Delivery Manager

nationalarchives; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Archives is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to lead delivery of digital services and provide free, open access to Case Law. You will work in a blended multi-disciplinary team with product and service owners, developers, researchers and data specialists on a fixed-term, 6-month appointment.

The role is full-time with hybrid onsite and home working, requiring regular travel to the Kew site for about 60% of time.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering Agile digital products.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to develop product roadmaps and forecast progress.
• Knowledge of legal/policy constraints for digital services.

Responsibilities

• Enable a multi-disciplinary team and foster Agile culture.
• Apply Agile methods and keep up-to-date with trends.
• Promote effective management tools and techniques.
• Coordinate planning and monitor team velocity.
• Travel to Kew site for ~60% of time.

Skills

Agile product delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Scrum / Agile frameworks

Team coaching

Job description

As the living, growing home of our national story, The National Archives is a special place to work. We're an institution nearly 200 years old with a collection spanning 1,000 years of history.

We've set ourselves the challenge of becoming the 21st Century national archive - a different kind of cultural and heritage institution: Inclusive, Entrepreneurial, Disruptive. We won't become this overnight. It will take time, focus, effort and daring.

Job Overview

• Salary: £53,100 per annum
• Contract: Fixed Term Appointment for 6 months
• Band: F / Senior Executive Officer
• Closing Date: Thursday 24th September at midnight

The National Archives is looking for an experienced Delivery Manager.

As Delivery Manager in the Access to Digital Records team you will be responsible for delivery managing services and providing free and open access to Case Law via https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.

You will work within a blended multi-disciplinary product team made up of in house staff and contractors. The team will comprise of a service owner, product owner, back-end and front-end developers, user researchers, designers and data specialists.

This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department.

A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time.

Role and Responsibilities

Enable and facilitate a multi-disciplinary team and build a positive, open Agile working culture using Scrum or other appropriate Agile methods. Have a deep knowledge of and be able to apply a range of tools and methods, taking an innovative approach and keeping up to date with trends in Agile product delivery. Promote and advocate effective management and appropriate tools and techniques. Apply appropriate methods to create an open and collaborative working environment where the team (and other stakeholders) have a strong situational awareness of what team members are working on. Help improve team co-ordination, apply your coaching skills to support the team to autonomously organise their own work Facilitate the collaborative, dynamic planning pro

Essential Criteria for Personal Statement

• A proactive, passionate, positive and delivery focused expert and strong advocate of Agile product delivery practices. You will have practical experience in a range of Agile methods, frameworks, methodologies and tools, and understand which best to apply in a given situation
• User-focused, with proven experience of delivering robust, secure and inclusive digital products that meet user needs, technical requirements, legal or policy constraints and the quality expectations of the business.
• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams who may work across one or more projects, with a proven ability to build a positive team culture
• Experience of developing product roadmaps, structuring and tracking work, managing spend and communicating and forecasting progress and velocity

Applicants invited to interview will be assessed against ALL of the essential criteria (see full job description below).

Sponsorship

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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