Future Supplier Partnerships Business Case Manager

The Civil Service must have the skills needed to support the delivery of the government's priorities. Training in the Civil Service needs to support the development of skills for 550,000 civil servants. It must support these civil servants in improving their performance in role as well as advancing their career development, whether they are in central policy roles, front line delivery, or any number of arm's length bodies.

Government Skills was created in 2020 to improve the coherence and quality of learning and development in government through better training, knowledge and networks. Ministers have now asked us to make an ambitious Spending Review bid to transform the operating model for skills in government, delivered under The National School of Government and Public Services.

As part of this transformational change of delivering training, we are reviewing the balance between training procured externally and design and/or delivered internally in the civil service. We expect this balance to shift more towards in-house design and/or delivery as we move away from the current approach of outsourcing to external training providers.

The Learning Infrastructure Team is responsible for three enabling workstreams under the National School of Government and Public Services Portfolio. Between them, these workstreams cover the current, transitional and future infrastructure to support centralised training for Civil Servants.

Role Purpose

Your role is to design, implement, and manage the governance frameworks and reporting cycles that provide transparency to the Government Skills Portfolio Board and other senior boards. You will ensure that as we transition to a new way of delivering commercial and technical infrastructure that provides centralised training model for 550,000 Civil Servants, every decision is evidenced, and every risk is accounted for.

You will lead a small, high-performing team to maintain the "single source of truth" for the project, ensuring that our infrastructure deliverycovering commercial and digital workstreamsremains robustly assured and audit-ready.

Key Responsibilities

In line with the Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF), your responsibilities include:

• Business Case Development: Lead and organise the preparation of all elements of building the business case from a varied stakeholder group contribution, ensure all necessary governance completed, and all supporting documentation is provided
• Reporting & Data Analysis: Lead the production of high-quality monthly progress returns for the Government Skills Portfolio Board, the Government People Group PMO and Project Profession Authority. You will analyse and challenge workstream data to ensure reporting is accurate and honest.
• Production of reports and presentations: Creation of and contributions to slide decks, briefing and business cases
• Secretariat Leadership: Oversee the HEO and EO in providing professional secretariat support for Board-level forums, including managing agendas and drafting high-level briefing papers.
• Risk & Issue Facilitation: Coordinate the proactive identification and tracking of risks and dependencies across the project workstreams, ensuring they are integral to the governance cycle.
• Change Control: Design and manage the change control process, tracking any shifts in scope, cost, or timelines within the infrastructure project to maintain baseline integrity.
• Knowledge & Assurance: Promote a culture of continuous improvement by facilitating "lessons learned" sessions and ensuring all project artefacts meet future audit requirements.

Person Specification (PDCF Competencies)

Technical Competencies

• Business Case Development (Working): The ability to prepare, develop, commission and update business cases to justify the initiation and continuation of projects in terms of benefits, value for money and risk.
• Assurance (Practitioner): Experience in planning and managing reviews to provide confidence that outcomes can be delivered within constraints.
• Digital and Data (Practitioner): Ability to leverage digital tools and data analytics to improve reporting efficiency and inform decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement (Working): Capability to communicate with senior stakeholders, accounting for their levels of influence and interest.

Additional information:

Cabinet Office policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%. Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.