Role: Agile Delivery Manager REF 107792
Contract Length: 12 months with a possibility to extend
Location: Hybrid/Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham or Newcastle - 60% in office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
About the Role
Spinwell is recruiting for an Agile Delivery Manager an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Builds a high performing team through encouraging continuous learning, adaptation and improvement.
- Utilise meaningful metrics in order to drive the team towards their goals and understand areas for improvement.
- Creates a safe, supporting environment for the team, encouraging them to experiment and making failure a safe part of learning.
- Leads by example, acting as a servant-leader demonstrate the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.
- Manages and builds relationships with the teams, relevant stakeholders and third party sub-contractors utilising effective and appropriate governance mechanisms. Managing team dynamics to ensure the team is aligned to the same objectives.
- Works with Product Owners and other business teams to ensure that new products and services are delivered effectively to realise measurable benefits.
- Supports Senior Agile Delivery Managers and Product Owners to define a delivery roadmap to show when features and associated outcomes and value are likely to be delivered.
- Drive the creation of the business case, co-ordinate activities across stakeholder groups. Iterate the business case throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, driving out outcomes and establishing the pace of delivery.
- Manage risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal), taking responsibility by owning them till they are mitigated or resolved.
- Drives the pace of delivery across their project with support of the senior delivery managers, owning key blockers till they are resolved.
- Manage external assurance groups so that they are appropriately engaged and aware to avoid any risks related to formal approvals.
- Ensure funding is in place and track spending and forecasts regularly and accurately.
- Leads agile events across the project, ensuring business and delivery teams are working to a common objective and vision to deliver specific outcomes.
- Follows standards of agile practices set by the agile delivery manager community, helping senior delivery managers to adapt and/or adopt agile methods and tools for use on projects.
- Acts as a point of contact for suppliers.
- Communicating consistently across all project stakeholders, ensuring that stakeholders are aligned around the core messages coming from the project.
- Be an active part of the agile community, helping organising local events. Helps educate members of other business and IT divisions on agile principles, methods and tools.
- Actively promotes a culture of working in an agile manner utilising agile delivery principles
Essential Skills and Experience
- Ideally candidates will have Greenfield project experience and have a start-up mindset as the service is new and immature.
- AWS experience
Disability Confident Scheme
The client supports the Disability Confident Scheme and is committed to providing fair and inclusive recruitment opportunities. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role may be eligible for an interview under the scheme. Where application volumes are particularly high, the client may shortlist those candidates who best meet the role requirements.
Armed Forces Covenant
The client supports the Armed Forces Covenant and is committed to helping veterans and military spouses or partners access employment opportunities. Eligible veterans and spouses or partners of Armed Forces personnel who meet the minimum essential criteria may qualify for an interview under the client’s applicable recruitment scheme. Where application volumes are particularly high, shortlisting may be necessary.
How to Apply Under These Schemes
If you believe you qualify under either scheme, please inform your Spinwell recruitment consultant when applying and quote the relevant vacancy reference. We will explain the applicable process and confirm your request with the client.
Reasonable Adjustments
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