Digital Portfolio and Delivery Lead in Aberdeen

On behalf of Great British Energy, we are looking for a Digital Portfolio and Delivery Lead (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based on site in Aberdeen. Great British Energy will be a publicly owned, operationally independent energy company, designed to drive clean energy deployment, boost energy independence, create jobs and ensure UK taxpayers, billpayers and communities reap the benefits of clean, secure, homegrown energy.

As a Digital Portfolio and Delivery Lead, your main responsibilities will be:

• Take prioritised demand from the digital front door and define it as deliverable work - scope, outcome, business owner, cost and timeline.
• Plan and run delivery, whether executed by ICS, a supplier or internally, owning milestones, dependencies and critical path through to acceptance.
• Manage supplier and ICS delivery against agreed scope, cost and timescale, including change control, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Track delivery against estimate, and evidence where the ICS interface constrains it, to inform the target IT operating model and the separation case.
• Provide delivery status, risks and spend into the portfolio reporting to the CDIO and the Digital Investment Governance Committee.
• Establish delivery standards and templates proportionate to a small organisation, covering initiation, stage gates, reporting and closure.
• Transition delivered work into business ownership and support, capture benefits and lessons learned, and hand over a running delivery function to the permanent team.

Essential:

• Track record delivering digital and IT change end to end, from definition through to acceptance and transition into support.
• Experience managing delivery by third parties - suppliers, shared services or managed service providers - including change control and sign-off.
• Able to establish portfolio and delivery standards proportionate to a small organisation, rather than importing a heavyweight method.
• Confident reporting delivery status, risk and spend to an executive audience and an investment committee.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident: As a Disability Confident employer, GBE encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review.

Armed Forces Covenant: As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, GBE welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs.