AMS PSR

On behalf of The Money and Pensions Service we are looking for a Lead Delivery Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Hybrid working with occasional travel to London. 

As a Lead Delivery Manager your main responsibilities will be:

• Establishing and maintaining the best methods of delivery between PDP and suppliers and setting standards and expectations (frequency of standups, regular reporting etc) used across all digital teams.
• Dealing tactfully but firmly with ambiguity and conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.
• Managing plans, risks, issues and dependencies with effective escalation where necessary, owning them until they are resolved.
• Onward reporting of progress at Programme Board level.
• Actively manage change and governance activity, working closely with other programme colleagues.
• Working with stakeholders across the ecosystem to ensure all interdependencies are jointly owned and managed between parties.
• Helping develop and utilise meaningful metrics and visualisations to measure progress and provide reassurance that the project remains on track .
• Taking steps where progress has slowed to remove blockers and get delivery moving again, escalating where appropriate.
• Owning and building relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders.
• Ensuring there is two-way communication between teams in order to set and achieve shared goals.

Essential:

• Evidence of providing delivery direction on a large or high-profile digital or technology project.
• Substantial knowledge and application of agile ways of working, particularly demonstrating an agile mindset to coach and lead technical delivery teams.
• Experience of having successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle, optimising the delivery flow of teams and identifying innovative ways to unblock issues across or between all stages of the product life cycle.
• Evidence of leading a continual planning process in a very complex environment, plan beyond product delivery and delivery of sustainable, supportable digital products/services.
• Experience of working with technical and service teams. Tackling challenging situations with tact and sensitivity.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in central government, delivering against Government Digital Service (GDS) Standards,
• Experience within the pensions industry and/or Department of Work and Pensions, Pensions Directorate
• A good understanding of issues within a large development programme
• Experience of establishing ways of working and leading diverse teams
• Experience of helping construct and deliver messages across all stakeholders on a project, ensuring they are communicated with on a consistent basis.

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

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".