Senior Agile Delivery Manager Department for Work & Pensions

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Reference

105577

Number of vacancies

1

Location

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Salary

£49,171 — £59,589

Work hours

37

Employment type

Permanent

Job benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• An employer pension contribution of up to 27%
• A generous annual leave allowance, starting @ 25 days and rising to 30 days per year

Closing date

25 April 2021

Job description

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP Digital offers uniquely challenging and fulfilling careers for people who want to use their skills to make a genuine difference to society.

We’re part of the UK’s biggest government department, and along with over 110,00 colleagues and agents, we work with over 22 million people every day to help them to find work, save and get the support they need.

You’ll be a key part of a unique, once-in-a-generation digital transformation of government products and services that are used by so many people, often at critical times in their lives.

Our pension offer is amazing – with circa 27% contributions from your employer – so while you use your skills to create better futures for millions of people in the UK, you’ll also be looking after the future of you and your family.

We also want to ensure our people have a really good work/life balance. You’ll enjoy the benefits of flexible working, including flexi time which means you can manage how and when you work and also take extra days off.

Delivery. Work. Projects. 

In this role you will manage the delivery as part of our Child Services Team.  We are designing and building new services and improving older ones as part of a challenging portfolio of activity that will help ensure children and their carer’s can better access the support they need.

You’ll be an exemplary servant leader, steering from the front. You’ll remove blockers and create the right environment for your multidisciplinary teams to succeed, helping them to self-sufficiency and creating a culture of learning and transparency.

Ideally you’ll have delivered within the software development life cycle, through all phases.

We’re really looking for hands on delivery of projects and portfolios at scale, a user-centred focus and design, and experience of managing delivery right through live service.

It’s a complex landscape and you’ll need your skills a persuasive and engaging communicator, and your experience of delivering and solving cross-cutting problems to get the job done.

You’ll join a thriving community of practice, where you’ll share best practice, insight and support with a bunch of other talented, expert Agile Delivery Managers. Together we’ll continue to embed agile into the fabric of DWP and find ways to innovate.

What skills knowledge and experience are we looking for? 

In your application you’ll need to address two key questions:

Our team and our Delivery Manager work on stuff that impacts one of the most vulnerable user groups in society. We’re looking for people who are as motivated by that unique purpose as we are, and who have the skills we need to deliver against a really challenging, important agenda.

So, in your application we’ll ask you to answer the following questions: 

You’ll need to answer the above questions in less than 250 words (each) as well as give a more general synopsis of how you meet the essential criteria in about 500 words.

For your best chance to land that interview, tailor and structure all the information you present around the above essential criteria. Just giving us your CV/employment history will not give us the insight we need to assess your application effectively.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You’ll join our team in our brilliant Newcastle hub.

We also all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.

We offer a competitive salary up to £59,589 and a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package starting at 26 days (25 days annual leave plus a day for the Queen’s Birthday).

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

CLICK APPLY for further information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs. Show us what you’ve done, what you know and what you can do in DWP.

If you have any questions or you want more tips for success, reach out to me @ Mimi.Enefiok@dwp.gov.uk before you apply.

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