INDEX - Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,500 to £48,243 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | SW1A 2AS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 353317/1 |
Summary
We are seeking motivated, dynamic and capable individuals to join a growing and ambitious INDEX team. Candidates should be passionate about developing and delivering digital solutions to meet user needs and digital transformation in government. We are looking for people with the right approach, experience and willingness to learn. The INDEX team fosters a culture of innovation, champions accessibility and promotes inclusion and diversity.
The Information and Data Exchange (INDEX) is a digital initiative sponsored by the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO). INDEX is a digital service which enables analysts to quickly find relevant, high quality government reporting (analysis and assessment) and publicly available material (open source). INDEX optimises advanced analytics and cloud technology to enable people working across HMG to quickly identify relevant, high-quality data and information from within and external to government.
We are advertising for two delivery manager roles to help grow the INDEX service. You will be working with external development teams and teams across government. There will be opportunities to work with a range of stakeholders including government departments, the National Security community and industry partners. You will be empowered to identify and implement improvements to help scale the service, including through automation and use of data and metrics. There will be opportunities to gain experience in commercial and financial management, as well as security and risk management. You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, including user researchers, developers, and analysis teams across government.
The Information and Data Exchange (INDEX) sits at the heart of the intelligence assessment community, building innovative digital capabilities to ensure our national security assessments can maintain a technological and analytical edge.
We are seeking motivated, dynamic and capable individuals to join a growing and ambitious INDEX team. Candidates should be passionate about developing and delivering digital solutions to meet user needs and digital transformation in government. We are looking for people with the right approach, experience and willingness to learn. The INDEX team fosters a culture of innovation, champions accessibility and promotes inclusion and diversity.
The Information and Data Exchange (INDEX) is a digital initiative sponsored by the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO). INDEX is a digital service which enables analysts to quickly find relevant, high quality government reporting (analysis and assessment) and publicly available material (open source). INDEX optimises advanced analytics and cloud technology to enable people working across HMG to quickly identify relevant, high-quality data and information from within and external to government.
We are advertising for two delivery manager roles to help grow the INDEX service. You will be working with external development teams and teams across government. There will be opportunities to work with a range of stakeholders including government departments, the National Security community and industry partners. You will be empowered to identify and implement improvements to help scale the service, including through automation and use of data and metrics. There will be opportunities to gain experience in commercial and financial management, as well as security and risk management. You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, including user researchers, developers, and analysis teams across government.
About the JIO
The Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) primarily supports the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the Foreign Policy and Security Council, the Prime Minister and other key decision-makers by providing authoritative, robust all-source intelligence assessment on a vast range of national security and foreign policy priorities.
Our work covers, and goes beyond, ‘traditional’ national security topics such as geopolitical issues and threats to British interests. We apply a national security lens to issues such as emerging technology, economic and health security, climate change and horizon scanning (for example, identifying and monitoring countries at risk of instability).
The Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA) was established in 2005. The post and associated team is part of the JIO and leads on the development of the UK intelligence community’s analytical capability.
You can read more about working for the JIO and INDEX in the information packs attached at the bottom of this advert.
Example Responsibilities
We are recruiting for two Delivery Managers. Example responsibilities, which will be split across the two successful candidates, include:
- Maintaining delivery momentum with external development teams: Ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well. Contribute to prioritisation activities, business cases, benefits realisation and business change.
- Backlog prioritisation and refinement: Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services. Define requirements into epics, features and stories in jira and tasks, providing clear acceptance criteria. Work with user researchers to communicate user research findings across technical and business stakeholders so that they share a strong and empathetic understanding of their users.
- Identify and implement service and process improvements: Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them. Use business modelling to perform and facilitate analysis of ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ scenarios to identify potential process improvements. Document and communicate options and recommendations to meet business and user requirements.
- Business Analytics: Track and proactively manage project related actions and decisions and actively identify and manage dependencies and obstacles. Measure and communicate progress on delivery to the wider team including input into management metrics, weekly updates and comms.
- Agile: Coach and mentor team members to apply the most appropriate Agile ways of working. Champion agile best practice, mentor team members in agile techniques and use of Jira.
- Support to commercial and financial management: Work with commercial and finance teams within the Cabinet Office to ensure the INDEX service follows best practice. Support budget planning, invoice management, spend approvals and procurement options analysis. Commercial and financial experience is not essential, you will be provided with training.
You will be empowered to set up new initiatives, develop new relationships and try new ideas which are aligned with the INDEX vision.