Associate Delivery Manager - GDS - SEO

Government Digital & Data; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government digital service organization is seeking an Associate Delivery Manager in Manchester. You will build and manage multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the timely delivery of products that meet user needs. The ideal candidate has experience in delivering services across multiple organizations and understands cyber security risks. Join us in transforming public sector services for better efficiency and impact.

Benefits

Cross-government events and learning

Participation in digital upskilling sessions

Qualifications

• Experience of successfully delivering services that are deployed across a large number of organisations.
• Experience successfully supporting several services or projects simultaneously.
• An understanding of cyber security risk and government best practices.
• Experience in communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing projects using agile and lean practices.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-disciplinary teams to deliver timely products and services.
• Co-create and co-own plans using lean/agile practices.
• Manage stakeholders for strategic alignment and effective communication.

Skills

Experience in delivering services

Agile and lean practices

Excellent planning and organizational skills

Job description

As an Associate Delivery Manager you'll:

Responsibilities

• Build multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they deliver timely products and services that actually meet users' needs
• Co‑create and co‑own plans and progress using recognised lean/agile practices, and communicate status to more senior people and users appropriately
• Provide useful and accurate delivery metrics to facilitate continual improvement
• Manage stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and effective communication, taking into account organisational context and different needs and priorities, dealing constructively with conflicting views
• Work in partnership with product and technical leads across Government on high profile work in ambiguous, complex and/or uncertain domains
• Utilise your skills and expertise on other projects or other aspects of this project during your engagement should our organisation's priorities change

Qualifications

• Experience of successfully delivering services that are deployed across a large number of organisations or business units
• Experience successfully supporting several services or projects simultaneously through different phases of its life cycle
• An understanding of cyber security risk and government cyber security best practices
• Experience managing projects using agile and lean practices according to the Service Manual
• Experience of communicating between technical and non‑technical stakeholders whilst working in government, public sector or charity sector organisations
• Excellent planning and organisational skills

About the Organisation

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government - we are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:
1. joining up public sector services
2. harnessing the power of AI for the public good
3. strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
4. elevating leadership and investing in talent
5. funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
6. committing to transparency and driving accountability.

The Cyber and Domains Protection Team provide high quality relevant and actionable vulnerability, incident, threat and dependency information for the protection and resilience of the UK's Public Sector's digital services. We protect public sector domain name spaces such as "." and ensure they remain stable, trusted, well managed and resistant to compromise. The team also helps protect the infrastructure tools and services associated with these domains.

Discover Government Digital & Data London, England, United Kingdom > 1000 employees Corporate / Direct Employer Government Digital and Data is a community of experts leading digital transformation in government, creating more efficient services that have a meaningful impact on people's lives. Government Digital and Data professionals benefit from cross‑government events and learning. From webinars from the world's leading innovators to digital upskilling sessions. They enhance our professionals' skills and capabilities, which ultimately enables them to be a part of the world‑leading advancements in digital transformation and government innovation.