Delivery Manager – Estates Delivery Team(Ref: 7261)

Ministry of Justice UK; North Shields; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public sector organization is hiring a Delivery Manager for their Estates Delivery Team in Northeast England. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver projects in a dynamic environment while ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and financial accountability. Flexible working options are available, and the successful candidate will be part of an inclusive and supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Learning budget

Generous civil service pension

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivery management in agile environments.
• Ability to coach and mentor teams in Agile methodologies.
• Experience in financial delivery and monitoring budgets.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining motivated teams focused on product delivery.
• Managing stakeholder expectations and project progress.
• Identifying and overcoming project obstacles.

Skills

Agile practices

Financial management

Communication skills

Tools

Prince2

Network WAN/LAN

Job description

This position can be based at the following locations: MOJ JSO Darlington Victoria House, DL3 6TH, MOJ JSO North Shields King Court, NE29 6AR

Job Summary

Please refer to job description.

Job Description

Delivery Manager – Estates Delivery Team

Location: Northeast England (travel to MoJ sites outside this region may also be required)

Closing Date: 10th July

Interviews: W/C 21st July (subject to change)

Grade: G7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £61201 - £69338. National: £56532 - £64048.

Working pattern: Full time, part time, flexible working, job share.

Contract Type: Permanent.

• We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
  
  

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Tech Services Delivery team.

This role aligns against Delivery Managerfrom the Government Digital and Data Framework.

Working as a Delivery Manager, you’ll be responsible for building, maintaining and motivating teams; protect the team and make sure the team collaborates to focus on what is most important. You’ll coach team members and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement in the team. You will proactively manage dependencies and risks to overcome obstacles to delivery.

You’ll be an active part of the broader delivery management community in Technology Services and Justice Digital, receiving coaching and mentoring from your senior colleagues, and will also have the chance to participate in informal support networks with peers.

We are looking for Delivery Managers to join us to help deliver products and services to our end users across the whole of the MoJ family which includes Courts, Tribunals, Prisons, Probation, Offices and other partners and agencies. No two days or sites are the same, with an Estate that ranges from historical buildings such as the Royal Courts of Justice in London to modern purpose-built buildings and everything in between. With over 1000 properties there is always somewhere different to work at.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

We’re looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who’ll enjoy working in a delivery focused, agile environment with multidisciplinary teams. You will contribute to our Agile Delivery community and share your skills and experiences with others across the MoJ, and wider government departments. You’ll be an experienced delivery manager leading a multidisciplinary team, supporting and continuously improving products of significant scale and complexity. You’ll get support from your people manager, delivery manager peers, the wider delivery community and from formal learning opportunities to develop in this role.

Your role will involve but will not be limited to;

• Building and maintaining teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working effectively to prioritise the delivery of products and services.
• Attending site to ensure projects progress as planned, getting involved with the work and ensuring stakeholder expectations are managed.
• Ensuring all team members clearly understand and own their roles, responsibilities and priorities, making sure that delivery of timely quality outcomes is achieved.
• Identifying obstacles and helping the team to overcome them, whilst ensuring delivery is met.
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Coaching and mentoring both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
• Delivering and facilitating ad hoc projects to improve operations and the efficiency of the team / function.
• Managing the full life cycle and delivery of services, working towards the appropriate standards for the relevant phase.
• Reporting on financial delivery, monitoring cost and budgets.
• Acting as a point of contact for suppliers, communicating internally and externally ensuring processes are adhered to. Able to explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand at all levels.
  
  

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

Prior experience in deploying one or more of the following products and services utilising various methodologies such as -

• Agile and Prince2
• Network WAN/LAN
• Configurations
• WiFi
• Print
• Teams phone
• Mobile phone
• End User Devices
• Infrastructure changes
• Estates moves and changes
• Agile and Lean practices. You have practical experience and understanding of Agile tools, techniques and principles. You can adapt and reflect, be resilient and have the ability to see outside of the process.
• Communication skills. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. You can manage stakeholder expectations, and facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
• You have practical experience of facilitating the team’s planning cycle, managing complex internal and external dependencies, removing blockers that affect plans and can develop a plan for a difficult situation.
• Maintaining delivery momentum. You have practical experience of facilitating the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. You can actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies
  
  

Making the process work. You are an expert at identifying and challenging organisational processes and know how to guide the team through the implementation of a new process.

• Financial management. You can report on financial delivery and can monitor cost and budget.
• Commercial management. You can act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers.
• You have experience of line managing delivery teams.
  
  

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC vetting.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

“The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. “

How To Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and statement of suitability (of no more than 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. Applicants who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to attend an interview.

In Justice Digital, We Recruit Using a Combination Of The Government Digital And Data Profession Capability And Success Profiles Frameworks. We Will Assess Your Experience And The Following Behaviours During The Assessment Process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
  
  

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift -

Prior experience in deploying one or more of the following products and services utilising various methodologies such as -

• Agile and Prince2
• Network WAN/LAN
• Configurations
• WiFi
• Print
• Teams phone
• Mobile phone
• End User Devices
• Infrastructure changes
• Estates moves and changes
• You have experience of line managing delivery teams.
  
  

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [e-mail]

Delivery Manager – Estates Delivery Team

Location: Northeast England (travel to MoJ sites outside this region may also be required)

Closing Date: 10th July

Interviews: W/C 21st July (subject to change)

Grade: G7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £61201 - £69338. National: £56532 - £64048.

Working pattern: Full time, part time, flexible working, job share.

Contract Type: Permanent.

• We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
  
  

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Tech Services Delivery team.

This role aligns against Delivery Managerfrom the Government Digital and Data Framework.

Working as a Delivery Manager, you’ll be responsible for building, maintaining and motivating teams; protect the team and make sure the team collaborates to focus on what is most important. You’ll coach team members and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement in the team. You will proactively manage dependencies and risks to overcome obstacles to delivery.

You’ll be an active part of the broader delivery management community in Technology Services and Justice Digital, receiving coaching and mentoring from your senior colleagues, and will also have the chance to participate in informal support networks with peers.

We are looking for Delivery Managers to join us to help deliver products and services to our end users across the whole of the MoJ family which includes Courts, Tribunals, Prisons, Probation, Offices and other partners and agencies. No two days or sites are the same, with an Estate that ranges from historical buildings such as the Royal Courts of Justice in London to modern purpose-built buildings and everything in between. With over 1000 properties there is always somewhere different to work at.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

In Justice Digital, We Recruit Using a Combination Of The Government Digital And Data Profession Capability And Success Profiles Frameworks. We Will Assess Your Experience And The Following Behaviours During The Assessment Process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
  
  

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift -

Prior experience in deploying one or more of the following products and services utilising various methodologies such as -

• Agile and Prince2
• Network WAN/LAN
• Configurations
• WiFi
• Print
• Teams phone
• Mobile phone
• End User Devices
• Infrastructure changes
• Estates moves and changes
• You have experience of line managing delivery teams.
  
  

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [e-mail]

Person specification

Please Refer To Attached Job Description

Alongside your salary of £56,532, Ministry of Justice contributes £16,377 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance
  
  

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Selection process details

https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : [e-mail]
• Telephone : [phone]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL ([e-mail]) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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