Junior Delivery Manager Birmingham
About the job Summary
As Junior Delivery Manager you will be accountable for the delivery of products and services within BEIS Digital. You will work with either established or newly formed multi functional teams on a variety of different project, that vary both in scale and scope. You will be expected to work with a diverse staff including both permanent and contract resources under the direction of the Head of Digital Project Delivery. The complexity or breadth of products or teams will vary in this role, depending on the context. As Junior Delivery Manager you will be expected to directly handle the delivery of a small portfolio of different projects as an individual and within broader teams reporting into a Senior Delivery Manager.
Job description
As Junior Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the building maintaining and improving the team.
In this role, you will:
• Bring together a team, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well;
• Access internal and external resources through existing governance and commercial agreements;
• Ensure that products and projects are delivered to user needs and to;
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them;
• Manage dependencies and engage with stakeholders across BEIS Digital and beyond;
• Shepheard projects through the internal and external governance;
• Work in conjunction with the architecture and assurance teams to ensure that products and services align with the appropriate standards;
• Document and report project status including managing risks, issues and dependencies;
• Support the establishment of appropriate governance for the projects and products you are involved in;
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services;
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team, creating a supportive environment for the team and space for development;
• Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
Responsibilities
These responsibilities are directly linked to the Capability Framework for the Digital, Data and Technology Profession, with the skill level assigned to each one.
• Delivery method. You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. You can recognise when something does not work and encourage a mindset of experimentation. You can adapt and reflect, be resilient and have the ability to see outside of the process. You can use a blended approach depending on the context. You can measure and evaluate outcomes. You know how to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes. (Skill level: Awareness);
• Agile and Lean practices. You are skilled in agile delivery, understanding the roles within the team and how they work together. You will be able to choose the appropriate methodology according to the circumstances and apply the appropriate approach. You will have experience of working across methodologies and choosing the correct practices for the situation at hand and be able to translate delivery principles and concepts to laypeople. (Skill level: Awareness/Working);
• Life-cycle perspective. You recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another. You can ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. You can manage delivery products and services at different phases. (Skill level: Working);
• Maintaining delivery momentum. You can facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. You can actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team. (Skill level: Practitioner);
• Documentation: you will create and maintain documentation for the delivery team capturing risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions. You will report into the BEIS Digital Portfolio board as well as any other relevant stakeholders or boards. You will monitor and track progress using the appropriate tools and techniques and you will report and escalate where necessary. (Skill level: Working);
• Making a process work. You can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You know how to guide teams through the implementation of a new process. (Skill level: Working);
• Planning. You understand the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. You can use data to inform planning. You can manage complex internal and external dependencies. You can provide delivery confidence. You can remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations. You ensure that teams plan appropriately for their own capacity. (Skill level: Working);
• Commercial management. You can act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. You understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department. You know how and when third parties should be brought into digital, data and technology (DDaT) projects. (Skill level: Awareness);
• Financial management. You know how to balance cost versus value. You can consider the impact of user needs. You can report on financial delivery. You can monitor cost and budget; you know how and when to escalate issues. (Skill level: Working);
• Team dynamics and collaboration. You know how to bring people together to form a motivated team. You can help to create the right environment for a team to work in and can empower them to deliver. You can recognise and deal with issues. You can facilitate the best team make-up depending on the situation. (Skill level: Working);
• Resourcing. You will be able to bring together a team from both permanent and contingent resource. You will be able to use the BEIS Digital commercial agreements to draw from available pools of resource or procure individuals and teams. (Skill level: Awareness).
BEIS Digital Virtual Open Evenings
Do you want to know a little more about us at BEIS Digital, our current opportunities, and how they'll work in practice?
Why not sign up to some of our MS Teams live events? We will explore who we are, as well as provide you with the opportunity to ask questions about the roles directly to our team leads and directors.
All the live events will take place between Tuesday 1st September and Thursday 10th September, so don't miss out!
To find the relevant live events of your interest, click here . You will be taken to our personalised landing page where you simply click on the job listing(s) you are interested in. There, you will find links to Eventbrite to sign yourself up. Please note, this landing page will be available from Thursday 27th August to book onto these events.
Technical Skills
You will be assessed on the following Technical Skills at Interview
1) Agile and Lean practices
You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. You are a recognised expert that advocates these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working; you are always innovating.
2 Life-cycle perspective
You can apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these. You are able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
Things you need to know Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Your personal statement (maximum 750 words) should set out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the essential skills and experience required. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
At sift you will be assessed on CV and Personal Statement.
Expected Timeline: Sift and interview dates as well as the interview location to be confirmed.
At Interview you will be assessed on Behaviours and Technical Skills.
