Senior Delivery Manager (i.AI)

at  Cabinet Office

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Has a strong experience of coaching and leading teams in agile practices. Can choose the right method for the team and work.
• Identifies problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them, engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick.
• Can demonstrate successfully taking a product through the different stages of the product life-cycle, and can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
• Can identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
• Is an expert at identifying and improving organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated.
• Has a keen focus on actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
• Leads a continual planning process in a very complex environment and identifies dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.
  Strong candidates come from many different backgrounds, and we encourage a broad range of applications to ensure we have a well-balanced team. Studies show that talented people, especially those from groups underrepresented in their field, are more likely to doubt themselves and feel like an “imposter”. Unique perspectives enrich teams, so we urge you to have confidence in your potential contributions. If aspects of this role resonate with you, please apply. We look forward to your application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• Technical assessment at interview 1

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,403, Cabinet Office contributes £16,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Delivery Manager will work closely with the Head of Delivery to ensure the team has everything they need to deliver efficiently. They will be working with stakeholders to understand needs and plan how these can be delivered. We are looking for someone who will build good working relationships to get the work done.
Our project teams vary from a team of 2 or 3 scoping an idea to a full multidisciplinary team. As a Senior Delivery Manager you will adapt your work to meet the needs of the team. For example in scoping you will be very involved in understanding the feasibility and value of doing a new piece of work. As the project progresses you will adapt to unblocking problems for the team and empowering them to deliver.
Being flexible and passionate about getting things done are essential, this will be a varied role and we need someone who’s keen to adapt to what’s needed.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing appropriate agile practices for teams in the incubator based on their needs and the work
• Supporting the team by running planning sessions, retrospectives and daily stand-ups
• Work to proactively remove blockers to delivery, reconciling differences within the team and ensuring that stakeholder expectations are aligned
• Coaching and mentoring others in approaches to agile delivery
• Managing dependencies between projects and escalating issues you or the team identify
• Managing risks, commercials and budgets to ensure resources are used efficiently
• Working with the team to ensure products are scoped appropriately to deliver a MVP that meets stakeholder’s and user’s needs while maintaining focus on prototyping
• Identifying, sourcing and managing the tools needed for the team
• Line managing people to enable to deliver their best work
• Supporting with the creation of business cases as required for the team’s work
• Proactively finding opportunities to make the team more inclusive and supporting the team’s well being
• Managing the commercials of the product or service, including procuring services
• Embedding user-centred ways of working in the team and across the incubator
• Support the effective performance of the team by promoting diversity, inclusion, regular, honest and constructive feedback, and supporting continuous improvement

For this role we’ll be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Other