Digital Delivery Manager GBP550/day INSIDE IR35 - 5 months - Exeter

Digital Delivery Manager, GBP550/day INSIDE IR35 - 5 months - Exeter

Our public sector client is looking for a Delivery Manager to be responsible for the delivery of designated products and services by one or more multi-disciplinary user-centred or software delivery teams.

The responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:

1. Work with the teams to ensure the successful delivery of services. This includes planning, managing delivery progress, removing impediments and managing risks and issues.

2. Ensure the delivery teams work to agile principles and practices.

3. Drive continuous improvement within the teams.

4. Work closely with the product managers to ensure that the vision, objectives or outcomes of the team are clearly defined, well-articulated and understood by all members of the team. Work closely with key external to manage and support all activities associated with research user testing, deployments and implementation of products and services.

Essential

Practitioner level knowledge of:

- Agile practices, tools, techniques and culture - specifically Scrum and Kanban practices

- Delivery metric tracking and effective methods to prioritise and forecast delivery

- Task management, workflow or collaboration tools. eg Trello, Jira, Confluence, Slack and Miro

- Product prioritisation, delivery planning and facilitation techniques

Working level knowledge of:

- User-centred design and development and iterative agile software development techniques related to the full product life cycle

- Coaching methods to build and sustain high performing teams

- GDS service standards, technology code of practice and government service manual

- Effective risk and issues managementExcellent appreciation of the value and need to follow accessibility standards (W3C)

DEADLINE for applications: 2pm Friday 30th October