Benefits Manager - 31116

Environment Agency; England; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Environment Agency seeks an experienced Benefits Manager to join its Transformation Portfolio Office. In this role, you will lead benefits management practices, ensuring that initiatives align with the agency's strategic objectives. The position offers opportunities for flexible working and contributing to significant environmental improvements.

Qualifications

• Subject matter expert in Benefits Management.
• Experience operating as a benefits manager in a PMO environment.
• Strong communication and influencing ability.

Responsibilities

• Setting standards for benefits and value management.
• Helping teams identify and validate project benefits.
• Responding to flood/environmental incidents as needed.

Skills

Benefits Management

Project Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Influencing Skills

Job description

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Job Description

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is for you! We're fully committed to being an inclusive employer. ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies.

Job Description

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is for you! We're fully committed to being an inclusive employer. ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies.

We're looking for an experienced Benefits Manager. You will be an important part of our Transformation Portfolio Office (TPO), working with colleagues and project and programme managers across our portfolio, setting the standards for benefits and value management and then helping to embed them. You will help our teams to identify, value and validate their project benefits, as well as being a key part of the TPO management team, helping to set the direction for maturing and improving our ways of working.

The role sits within the Transformation Portfolio Office within the Service Transformation team, Strategy Transformation and Assurance Directorate.

Our vision is to enable the Environment Agency to deliver the right transformation in the right way, at the right time, with the right people.

Our purpose is to:

• Invest in the optimum blend of initiatives to achieve EA2030 and make the Environment Agency more effective/efficient
• Deliver transformation according to good practice and Government-mandated standards
• Improve wellbeing for everyone by ensuring that the reasons for change are communicated and understood, change is well managed and sequenced in a coherent, balanced way
• Have the right people in place with the appropriate professional skills required to deliver transformation.
  
  
  

Responding to flood/environmental incidents is a central part of what we do. You'll be required to have an incident role and be available to respond to incidents, or help provide business continuity during an incident. This may attract an additional payment; full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to enable you in your incident role.

The team

The role sits within the Transformation Portfolio Office within the Service Transformation team, Strategy Transformation and Assurance Directorate.

Experience/skills Required

Essential skills: We are looking for someone motivated who is organised, dynamic and willing to share their knowledge.

The successful applicant will need to:

• Be a subject matter expert in Benefits Management and demonstrate excellent knowledge of what best practice in a project / programme / portfolio management office (PMO) environment looks like both in theory and in practice
• Demonstrate a track record of operating as a benefits manager at PMO, portfolio or programme level, where benefits management practices are embedded into practice and successfully used in the decision-making process
• Communicate well, gain respect and co-operation throughout the business by showing the right behaviours, influencing project and programme managers, providing constructive challenge and support to help our projects to deliver and embed successfully.
  
  
  

Desirable skills: Experience of applying Managing Benefits and Management of Value (MoV) or similar approaches.

Contact and additional information

In this national role, you can work in any one of 50 offices across England. We encourage blended home and office working. Some travel will be required to attend meetings and training.

Interviews will take place from 3 July 2025 via MS Teams.

For further details please contact: Talent Acquisition Coordination Team: [e-mail]

Further similar roles, either permanent or temporary, will be available across the organisation. If candidates consent to be on the reserve list, we will hold your details for 6 months and we may offer you an alternative post.

Competence 1

Programme and Project Management

Description

Definition: Plans and manages projects and programmes to achieve a set of Environment Agency objectives cost-effectively.

Question: Tell us about your benefits management knowledge and experience, and how and in what kind of environment you have applied it, with an example.

Competence 2

Delivers Results Through Others

Description

Definition: Harnesses the team to deliver results on time, to required standards and in line with organisational processes and procedures.

Question: Tell us about how you have delivered an effective project & programme management or benefits management approach / service through others.

Competence 3

Takes Decisions and Solves Problems

Description

Definition: Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.

Question: Tell us about a situation requiring you to solve a complex problem, how you did and what the outcome was.

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

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