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Government Cyber Profession; West of England; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Cyber Unit is seeking an Associate Delivery Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams across Bristol, London, and Manchester. You will coordinate delivery of cyber services, apply lean/agile practices, and ensure governance and financial controls are maintained.

Role emphasizes collaboration with product and technical leads, finance teams, and central departments to deliver high-profile, complex work while maintaining an inclusive and supportive team culture.

Qualifications

• Delivering services deployed across many organisations or units.
• Supporting procurement, contracting and supplier management in government.
• Finance activities: forecasting, budgeting, accruals, journals, invoicing, purchases.
• Working with finance/ commercial teams on governance, approvals, reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-disciplinary teams and plan work to deliver timely products and services meeting users’ needs.
• Co-create plans using lean/agile practices and report progress to stakeholders.
• Provide delivery metrics for continual improvement.
• Manage stakeholders for strategic alignment and clear communication.
• Collaborate with product and technical leads across Government on high-profile work.
• Coordinate with central finance and commercial teams on reporting standards and approvals.
• Support tracking, managing and reporting of financial information month-end.
• Support end-to-end procurement processes and contract management of third-party suppliers.
• Contribute to business cases and financial inputs for programme boards.
• Utilise skills on other projects as priorities change.
• Foster an inclusive team environment encouraging innovation.

Skills

Delivery management

Agile & Lean

Stakeholder management

Procurement processes

Contract management

Financial reporting

Job description

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

About the job Job summary

The Government Cyber Unit's mission is to protect public services from cyber threats and digital resilience failures. We are working to achieve a step change in our cyber and digital resilience across government, through delivery of the Government Cyber Action Plan, and working closely with departments and national technical authorities including the National Cyber Security Centre to deliver. This is a challenging time to be working in cyber security and digital resilience, but we have an incredible opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives and promote national security by protecting the public services and national infrastructure they rely on. We work at the forefront of shaping the UK’s national response to emerging cyber and technology issues - from the increasingly complex range of state-sponsored cyber-attacks and supply chain compromises, through to the transformational benefits and security challenges of frontier AI and quantum computing.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive working environment where people can learn, develop and do their best work. Continuous professional development and a focus on wellbeing is core to our unit culture. We welcome applications from candidates who share this ethos and are excited by our mission.

The Cyber Services Team supports the delivery of the Government Cyber Action Plan by coordinating, overseeing and delivering services to help public sector organisations solve cyber security challenges.

The services we provide centrally are those where automation and economies of scale can be applied to address common resilience and cyber problems. These cover the core internet services we all rely on such as DNS, email and web services, as well as vulnerability management, cyber testing and cyber capability uplift.

We ensure that cyber services are easy to find and use, and that the information and support delivered by these services is coherent, valuable, relevant, timely, trusted, reliable and easy to action. We track success using evidence-based objective measures.

Job description

Former DSIT recruitment campaigns are continuing as usual, but candidates should be aware that following the Government’s announcement on the changes to some civil service departments, roles will be subject to the machinery of government moves and will ultimately be in one of the new departments. We will provide more information if you are selected for a role. This work remains of high importance to the civil service, and we thank you for your continued interest.

As an Associate Delivery Manager, you’ll:

• 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
• work closely with central finance and commercial teams to ensure alignment on reporting standards, governance, and approvals
• support the tracking, managing, and reporting of financial information across the Cyber Services Team, ensuring data accuracy and completeness at month-end
• support the end-to-end procurement process and contract management of third-party suppliers, ensuring value for money and compliance with commercial controls
• contribute to the preparation of business cases and financial inputs for programme boards
• utilise your skills and expertise on other projects or other aspects of this project during your engagement should our organisation’s priorities change
• facilitate an inclusive team environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed from all colleagues

Person specification

We’re interested in people who have experience:

• successfully delivering services that are deployed across a large number of organisations or business units, as well as guiding teams through the implementation of a new process
• successfully supporting several services or projects simultaneously through different phases of its life cycle
• supporting procurement, contracting and supplier management processes in a Central Government Department environment or wider public sector
• supporting finance activities, including forecasting, budgeting, accruals, journals, invoicing, and purchasing
• working with finance and commercial teams to meet governance, approval, and reporting requirements
• of cyber security risk and government cyber security best practices
• managing projects using agile and lean practices according to the Service Manual
• of communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders whilst working in government, public sector or charity sector organisations
• of excellent planning and organisational skills, utilising data to ensure teams plan appropriately for their capacity