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Salary: £ 54,043
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Open Ended
Location: Polaris House, Swindon (Hybrid Working)

Closing Date: Wednesday 3 April 2024

Job Overview:

The Senior Delivery Manager will work within our in-house BaU function providing delivery management of the Funding Service in line with Government Digital Service standard. You will organise and lead a multi-disciplinary team of designers, business analysts, development engineers, testers and platform engineers, ensuring the team is motivated and empowered to deliver its goals.

Exciting role to work closely with product managers to ensure the end-to-end software development process runs in the most efficient way, empowering team members to deliver their goals and ensure they are communicating with each other.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery Management - Optimise the delivery flow of teams and can actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. Identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
• Agile and Lean Practices - Coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. Act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. Create or tailor new ways of working, and constantly innovate.
• Stakeholder Management - Mediate between senior stakeholders and build relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales. Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government
• Product/User Centred Design (UCD) - In line with Cabinet Office digital standards, demonstrate through team work that user needs evidenced from researching, testing and iterating with users deliver the best value for the public purse. You will ensure that service design and interaction design skills form part of each product or service in some capacity in order to validate the business case for change, or avoid solutionising based upon unproven assumptions which causes risk and uncertainty.
• Commercial Management -Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers and can identify contractual frameworks and appropriate suppliers. Negotiate with contracted suppliers to gain good value

Person Specification:

Essential

• You will have agile delivery and/or Scrum Master qualifications
• Experience delivery management leading agile teams as a Scrum Master or Product Owner experience in a scrum/kanban environment
• Experience of working with User Centred Design teams
• Experience of working on a project implementing to the Government Digital Service standard
• Experience of leading and organising remote based teams of 10+ team members

Why choose UKRI?

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below;

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options

How to Apply

Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role. Further information on how to apply is listed on our careers page.