Portfolio Delivery Partner

Government Recruitment Service; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 71,000; Full time

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Job summary

The Government Recruitment Service is recruiting for a G7 Project Delivery expert in Cardiff to join the Major Projects Portfolio office. You will help embed delivery discipline, improve reporting and governance, and support project teams to achieve objectives across multiple programmes.

You will work with senior stakeholders, drive risk management, and coordinate with NISTA on oversight for pipeline and major projects, champion best-practice planning standards, and share expertise across PDD.

Qualifications

• Experience guiding projects through the project delivery life cycle.
• Ability to identify major risks and escalate at group/department level.
• Ability to facilitate planning, risk, problem-solving and lessons learned sessions.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise to projects through the delivery life cycle toward successful completion.
• Challenge delivery performance and guide on solutions; identify major risks.
• Facilitate planning, risk, workshops and lessons learned sessions.
• Collaborate with NISTA for oversight of Major Projects Portfolio.
• Manage senior stakeholders and identify strategic solutions to complex problems.
• Ensure robust business cases and delivery strategies for major projects.

Skills

G7 Project Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Risk & Governance

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.

Portfolio Delivery Partner

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £60,732 to £71,296 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Cardiff

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 12 Oct 2026

Closing date: 28 Oct 2026

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