The public sector client is looking to recruit an Agile Digital Delivery Manager for a 6 month temporary contract, which enables you to work remotely until the restrictions ease, thereafter, you will be able to work at one of the clients hubs listed : Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle or Leeds.

Core Purpose
Senior Agile Delivery Managers required who have scrum experience and are able to manage agile teams

Summary of the Role and key responsibilities 
1.Help high performance teams to continuously improve, share information and set standards for other teams
2. Helps develop and utilise meaningful metrics in order to drive teams towards their goals and understand areas for improvement
3. Creates a safe and supporting environment for all teams, encouraging them to experiment and making failure a safe part of learning.
4. Leads by example, acting as a servant-leader demonstrate the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism
5. Owns and builds relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, senior stakeholders, management and third party sub-contractors utilising effective and appropriate governance mechanisms. Managing complex team dynamics between external and internal stakeholder groups to ensure the team is aligned to and understands the same objectives
6. Work with technology and business teams to ensure that new products & services are delivered effectively to realise measurable benefits
7. Supports the Product Owners to define and build the digital delivery roadmap and translate into an achievable backlog
8. Drive the creation of the business case for complex projects, co-ordinate activities across stakeholder groups. Iterate the business case throughout the lifecycle of the project. Establishes good practices to be followed when building and maintaining a business case
9. Design, facilitate and lead workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, driving out outcomes and establishing the pace of delivery
10. Manage risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) and help resolve escalations from junior members of the agile delivery manager community
11. Drives the pace of delivery across projects and programmes, responsible for owning key blockers till they are resolved and guiding other members of the delivery community to help them deliver effectively
Able to recognise when to move from one stage of the product lifecycle to another, ensuring the team is working towards the appreciate service standards
12. Manage external assurance groups, that they are appropriately engaged and aware to enable them to avoid any risks related to formal approvals
13. Ensure funding is in place and track spending and forecasts regularly and accurately
14. Leads agile events across multiple projects and sets the standards for agile project management, ensuring business and delivery teams are working to a common, shared objective and vision to deliver specific outcomes
15. Work directly with multiple suppliers to manage complex commercial relationships
16. Communicating with impact across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, tailoring messages to ensure that it is right for the audience
17. Encourage and nurture a culture of working in an agile manner utilising agile delivery principles

The successful candidate will have a valid DBS or be willing to apply for one on CV submission or when a job offer has been made and accepted. This assignment sits inside IR35.

About the Rates of Pay: Please note: The higher pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest Ltd or Umbrella Company pay rate that the client is willing to pay up to and the lower pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest PAYE pay rate, that the client is willing to pay up to, unless otherwise specified. If the PAYE rate is not indicated in the job advert then please contact us for confirmation of the PAYE daily pay rate.