Portfolio Delivery Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 402751

**Salary**:

- £40,415 - £44,480
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Fixed term
Loan

**Length of employment**:

- Up to two years with a view to permanency

**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1EP : Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8FT : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE4 5SP : Didcot, South East England, OX11 0DF

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
**Background: The UK Space Agency**:
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) and provides technical advice on the government’s space strategy, supporting the UK space sector to deliver the government’s vision.

Space is a part of everyday life. Satellites underpin our national economy, from agriculture and banking to aviation and shipping, and support our national security. Space science provides critical data to understand and address global challenges such as climate change, while missions to explore our solar system unite nations and advance humanity’s horizons.

We support a thriving space sector in the UK, which generates an annual income of £18.9 billion and employs 52,028 people across the country.

Through our portfolio of programmes and projects, we encourage the development of national space capabilities and are an early-stage investor in space research and development. We also promote the UK space sector’s interests and achievements; make connections to join up industry and academia; and represent the UK in international space programmes.

We have a powerful global voice, partnering with institutions across the world, including the European Space Agency.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We have an inclusive culture to make UK Space Agency a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
**Assurance**
- Working with DSIT’s Departmental Assurance Coordinator and the Agency’s Corporate Assurance team to develop, and maintain, a coordinated plan of appropriate, proportionate assurance reviews of the portfolio’s work elements, integrated with the Agency’s overall corporate Assurance plans.
- Ensuring that all delivery initiatives have a proportionate assurance plan, that aligns to the overall integrated plan.
- Providing guidance and support to delivery teams in planning their assurance reviews.
- Recording, tracking and assuring the achievement of all portfolio activity related assurance actions and recommendations.
- Providing the Head of Portfolio Management, Delivery Board, Audit Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), and the DSIT Departmental Assurance Coordinator with regular, insightful reports on achievement of portfolio assurance actions and recommendations.
- Supporting the maintenance of, and championing, the Agency’s Assurance Strategy and Assurance Framework.
- Reviewing business cases and providing guidance to business case owners, specifically on the Management Case.
- Contributing to the Governance Statement in the Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts, summarising the processes, plans and findings of assurance initiatives.
- Ad hoc support of internal and external Assurance interventions.

**Risk management**
- Identification, articulation, scoring, and reporting on portfolio level risks.
- Managing the portfolio risk register, ensuring management of portfolio level risks, opportunities and issues is aligned with Agency risk appetite and risk management approaches.
- Carrying out analysis of risks (and their management) across the full portfolio to:

- Identify aggregate and generic risks requiring management at portfolio level.
- Identify trends and gaps in risks and risk management practices across the whole portfolio.
- Coordinate the management of aggregate, generic, and escalated risks.
- Ensuring the appropriate use of risk, issue, and opportunity tools and processes across the portfolio and providing guidance where needed.
- Planning and facilitating risk reviews and deep dives.
- Providing the Head of Portfolio Management, Delivery Board, Audit Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC and DSIT Departmental Assurance Coordinator with regular, insightful reports on