Head of Profession (Agile) Delivery Management
| Posting date: | 13 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 November 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | G9914-25-0271 |
Summary
In this role you are accountable for: Setting the strategic direction for Delivery Management across DDaT, ensuring alignment with national standards and organisational priorities and inputting into the direction of delivery in bids/new SoWs. Leading the development and implementation of Agile delivery practices, frameworks, policies and standards that support consistent, high-quality delivery across multidisciplinary teams and third-party suppliers Defining and maintaining delivery assurance processes, including service assessments, supplier performance reviews, and governance compliance across the DDaT Directorate engaging with wider multi disciplinary teams. Building and leading a high-performing professional community of Delivery Managers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Collaborating with other Heads of Profession to promote a multidisciplinary approach to delivery, ensuring integrated ways of working across DDaT and beyond. Designing and implementing structured career pathways, competency frameworks, and training programmes to support professional development and talent progression. Leading the recruitment strategy for the Delivery Management profession, working with HR and DDaT Capability leads. Engaging with Talent Acquisition to foster new and innovative ways of recruiting and retaining talent Coaching and mentoring delivery professionals and teams, embedding Agile mindsets and supporting transformation initiatives. Driving innovation through horizon scanning and external engagement, identifying emerging delivery trends and translating them into actionable improvements. Acting as a senior advisor on delivery strategy, contributing to working groups, panels, and cross-government communities to influence national delivery standards. Contributing to the overall DDaT Delivery Strategy as well as providing evidence of service and performance improvements across services. Leading the NHSBSA Delivery Assessment Community, ensuring consistent application of service assessment standards and readiness assurance. Managing the delivery management budget, ensuring strategic financial planning and commercial oversight. Monitoring, and reporting in line with NHSBSA policies and strategic goals. Monitoring and reporting on delivery performance using relevant metrics and KPIs to drive accountability and continuous improvement. Empowering delivery managers to proactively measure the productivity of their teams, providing a framework and tools to enable this. Representing NHSBSA and the Delivery Management profession internally and externally, including senior stakeholder forums and strategic advisory panels, enhancing the organisations reputation and influence. Deputising for the Head of DDaT Capability and Operations and/or Heads of DDaT Delivery and Consultancy as required. Use and explore complex data sets to support strategic decision making. Work closely with the data teams to align delivery measurement with enterprise data standards, ensuring reproducibility of delivery metrics. Ensure that clear metrics, KPIs are in place and aligned to the reporting standards. This will provide stakeholders with clear, accessible, and regular reporting on value, pace quality, and outcomes from delivery. Demonstrating emotional resilience and strategic decision-making under pressure, particularly in high-stakes delivery environments and complex stakeholder In addition to the above accountabilities, you will be expected to: Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager. Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work. Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted. Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion. Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.