Portfolio Delivery Partner

Government Recruitment Service; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Belfast is seeking a G7 Project Delivery expert to join the Major Projects Portfolio office within the Project Delivery Division. You will support strategic oversight of BIST major projects, embed delivery discipline and improve governance and reporting.

You will work across multiple projects, challenge delivery performance, identify risks, and collaborate with NISTA and senior stakeholders to ensure projects deliver their intended benefits.

Qualifications

• G7 Project Delivery expertise with ability to guide projects through delivery life cycle.
• Ability to challenge performance and identify major risks at group/department level.
• Experience in facilitating planning, risk management and lessons-learning sessions.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise to projects through the delivery life cycle to achieve successful completion.
• Challenge delivery performance; advise on solutions and identify major risks at group/department level.
• Facilitate planning, risk, problem-solving and lessons-learned sessions and workshops.
• Collaborate with NISTA to ensure oversight of pipeline projects.
• Manage senior stakeholders and identify strategic solutions.
• Advise and support robust business cases and delivery strategies.
• Coordinate with partners to identify and track group dependencies.
• Champion best-practice planning standards, tools and processes.
• Build external networks to access best-practice.
• Collaborate with PDD teams to provide best guidance.

Job description

This role sits within the Major Projects Portfolio (MPP) as part of the Project Delivery Division (PDD). The team operates as a central project delivery and change management function with strategic oversight of Department for Business, Science, Innovation and Trade (BIST) major projects and project delivery best practice.

This is an exciting time to join the Major Projects Portfolio office, which supports an expanding portfolio of projects and programmes delivering on ministerial priorities, following the department settlement in the Spending Review. The Major Projects Portfolio office plays a vital role in enabling strategic alignment, improving delivery confidence and supporting senior decision-makers with high-quality insights and assurance.

The team also support the projects as Portfolio Delivery Partners (PDP), where we serve as subject matter experts, critical friends, and providing support to help projects to deliver their agreed benefits. We ensure projects are set up for success and help to remove blockers, broker, support and challenge.

As a PDP you will work across multiple projects and programmes, helping to embed delivery discipline, improve reporting and governance and support project teams in achieving their objectives.

We are looking for a G7 Project Delivery expert. More information about what is required for competency in a G7 Project Delivery role can be found in theGovernment’s Project Delivery Capability Framework.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Providing expertise to projects, advising and guiding them through the project delivery life cycle and towards successful project completion.


• Challenging project delivery performance, advising on solutions and ensuring major risks are identified at Group/Departmental level.


• Facilitating solutions to aid project delivery, such as planning, risk, problem-solving and lessons learned sessions and workshops.


• Working with the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) to ensure oversight and appropriate treatment for those projects that are classed as part of the Governments Major Projects Portfolio, including pipeline projects.


• Managing senior level stakeholders and working strategically to identify solutions to complex problems.


• Working across the division to advise, assist and consult, as appropriate, to ensure the business cases and management (delivery) strategies of the Major projects and programmes are robust and set up for success.


• Working alongside other project delivery business partners in ensuring group dependencies are identified and tracked.


• Working to an agreed vision and standard for project delivery, and to champion the use of best practice project planning standards, tools, and processes.


• Building and maintaining external networks to access and further develop technical and professional best practice.


• Working with the other teams within PDD to ensure the best advice and guidance to assist the major projects programmes with delivery, can be achieved.

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Portfolio Delivery Partner

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £60,732 to £71,296 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Belfast

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 12 Oct 2026

Closing date: 28 Oct 2026

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