AddressUK Research & Innovation
Salary: £54,043
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Open Ended
Location: Polaris House, Swindon (Hybrid Working)
Closing Date: Wednesday 3 April 2024
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Job Overview:
The Senior Delivery Manager will work within our in-house BaU function providing delivery management of the Funding Service in line with Government Digital Service standard. You will organise and lead a multi-disciplinary team of designers, business analysts, development engineers, testers and platform engineers, ensuring the team is motivated and empowered to deliver its goals.
Exciting role to work closely with product managers to ensure the end-to-end software development process runs in the most efficient way, empowering team members to deliver their goals and ensure they are communicating with each other.
The role holder will promote agile ways of working. They will also help nurture open, creative and innovative environments. As the expert in delivery management in UKRI, they will support the development of a community of best practice for delivery management across UKRI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery Management - Optimise the delivery flow of teams and can actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. Identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
- Agile and Lean Practices - Coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. Act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. Create or tailor new ways of working, and constantly innovate.
- Stakeholder Management - Mediate between senior stakeholders and build relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales. Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government
- Product / User Centred Design (UCD) -In line with Cabinet Office digital standards, demonstrate through team work that user needs evidenced from researching, testing and iterating with users deliver the best value for the public purse. You will ensure that service design and interaction design skills form part of each product or service in some capacity in order to validate the business case for change, or avoid solutionising based upon unproven assumptions which causes risk and uncertainty.
- Commercial Management -Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers and can identify contractual frameworks and appropriate suppliers. Negotiate with contracted suppliers to gain good value
- Financial Management - Negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments. Write or input into business cases and can communicate business-value propositions.
- Planning -Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment and be able to plan beyond product delivery. Identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery. Coach other teams as the central point of expertise in delivery management
Person Specification:
Essential
- You will have agile delivery and/or Scrum Master qualifications
- Experience delivery management leading agile teams as a Scrum Master or Product Owner experience in a scrum/kanban environment
- Experience of working with User Centred Design teams
- Experience of working on a project implementing to the Government Digital Service standard
- Experience of leading and organising remote based teams of 10+ team members
- Experienced with remote working techniques and technologies
- Proven experience as Scrum master, Product Owner or Release Manager to the following: Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, Web APIs, Cloud architecture, DevOps.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills, critical thinker, and self-starter.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining view on the strategic direction and being as detailed as needed. Willing and able to get down in the details to make things happen
- Experience of working successfully to a demanding schedule with constraints and technically challenging programmes.
Interview Criteria:
- You can coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. Act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches
- Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers and identify appropriate contractual frameworks and identify appropriate suppliers
- Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels
- Negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments.
- Experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop
- Optimise the delivery flow of teams. You can actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
- Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You can plan beyond product delivery
- Identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses.
Why choose UKRI?
We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We are committed to supporting employees’ development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below;
- An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
- 30 days’ annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
- Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
- Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
- Flexible working options
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About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at www.ukri.org.
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.
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How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.
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