Senior Delivery Manager

Description & Requirements

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based Hybrid in any UK MoJ Office.

Assignment Background

A Senior Delivery Manager is required to join the Accommodation service area and ensure the successful delivery of key features in a challenging environment.

The service area is building and rolling out a single accommodation service, alongside delivering changes relating to sentencing reforms.

Accommodation consists of multiple digital teams and a service management capability. The successful candidate will join the management capability, oversee delivery across multiple digital teams and provide leadership to delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

As a Senior Delivery Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Build and maintain motivated teams, ensuring there is an iterative plan to work towards.
• Protect the team and ensure effective collaboration, communication and focus on priorities.
• Coach team members and stakeholders, facilitate continuous improvement and apply appropriate Agile and Lean delivery practices.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and blockers, escalating issues where required.
• Ensure an integrated roadmap is agreed and maintained across service management and delivery teams.

Essential:

• Experience leading delivery across multiple Agile digital teams.
• Experience building, leading and coaching high performing teams.
• Strong Agile and Lean delivery expertise.
• Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, blockers and escalations.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated delivery roadmaps.
• Experience working across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

Desirable:

• Experience working within GDS or DDaT environments.
• Previous Central Government experience.
• Experience delivering digital transformation programmes.
• Experience operating at service, programme or portfolio level.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, MOJ encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, MOJ welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".

General information

Posting ID

PIP11561

Type of employment

Contract

Organisation

Ministry of Justice

Contract duration

6 Month

Location

UK Wide

Workplace Type

Hybrid