Transformational Leadership:

• Lead CDIO's shift from project-led to service and product-aligned, agile, and continuous delivery.
• Accountable for achieving the target maturity state and capabilities of the CDIO Service Portfolio organisation by 2026.
• Embed Service Portfolio Management as part of the CDIO future Operating Model, balancing delivery and transformation initiatives.

Strategic Service Portfolio Management:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of CDIO services (development, live, retired), ensuring the right mix to meet business outcomes.
• Evaluate, select, prioritise, and review services to align with strategic objectives and deliver value.
• Accountable for Enterprise Service Portfolio Management (SPM) practice maturity and standards, aligning with HMRC Change Delivery.

Demand & Resource Optimisation:

• Ensure demand is understood and effectively managed through strategic resource allocation.
• Meet business outcomes within agreed timelines, budget, and customer satisfaction.
• Enhance CDIO's approach to managing supply vs. demand across the end-to-end service lifecycle.
• Improve how supply and demand requirements are measured to enable data-driven decision-making.

Delivery Oversight & Orchestration:

• Provide oversight for the integration and maturity of relevant portfolio and project capabilities, including delivery orchestration across multiple product/platform teams.
• Accountable for the effective demand management, tracking, and delivery of hundreds of in-flight IT change initiatives.

Robust Governance & Assurance:

• Establish and maintain effective governance across the CDIO Portfolio, ensuring decisions are made at the right time and with appropriate scrutiny.
• Support the organisation in meeting business case assurance requirements.

• Champion and embed the CDIO Operating Model for Service Portfolio Management and the ITILv4 practice of Portfolio Management.

Financial & Corporate Impact:

• Accountable for the future budget of the CDIO Service Portfolio Function (cost code ownership).
• Provide key input into the design and final approval of the CDIO Service Portfolio function's future operating model.

People Leadership & Influencing:

• Team Leadership : Line management of up to 6 G6 Portfolio Managers, with a future team of 25, involving recruitment and capability building.
• Matrix Management: Oversight of resources across the wider resource management community.
• Enterprise Influence : Lead strategic alignment with senior stakeholders to balance supply and demand.
• Change Management: Champion change, manage stakeholder views, and embed organisational shifts.
• Board-Level Engagement: Work closely with SROs and Programme Directors to drive executive-level decisions.

Person specification

• Proven experience leading portfolios of change activity within large, complex organisations, with a deep understanding of its principles and practices.
• A strong track record of managing and maintaining overall accountability for portfolio delivery, ensuring activities are on track for scope, timeline, budget, and quality. This includes monitoring performance and realising non-financial benefits across a diverse portfolio.
• Ability to enable strategic change by implementing robust mechanisms, controls, and effective governance to deliver major change programmes and business objectives. You'll ensure appropriate planning, resource allocation, and decision-making with appropriate scrutiny.

Relevant Professional Qualifications:

• Possess Management of Portfolios ( MoP ) and ITIL v4 Foundation certifications.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £81,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

For benefits please see attached candidate pack

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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For selection process please see attached candidate pack

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This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Robert Gavin
• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information
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Attachments
SCS1 - Deputy Director Service Portfolio - Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1093kB)