Lead Agile Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 01 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £69,869 to £89,995 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 July 2024 |
| Location: | City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2 3LR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 357488_1719851149 |
Summary
Lead Agile Delivery Manager: Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
We are looking for individuals with a strong passion for agile delivery and the ability to inspire and lead teams. This is not a traditional project management role.
Join us in shaping the public services of tomorrow.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP is the UK's biggest government department. 110,000 colleagues deliver services and support to over 25 million people every day, and we make payment worth over £195bn a year.
Our expert DWP Digital community is transforming those products and services using the best tech, tooling, and innovative thinking. We're making government services simpler and easier to access and cheaper to run and making DWP work better.
Delivering with People.
As our Lead Agile Delivery Manager you will create psychologically safe spaces, which enable our dynamic teams to be at their best.
You will be responsible for designing and orchestrating area-wide delivery, optimising workflows as we transform data products into agile-driven data feeds.
You'll also implement new processes and techniques to deliver successful outcomes at scale.
You'll be providing agile program leadership for complex scaled programs with lots of stakeholders. You'll lead our teams in hands-on product delivery and end-to-end service implementation.
You'll need to be a good communicator. You'll build trusting and influential relationships across all organisational levels. You'll manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions on high-risk and complex matters.
You'll also need strong commercial and financial acumen in this role.
You'll negotiate, influence and set budgets. And you'll report on value for money, write and present business cases identifying business value for senior stakeholders.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- You'll have a track record of delivering large scale digital services at pace in complex agile environments involving multiple delivery teams and stakeholders.
- Exemplary leadership skills with the ability to build and motivate high performing teams and influence diverse stakeholder groups, including experience of coaching and mentoring.
- Having a proactive approach to developing capability in the organisation
- Creating a culture of healthy, psychologically safe, innovative, sustainable teams
- Strong communication influencing skills, with evidence of changing organisation status quo.
Developing a World-Class Practice.
Our Agile Delivery practice is thriving with over 200 members and you'll have a leading role.
We lead a cross-gov community which meets once a month to share ideas and discuss emerging trends. We're a centre of expertise for Agile in government and beyond.
And the opportunities for learning for you and your teams are unlimited. Our people have access to experts from across our community and across DWP Digital, for coaching, mentoring, sharing ideas and lots more.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or Sheffield.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model, so you can expect to be in the office some of the time and at home some of the time.
In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay between £69,869 to £89,995.
You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £22,521 a year.
You'll also generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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