Reasonable adjustment
..... click apply for full job details
As Junior Delivery Manager you will be accountable for the delivery of products and services within BEIS Digital. You will work with either established or newly formed multi functional teams on a variety of different project, that vary both in scale and scope. You will be expected to work with a diverse staff including both permanent and contract resources under the direction of the Head of Digital Project Delivery. The complexity or breadth of products or teams will vary in this role, depending on the context. As Junior Delivery Manager you will be expected to directly handle the delivery of a small portfolio of different projects as an individual and within broader teams reporting into a Senior Delivery Manager.
Job description
As Junior Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the building maintaining and improving the team.
In this role, you will:
• Bring together a team, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well;
• Access internal and external resources through existing governance and commercial agreements;
• Ensure that products and projects are delivered to user needs and to;
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them;
• Manage dependencies and engage with stakeholders across BEIS Digital and beyond;
• Shepheard projects through the internal and external governance;
• Work in conjunction with the architecture and assurance teams to ensure that products and services align with the appropriate standards;
• Document and report project status including managing risks, issues and dependencies;
• Support the establishment of appropriate governance for the projects and products you are involved in;
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services;
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team, creating a supportive environment for the team and space for development;
• Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
Responsibilities
These responsibilities are directly linked to the Capability Framework for the Digital, Data and Technology Profession, with the skill level assigned to each one.
• Delivery method. You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. You can recognise when something does not work and encourage a mindset of experimentation. You can adapt and reflect, be resilient and have the ability to see outside of the process. You can use a blended approach depending on the context. You can measure and evaluate outcomes. You know how to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes. (Skill level: Awareness);
• Agile and Lean practices. You are skilled in agile delivery, understanding the roles within the team and how they work together. You will be able to choose the appropriate methodology according to the circumstances and apply the appropriate approach. You will have experience of working across methodologies and choosing the correct practices for the situation at hand and be able to translate delivery principles and concepts to laypeople. (Skill level: Awareness/Working);
• Life-cycle perspective. You recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another. You can ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. You can manage delivery products and services at different phases. (Skill level: Working);
• Maintaining delivery momentum. You can facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. You can actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team. (Skill level: Practitioner);
• Documentation: you will create and maintain documentation for the delivery team capturing risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions. You will report into the BEIS Digital Portfolio board as well as any other relevant stakeholders or boards. You will monitor and track progress using the appropriate tools and techniques and you will report and escalate where necessary. (Skill level: Working);
• Making a process work. You can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You know how to guide teams through the implementation of a new process. (Skill level: Working);
• Planning. You understand the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. You can use data to inform planning. You can manage complex internal and external dependencies. You can provide delivery confidence. You can remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations. You ensure that teams plan appropriately for their own capacity. (Skill level: Working);
• Commercial management. You can act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. You understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department. You know how and when third parties should be brought into digital, data and technology (DDaT) projects. (Skill level: Awareness);
• Financial management. You know how to balance cost versus value. You can consider the impact of user needs. You can report on financial delivery. You can monitor cost and budget; you know how and when to escalate issues. (Skill level: Working);
• Team dynamics and collaboration. You know how to bring people together to form a motivated team. You can help to create the right environment for a team to work in and can empower them to deliver. You can recognise and deal with issues. You can facilitate the best team make-up depending on the situation. (Skill level: Working);
• Resourcing. You will be able to bring together a team from both permanent and contingent resource. You will be able to use the BEIS Digital commercial agreements to draw from available pools of resource or procure individuals and teams. (Skill level: Awareness).
BEIS Digital Virtual Open Evenings
Do you want to know a little more about us at BEIS Digital, our current opportunities, and how they'll work in practice?
Why not sign up to some of our MS Teams live events? We will explore who we are, as well as provide you with the opportunity to ask questions about the roles directly to our team leads and directors.
All the live events will take place between Tuesday 1st September and Thursday 10th September, so don't miss out!
To find the relevant live events of your interest, click here . You will be taken to our personalised landing page where you simply click on the job listing(s) you are interested in. There, you will find links to Eventbrite to sign yourself up. Please note, this landing page will be available from Thursday 27th August to book onto these events.
Technical Skills
You will be assessed on the following Technical Skills at Interview
1) Agile and Lean practices
You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. You are a recognised expert that advocates these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working; you are always innovating.
2 Life-cycle perspective
You can apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these. You are able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Agile and Lean practices.
- Life-cycle perspective.
BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
Things you need to know Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Your personal statement (maximum 750 words) should set out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the essential skills and experience required. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
At sift you will be assessed on CV and Personal Statement.
Expected Timeline: Sift and interview dates as well as the interview location to be confirmed.
At Interview you will be assessed on Behaviours and Technical Skills.
Reasonable adjustment
..... click apply for full job details
