Benefits Manager (GOV.UK)

Benefits Manager (GOV.UK) 6-month contract Outside IR35 Market Rates Remote Working

The Opportunity

We are supporting a major government department in the appointment of an experienced Benefits Manager to play a pivotal role in a high-profile transformation programme.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a high-impact government programme, ensuring that strategic investments deliver measurable and lasting value; responsible for leading the development, governance and delivery of the programme's benefits case, taking it from Outline Business Case (OBC) through to Full Business Case (FBC) and into live delivery.

You will work across the department and its Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs), strengthening benefit attribution, ownership and valuation, while ensuring that cashable, non-cashable and qualitative benefits are clearly defined, evidenced and realised.

This role will suit a seasoned benefits professional with deep experience operating within complex, multi-stakeholder government environments.

Skills and Experience

• Proven track record leading benefits management across large-scale transformation programmes
• Strong experience working within UK Government departments, ALBs, or similarly complex public sector environments
• Demonstrable experience developing and refining business cases across OBC to FBC stages
• Expertise in benefits identification, attribution, valuation and realisation methodologies
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, ownership models and reporting structures
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across senior and distributed teams

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maturation of the programme's benefits case from OBC through to FBC and into BAU
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the department and ALBs
• Identify, validate and refine benefits, including ALB-specific variations and dependencies
• Facilitate workshops to define, challenge and quantify monetisable and cashable benefits
• Establish clear benefit ownership models, ensuring accountability sits appropriately across the organisation
• Develop and maintain key artefacts including the Benefits Realisation Plan, benefits register and reporting dashboards
• Define benefit measures, KPIs and tracking methodologies aligned to change and evaluation activity
• Produce high-quality reporting, briefings and governance papers to support senior decision-making
• Lead the development of robust valuation models, forecasts and supporting evidence for FBC submission
• Implement processes to track benefits, validate delivery and manage risks through to BAU
• Drive continuous improvement in benefits management practices across the programme
• Identify opportunities for additional benefits and ensure long-term realisation is Embedded post-delivery

NB

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (two to four weeks lead-time).

Applications

Please contact Edward Laing here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology.