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PRINCE2

• APM

• Better Business Cases

• Management of Risk

• Management of Portfolios

• Managing Successful Programmes### Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing


• Working Together


• Leadership


• Making Effective Decisions

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits
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In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%.


• In\-year reward scheme for one\-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.


• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.


• Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.


• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home\-based working. This is a non\-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.


• See more of our benefits on our careers website.

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Things you need to know
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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.### Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

• Application – by 18th June 2026\.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

• CV


• Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words).


• Evidence of the Behaviour \- Communicating and Influencing (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour).

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.

For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

2\. Sift – 22nd June 2026\.

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement, CV and the Behaviour \- Communicating and Influencing, as listed in the advert.

Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Lead Behaviour \- Communicating andInfluencing. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of all the remaining elements submitted (CV and Personal Statement ). Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.

3\. Interview – 13th July 2026\.

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert

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