Delivery Lead

SR2 REC LTD; Greater London; Remote; GBP 78,000 - 103,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

SR2 REC LTD in the United Kingdom is seeking a Delivery Lead to own the website, front-end development and user-centred design workstream for a major public-sector intranet transformation.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team from mobilisation through to launch, ensuring accessibility, government digital standards and a seamless content migration across two organisations into a single service.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the delivery approach, including plans, roadmaps, ceremonies, RAID and reporting.
• Lead front-end development, user-centred design and website delivery across discovery, alpha and beta.
• Coordinate the migration of content from two existing sites into one platform, including dependencies and cutover planning.
• Work with the Product Owner to manage priorities, scope and release plans.
• Coordinate designers, researchers, developers, content specialists and other delivery professionals.
• Maintain alignment between senior stakeholders across both organisations.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks, blockers and cross-team dependencies.
• Support a controlled launch and transition into ongoing service delivery.

Job description

Delivery Lead - Government Website and Intranet Transformation

Outside IR35: £490 per day
Remote
ASAP - until the end of March 2027
Part-time - 4 dpw until year-end, reducing to 3 dpw from January

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead to take ownership of the website, front-end development and user-centred design workstream within a major public-sector intranet transformation. The programme will bring together two established organisations and consolidate their existing intranets into a single service. You will lead a multidisciplinary team from mobilisation through to launch, ensuring the new platform is accessible, user-centred and delivered in line with government digital standards.

Role responsibilities

• Establish and manage the delivery approach, including plans, roadmaps, ceremonies, RAID and reporting.

• Lead front-end development, user-centred design and website delivery across discovery, alpha and beta.

• Coordinate the migration of content from two existing sites into one platform, including dependencies and cutover planning.

• Work with the Product Owner to manage priorities, scope and release plans.

• Coordinate designers, researchers, developers, content specialists and other delivery professionals.

• Maintain alignment between senior stakeholders across both organisations.

• Identify and resolve delivery risks, blockers and cross-team dependencies.

• Support a controlled launch and transition into ongoing service delivery.

Key experience and requirements

• Delivery Lead or Delivery Manager experience within UK government digital programmes.

• Strong knowledge of GDS ways of working and experience delivering through discovery, alpha, beta and live.

• Experience leading website development or transformation projects involving front-end development and UCD.

• Experience delivering content migration, information architecture or platform-consolidation initiatives.

• Confidence facilitating agile ceremonies and coordinating multidisciplinary, predominantly remote teams.

• Strong senior stakeholder management across multiple organisations or delivery partners.

• Experience delivering intranets, internal communications platforms or similar content-led services would be beneficial.

• Previous health or wider public-sector delivery experience would be advantageous.