Portfolio Analyst

Requirements:

• Extensive experience analyzing risk management and delivery data
• Portfolio analysis experience and skills
• Experience engaging stakeholders at all levels, including leadership teams
• Experience forecasting risk and analyzing data in a busy role
• A proactive, self-starting approach
• Risk management practitioner qualification (essential)
• SC clearance is essential; candidates with active security clearance may be preferred
• The role can only be performed within the UK, not overseas

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of portfolio confidence reporting, giving senior leaders evidence-based assessments of delivery predictability, emerging risks, systemic constraints, trade-offs and intervention options.
• Lead portfolio governance, reporting and assurance support, setting consistent standards for assessing performance, delivery confidence, risks, dependencies, resource pressures, affordability and benefits.
• Provide independent challenge and present evidence-based recommendations, options and trade-offs at boards and senior forums.
• Provide visible leadership for portfolio analysis, governance and reporting, setting direction for how portfolio data is gathered, interpreted and used.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, delivery teams and professional communities; present insight at boards, coach and mentor colleagues, and promote best practice.
• Use evidence, insight and constructive challenge to influence prioritisation, escalation and intervention decisions.
• Analyze portfolio complexity, uncertainty and dependencies, identifying systemic risks, competing priorities and delivery constraints to help leaders adjust plans, sequencing or controls.
• Provide strategic oversight of portfolio risks, assumptions, opportunities and dependencies, assessing risk exposure, delivery confidence and organisational resilience.
• Lead portfolio pipeline analysis to inform prioritisation, sequencing and investment decisions, including evidence-based assessments of demand, capacity, strategic fit, affordability and delivery confidence.
• Lead portfolio-level analysis of outcomes, benefits and strategic value, challenging unclear, unsupported or misaligned benefits, outcomes and assumptions.

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We are seeking a Portfolio Analyst for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UKs largest producer of official statistics, covering economic, social and demographic topics. This is a six-month contract inside IR35 with hybrid working and occasional travel to our Titchfield office in Hampshire as required. The role supports delivery confidence across a portfolio of programmes and projects by bringing together information to help senior leaders assess performance, risks, dependencies, resources, benefits, outcomes and strategic alignment. We welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates, as well as veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners; eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria may be prioritised for review. The role is within scope of Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation, and quoted payment rates are gross rates subject to applicable taxes and statutory costs.

last updated 43 week of 2026