Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Pay up to £75,748, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• We’re looking for skilled agile delivery managers, who have experience of delivering in an agile environment, and enabling a multi-disciplinary team through different phases.
• We’re a community of over 200 Delivery professionals and we love to talk Agile. What’s your favourite approach? Scrum, Kanban, Lean or something else?
• Love learning? We have access to paid-for training and development, including qualifications from scrum.org, IC-Agile and other bodies.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK’s biggest government department. 110,000 colleagues deliver services and support to over 25 million people every day, and we make payment worth over £195bn a year.

Our expert DWP Digital community is transforming those products and services using the best tech, tooling, and innovative thinking. We’re making government services simpler and easier to access and cheaper to run and making DWP work better.

Delivering with People.

Our Agile Delivery Managers enable high-performing multidisciplinary digital teams to create, build, innovate and deliver. We create psychologically safe spaces where digital experts can be at their best.

You’ll be working with our Children and Families team. We help build, run and maintain products and services that improve the outcomes for children, by enabling parents to manage sustainable child maintenance arrangements in an efficient and convenient way.

You’ll make sure they have what they need to deliver the best services. You’ll identify blockers, and find the best way round through, and over.

This is an are where user groups can be complex, and the operational landscape can be challenging. You’ll need to be able to navigate those stakeholder relationships and balance priorities.

As well as being well-versed in agile tools and techniques, for this role we are looking for direct experience of procurement, commercial and supplier management.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience in delivering within an agile multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills and creating a safe and supporting environment.
• Proactivity in taking ownership of work, leading a team to deliver effective results.
• Experience of coaching and developing others, taking ownership of your own development.
• Managing commercial arrangements and working with suppliers to deliver a high-quality product

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £75,748.

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There’ll be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £55,557.00-£75,748.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7NE

Reference ID: 391821