Benefits Realisation and Assurance Lead
- Civil Service
- Part Time
- Worthing
- 58,541 - 72,711
Job Description
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HMRC is transforming the UKs tax system through cutting-edge digital innovation and the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) Group is at the heart of that mission.
We are building high-quality digital services that will enhance the customer experience, enable real-time interactions, and make tax simpler and more intuitive for everyone. By equipping our colleagues with modern tools and technologies, we are also reshaping how we work allowing HMRC to focus its resources where they can deliver the greatest impact.
Job description
This will involve working closely with programme managers, as well as technology and commercial experts, and engaging with key stakeholders including HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service.
Person specification
- Define and lead the benefits management strategy, ensuring alignment to organisational objectives.
- Embed benefits across programme and project lifecycles, from identification through to realisation and tracking.
- Provide assurance and challenge to ensure benefits are robust, measurable, and evidence based.
- Support business cases and investment decisions, ensuring compliance with HM Treasury guidance.
- Establish governance, reporting, and audit-ready processes for benefits management across the portfolio.
- Engage and influence senior stakeholders and governance forums, driving alignment and decision-making.
- Identify and manage risks and issues impacting benefits delivery, enabling timely interventions.
- Use data and insight to measure performance and drive continuous improvement.
- Contribute to building organisational capability, including standards, guidance, and communities of practice.
Essential Criteria:
- Strong knowledge of HM Treasury Green Book, Five Case Model, and value for money principles, with experience applying these to business cases and investment decisions.
- Proven experience of benefits management across complex programmes or portfolios, including digital or technology enabled transformation.
- Ability to embed, track, and realise benefits within project delivery lifecycles, ensuring measurable outcomes.
- Experience providing robust assurance and challenge, using evidence to test assumptions and strengthen decision making.
- Professional background in either economics or portfolio management gained via qualifications, ideally at degree level or higher. Membership of either the Government Economic Service (GES) or willingness to be badged for it, or an APMG qualification in benefits/portfolio management.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills at senior levels, with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels while managing risk, performance, and competing priorities.
Desirable Criteria:
The following would be an advantage:
- Experience of leading benefits for digital, technology or IT-enabled transformation programmes.
- Experience of presenting to, or working directly with, senior governance forums or investment committees.
Further information:
For a successful candidate who would like to be badged under GES, or remain in GES, they will need to go through a promotion point board in line with HMRC processes, after the interview process.
Transitional Sites
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, its important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These sites are:
- Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage
Leeds Locations
Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRCs Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
