Delivery Manager/Scrum Master
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,840.00 to £53,602.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46840.00 - £53602.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff, CF10 4BZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9028-25-0220 |
Summary
This is a unique opportunity to shape how agile delivery is embedded across Public Health Wales. As a Delivery Manager / Scrum Master, youll be at the forefront of our digital and data transformationguiding teams, influencing culture, and ensuring that delivery is both strategic and sustainable.Youll wear two hats:As a Delivery Manager, youll take ownership of delivery planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagementensuring that projects stay on track and deliver real value. As a Scrum Master, youll coach agile teams, facilitate ceremonies, and help teams continuously improve how they work.This dual role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys working across boundaries, and is passionate about making agile work in the real world.What Youll Be Doing: Driving Agile Maturity: Youll help teams adopt and adapt agile practices that suit their contextwhether thats Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach. Youll support product owners in shaping backlogs and help teams stay focused on delivering value. Leading Delivery: Youll manage delivery timelines, dependencies, and risks across a portfolio of digital and data initiatives. Youll ensure that delivery is transparent, well-governed, and aligned with organisational priorities. Building Relationships: Youll work closely with senior leaders, service managers, and technical teamstranslating between business needs and digital solutions. Youll be a trusted advisor who brings clarity and confidence to complex programmes. Championing Change: Youll support change management efforts, helping teams and stakeholders navigate new ways of working. Youll promote agile thinking through communities of practice, show-and-tells, and knowledge-sharing sessions. Coaching and Mentoring: Youll foster a culture of learning and improvementcoaching individuals and teams to build confidence, autonomy, and resilience. Youll also line manage staff and contribute to the ongoing development of the business operations team. Ensuring Accountability: Youll track progress, manage budgets, and ensure that delivery is underpinned by robust documentation and governance. Youll help ensure that our digital transformation is not only ambitiousbut also safe, inclusive, and sustainable.This role is ideal for someone who is equally confident facilitating agile teams and navigating complex delivery landscapessomeone who can zoom in to resolve blockers at the team level and zoom out to align delivery with broader organisational goals.Youll be joining a supportive Directorate, that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact. The Job Description and Personal Specification provide full details. For further details contact: Name Hilary Parsons Job title Governance & General Manager Email address hilary.parsons@wales.nhs.uk The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.