Delivery Manager

Come along and meet us at our virtual recruitment event in Manchester on Friday 28th June. It’s a great chance to connect, meet and potentially get hired.

Here at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives.

Find out more about what it's like to work in a digital, data and technology role at DLUHC including our culture, ways of working, career progression and staff benefits. You can also read the DLUHC Digital blog to learn about the work we're doing.

This role will initially be a 23-month fixed-term contract and based in our Manchester office where we offer a hybrid-approach to working.

What you’ll do as a Delivery Manager

• build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well

• identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them

• focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services

• encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team

• coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques

• work collaboratively with colleagues across the wider technology team to record, track and manage delivery of their tasks for established services

• create, develop and maintain project plans and appropriate systems to enable effective planning and scheduling

• ensure that working practices are iterated to achieve effective delivery, solve issues and unblock problems
• work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to deliver projects successfully

• provide data to help report on programmes to senior colleagues

What we’re looking for

• demonstrable experience and knowledge of using agile methodologies and practices to deliver large-scale digital products, services or projects

• experience of using agile practices to support team to clearly communicate delivery progress, and enable a continuous approach to planning, forecasting estimating and managing uncertainty

• experience of identifying problems or issues and helping to rectify them

• good stakeholder management skills, co-ordinating across various groups to create an agreed joined up approach to migration of services

• experience of the continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road-mapping

• experience of managing multiple projects within a digital environment