Specialist Advisor, Portfolio & Insight

Vacancy Portfolio Performance & Insight Specialist Advisor Role  Directorate National Operations Team Portfolio Office Location Flexible Grade/Salary range 06: £42,662 - £46,662 Working pattern Full time - 37 hours per week Working hours 37.00 Contract type Permanent Welsh Language level A2 – Elementary Closing date 25/10/2026

Are you passionate about turning complex data into clear insight that drives real organisational impact? As our Portfolio Performance & Insight Specialist Advisor, you'll play a pivotal role in helping Natural Resources Wales understand, monitor and improve delivery of its Corporate Plan and strategic priorities. Using your analytical expertise, you'll transform information from across the organisation into meaningful performance insights that support decision-making at the highest levels.

Working within the Portfolio Office, you'll develop and enhance performance reporting, dashboards and management information, helping leaders track progress, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and make evidence-based decisions. You'll collaborate with colleagues from across NRW, influencing delivery through insight, innovation and continuous improvement, while ensuring senior leaders have the information they need to achieve positive outcomes for Wales's people, places and environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced analyst, performance professional or portfolio specialist who enjoys solving complex challenges, working across organisational boundaries and making a visible contribution to strategic decision-making. In return, you'll have the opportunity to shape how organisational performance is measured, reported and understood across NRW.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

Interviews willtake place on w/c 09/11/2026 through Microsoft Teams.

At Natural Resources Wales (NRW), we play a vital role in protecting, managing and enhancing Wales's natural resources so they can continue to benefit people, nature and the economy for generations to come. From tackling the climate and nature emergencies to managing flood risk, improving environmental quality and supporting sustainable land and water management, our work has a lasting impact on communities across Wales.

The Portfolio Office sits at the heart of NRW's strategic delivery, providing the oversight, intelligence and assurance needed to help the organisation achieve its Corporate Plan priorities. We work across every part of NRW, bringing together information, insight and expertise to support effective decision-making and drive continuous improvement.

Joining our team means becoming part of a collaborative and supportive environment where your ideas, expertise and insight will be valued. You'll work with colleagues from across the organisation, influence strategic outcomes and contribute to work that makes a real difference to Wales's environment and future wellbeing. Whether you're helping improve the way we measure performance or providing the insight that informs key decisions, you'll be part of a team that enables NRW to deliver its ambitions with confidence.

• Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of portfolio performance monitoring arrangements that enable NRW to track delivery of corporate priorities, Well-being Objectives, outcomes and benefits across the Corporate Plan and associated portfolios.
• Analyse, interpret and integrate complex information from business plans, service plans, programmes, projects, risk reports,…