Senior Delivery Manager (Agile) (Ref: 1771)

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• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information
  
  

Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About The Job

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The Role

Were recruiting for a Senior Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative End User Computing team.

This role aligns against Senior Delivery Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework

The End User Computing team sits within the Technology Services team within Digital and Technology, which is responsible for all infrastructure, end user computing, onsite support and delivery of technology projects. It has responsibility for 95,000 devices and infrastructure across 900+ sites. 

Delivery Managers ensure teams have the right environment to deliver the vision, products and services, iteratively and ensure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important. They work at the heart of teams to provide direction within a service or programme.

Delivery Managers are accountable for building, motivating, supporting and facilitating teams as well as removing obstacles and blockers that get in their way. They challenge approaches inside and outside of the team they are working with and facilitate a focus on the outcome.

Delivery Managers have a deep understanding of agile practices and make judgements on the use of appropriate tools and techniques for their environment. They proactively manage dependencies, identify and manage priorities, overcome obstacles and get the best value against constraints. Delivery Managers may manage risks, budgets and people.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Delivery Manager within the Strategy and Governance Team, you are;

• Accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services, engaging senior stakeholders with strong communication skills.
• Extensive experience across various products and services throughout their lifecycle, serving as the main point of escalation while coaching and mentoring delivery managers at different levels.
• Leads multidisciplinary teams, continuously improving products of significant scale and complexity.
• Builds, maintains, and motivates teams, ensuring collaboration and focus on priorities.
• Facilitates learning and development through individual and team coaching.
• Drives the adoption of agile practices across the organization.
• Communicates agile principles, scrum practices, and the overall operating model.
• Champions the use of metrics and objective measures by teams.
• Conducts daily follow-ups with team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are met.
• Maintains objectivity in troubleshooting issues using agile principles.
• Act as the Scrum Master, holding stand-up meetings, scrum of scrum sessions, retrospectives and other collaboration sessions with cross-functional teams to review project status and support teams in determining resource allocations to maintain agile practices and ensure smooth project delivery.
• Work in collaboration across the teams to optimise the ways of working across the teams - through continuous improvement initiative adoption, working group outputs, process review and refinements, strategic tooling adoption and best practice applications.
• Experienced in team health, conflict resolution, and performance acceleration.
• Promotes transparency and external understanding of work.
• Creates an open, collaborative, flexible, and adaptable work environment.
• Quickly adjusts to shifting priorities, unexpected challenges, and changing requirements in fast-paced Agile environments.
• Advocates and communicates team activities to build trust and authenticity, effectively responding to challenges.
  
  

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply! Person Specification

Essential

Agile and Lean practices

• You possess extensive knowledge and lead the adoption of Agile methodologies across multiple squads. This includes advanced proficiency in Jira and other Lean tools and techniques. You are capable of coaching both within and outside the team, advocating for these tools and techniques, and staying innovative by keeping up with the latest trends.
  
  

Team dynamics and collaboration

• Fosters continuous improvement by reflecting on processes, identifying enhancements, and implementing changes.
  
  

Maintaining delivery momentum

• Expertise and experienced in solving issues, unblocking problems, and driving teams to meet delivery commitments.
• Proven track record of managing dependencies across teams, departments, or entire organizations.
  
  

Planning

• You can use a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping.
  
  

Communicating between the technical and non-technical

• You have the ability to communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.
  
  

Financial management

• You can report on financial delivery and can monitor cost and budget.
  
  

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms 
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app. 
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
  
  

Person specificationPlease refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,532, Ministry of Justice contributes £16,377 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance
  
  

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV & Supporting Statement (of no more than 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to interview. 

Within your statement of suitability, please focus on demonstrating how you meet the following essential criteria which are being assessed at the sift stage;

• Agile and Lean practices
  
  

You possess extensive knowledge and lead the adoption of Agile methodologies across multiple squads. This includes advanced proficiency in Jira and other Lean tools and techniques.

You are capable of coaching both within and outside the team, advocating for these tools and techniques, and staying innovative by keeping up with the latest trends.

• Team dynamics and collaboration
  
  

Fosters continuous improvement by reflecting on processes, identifying enhancements, and implementing changes.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.SecuritySuccessful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.Diversity and InclusionThe Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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