Agile Delivery Manager

DWP

Agile Delivery Manager: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield

Pay up to £45,751, plus 27.1% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• What’s your favourite agile approach? Scrum, Kanban, Lean or something else?
• Want to build your Delivery career as part of the one of the biggest Agile Delivery communities in the UK
• Do you want the chance to grow your skills and career with paid-for training and development, including qualifications from scrum.org, IC-Agile and other bodies

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking to grow our Agile Delivery Management community, with roles available with a number of different multidisciplinary teams located in our various national digital hubs.

Imagine empowering and enabling agile teams to create simpler and better digital services for millions of UK citizens.

DWP is the UK’s biggest government department. 110,000 colleagues deliver services and support to over 25 million people every day, and we make payment worth over £195bn a year.

Our expert DWP Digital community is transforming those products and services using the best tech, tooling and innovative thinking.

We’re making government services simpler and easier to access and cheaper to run, and making DWP work better. It’s a generational digital transformation that is attracting the best tech talent to DWP.

This is an excellent opportunity to kickstart your Delivery Management career, as part of a vibrant and energetic Agile Delivery community. And to work with some of the best people, and the best tech, to deliver solutions that really work for DWP users.

Delivering with People.

Our Agile Delivery Managers enable expert digital teams to create, build, innovate and deliver. The level of expertise here is incredible and it’s your mission to get the best out of them.

We create psychologically safe spaces where our teams can be at their best. You’ll make sure they have what they need to deliver the best services. You’ll identify blockers and find the best way round through, and over.

Our focus is on individuals and interactions, values and behaviours – not processes tools or documentations – and we put the user at the centre of everything we do.

We use coaching, leadership and empathy to actively facilitate teams delivering products and services. It’s proper agile.

Developing a World-Class Practice.

You’ll be joining the largest Delivery community in government – a great place to grow your skills and career.

Our Agile Delivery practice is thriving with over 200 members. We lead a cross-gov community which meets once a month to share ideas and discuss emerging trends.

We’re proud of our L&D offer – continuous personal development through taught courses, book budgets, mentoring, certifications, stretch assignments and just picking the brains of hundreds of delivery professionals.

We’ve a huge portfolio of projects, so we can rotate you through different technical areas – machine learning, cloud migration, software release, user-facing services – to gain the sort of rich experience you can’t elsewhere.

Details. Wages. Perks.

This role will be based in either our Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield digital hubs.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model, so you can expect home working around 60% of the time.

We offer competitive pay of up to £45,751 per annum.

You’ll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 27.1%. That’s worth over £10,000 a year.

You’ll also generous leave package starting at 26 days, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.

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

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities

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