Delivery Manager

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a Delivery Manager to support digital transformation in planning. The role involves working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver digital services and advocate agile practices. Ideal candidates should have experience in delivery management, knowledge of agile methodologies, and familiarity with the government digital landscape.

Qualifications

• Working level experience as a Delivery Management professional.
• Experience using agile methodologies for large-scale digital products.
• Understanding of government digital landscape and GDS service manual.

Responsibilities

• Support and motivate multi-disciplinary teams in agile practices.
• Provide data to report on the programme to management.
• Solve issues and unblock problems within the team.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Delivery management

Problem-solving

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital Planning Programme within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Our mission is to modernise the planning system through digital transformation, making it more transparent, accessible, and efficient for everyone. We are delivering tangible improvements to support communities across the UK, creating great places to live and work.

As a Delivery Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of cutting-edge digital services within the planning software and open digital planning or planning data. You may work with multidisciplinary teams, partner councils, and digital agencies to co-create and deliver best-in-class digital solutions. This includes supporting the development of innovative tools related to planning data, local plans, and planning software, all underpinned by a radical, digital-first approach. You will play a supporting role, working closely with Product Managers, Community Managers, and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of products and services that meet user needs. You will be an advocate for agile ways of working. This role requires you to have an understanding of agile and lean practices, and to make sound judgments on the use of appropriate tools and techniques. You will be expected to uphold and enhance established working practices, which revolve around the use of human-centred design practices and scrum.

As MHCLG moves to a hybrid model of team working you will support the senior delivery manager and wider team in effective ways of working across different locations. This is not a project management role. We are looking for individuals who want to deliver software products and can act as servant leaders to an empowered team.

Job description

As a Delivery Manager you’ll:

• support and motivate multiple multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they deliver products and services that meet users’ needs and ensure teams clearly communicate their plans and progress using recognised agile practices
• provide data to help report on the programme to the portfolio and senior management team ensure that working practices are iterated to achieve effective delivery
• solve issues and unblock problems
• actively participate in the delivery manager community, learning, sharing and applying skills and knowledge to improve coach and support teams in agile and lean practices, advocating these approaches and continuously reflecting and challenging the team
• optimise the delivery flow of teams, actively addressing risks, issues, and dependencies
• identify and challenge programme processes, coaching the programme teams to inspect and adapt
• support a continual planning process in a complex environment, identifying dependencies and coordinating delivery
• identify and rectify problems or issues in the team dynamic, using agile health-checks and providing feedback

Person specification

As a Delivery Manager you’ll have:

• working level experience as a Delivery Management professional
• demonstrable experience and knowledge of using agile methodologies and practices to deliver large-scale digital products, services, or projects
• experience of a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning, and roadmapping
• experience working in the planning, land, housing, or built environment sectors
• previous experience working in a government digital team
• an understanding of the government digital landscape and the GDS service manual
• previous experience working in virtual teams
• experience working in the delivery of a multi-product service, portfolio or programme
• experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle, and appropriate deliverables for each phase