JOB SUMMARY

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Companies House Digital and Technology Directorate!
We are looking for talented Agile Delivery Managers with a software delivery and digital services background to help our Agile Scrum teams develop and deliver quality digital services for our millions of users.

The two successful candidates will have opportunities to join our newly formed Service team as well as one of our Data team.

• The Service team will focus on iterating and improving live services.
• The Data team are currently focusing on moving data across from existing sources to a Cloud Data Platform and building analytical data products for use across Companies House.

Both teams are new to Agile, Scrum, and Lean ways of working, requiring coaching and mentoring to apply the most appropriate tools and techniques to ensure an effective delivery environment.
The role provides an opportunity to contribute to the success of existing and future services provided by Companies House.
You’ll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in government and help shape our services to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK’s business landscape.
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This rewarding leadership role is ideal for someone who is passionate about working with people and is motivated by successful delivery in a complex environment. You are someone who cares about and can exemplify Civil Service values, in a diverse, ethical, and positive working culture.
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.
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JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Agile Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of products and services within your team.
You will lead one of our Agile Scrum teams, acting as a true leader to facilitate collaboration, decision-making, effective planning of work, clarity on vision, scope, goals and roadmap, conflicting priorities and conflict resolution.
You are instrumental in taking the Product vision and making it happen, devising the right team and ways of working, and showing exceptional leadership and communication skills.
An Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for the performance of the team.

At this role level, you will:

• Be an active member of our community of practice, where you will share best practice, insight and support with your peers.
• Lead from the front using your Agile expertise and the scrum framework and Lean practices.
• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborative, and working productively.
• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve issues as they arise, removing impediments/blockers to ensure a smooth workflow.
• Challenge and encourage the team to identify assumptions and risks, and proactively plan to address these throughout delivery.
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
• Encourage, support, and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Understand the agile project phases and know how to support the team through this lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live, retirement).
• Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques
• Form relationships with your peers to enable efficient cross-team collaboration and dependency management.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview.

You will be a true leader who steers from the front. You will be someone who can create the right environment for your multidisciplinary teams to succeed, helping them to become self-managing and creating a culture of learning and transparency. We will look for the required skills as detailed in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, at Delivery Manager level, and in particular:

• Scrum certified to a minimum of CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) or PSM (Professional Scrum Master). We cannot accept part-qualifications or equivalent certifications.
• Agile and Lean Practices.
• Strong track record of building high performing agile software delivery teams using Scrum (additional experience of Kanban, XP, or Lean is desirable).
• Extensive understanding of product, services, and software development lifecycle, and proven experience of end-to-end delivery from initiation to live, as well as experience of iterating and improving services post live.
• Communicating between technical and non-technical, using delivery plans, metrics and forecasting techniques.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Agile and Lean practices
• Planning - maintaining delivery momentum

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

At this role level, you will:

• Be an active member of our community of practice, where you will share best practice, insight and support with your peers.
• Lead from the front using your Agile expertise and the scrum framework and Lean practices.
• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborative, and working productively.
• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve issues as they arise, removing impediments/blockers to ensure a smooth workflow.
• Challenge and encourage the team to identify assumptions and risks, and proactively plan to address these throughout delivery.
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
• Encourage, support, and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Understand the agile project phases and know how to support the team through this lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live, retirement).
• Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques
• Form relationships with your peers to enable efficient cross-team collaboration and dependency management