Digital Portfolio Analyst

Civil Service World; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

The Government Digital Service is recruiting a Digital Portfolio Analyst to support planning, tracking delivery and reporting progress across a digital portfolio. You’ll work across teams to identify risks, support governance, and help prioritise activities to safeguard delivery and rise to strategic objectives.

You will produce briefing papers and planning data for senior leadership, promote best practices in processes and templates, and help embed Agile ways of working across teams and DSIT.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating a digital portfolio with planning and reporting across items.
• Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks and mitigations.
• Ability to produce concise briefing papers and governance documentation.
• Experience applying governance and assurance processes.
• Understanding of Agile methods and iterative improvement.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage a digital portfolio; support planning, tracking delivery and reporting progress.
• Manage delivery risks and issues; identify, mitigate, escalate to safeguard delivery outcomes.
• Help leadership understand performance by producing briefing papers and governance materials.
• Help teams follow governance and delivery processes.
• Support prioritisation of all activities in the portfolio.
• Drive continuous improvements by sharing best practices on processes and tools.
• Advocate PMO functions across the business and DSIT.

Skills

Planning & delivery tracking

Portfolio reporting

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Agile principles

Job description

Digital Portfolio Analyst

Location Bristol, Manchester

Job grade Senior Executive Officer

Contract type Permanent

Working pattern Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Salary £45,740 - £50,835

Closing date Sun 15 Nov 2026

Reference 489625

Profession GDS - Product Strategy, Planning & Performance

Government Digital Service

As a Digital Portfolio Analyst You’ll

• help to co-ordinate and manage a digital portfolio by supporting planning, tracking delivery and reporting progress on all portfolio items


• manage delivery risks and issues across the portfolio, identifying, mitigating, and escalating as appropriate to safeguard delivery outcomes


• help leadership understand performance and related risks by producing key documentation and reports, including briefing papers, planning data, and governance materials


• help teams to follow governance and delivery processes


• support the prioritisation of all activities in the portfolio


• support teams and leadership in driving continuous improvements by identifying, developing and sharing best practices on processes, tools and templates and its implementation


• act as advocate for PMO functions across the business, promoting best practice internally and the wider DSIT

Person specification

We’re Interested In People Who

• can support planning activity across teams which would align with the organisational strategic objectives


• has experience with tracking delivery and reporting progress across portfolio


• has experience of analysing data and presenting insights and evidence in clear way, using the most appropriate medium for the targeted audience


• can develop and build effective stakeholder relationships


• understands, follows and can guide teams through an appropriate governance and assurance processes


• are able to apply in practice Agile methodology principles such as incremental and iterative ways of working, especially when implementing new processes, tools or frameworks across teams

Job Summary

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

• joining up public sector services


• harnessing the power of AI for the public good


• strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure


• elevating leadership and investing in talent


• funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation


• committing to transparency and driving accountability

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need.

Former DSIT recruitment campaigns are continuing as usual, but candidates should be aware that following the Government’s announcement on the changes to some civil service departments, roles will be subject to the machinery of government moves and will ultimately be in one of the new departments. We will provide more information if you are selected for a role. This work remains of high importance to the civil service, and we thank you for your continued interest.