Pay from £69,869 - £89,995, up to 30.3% employer pension contributions, hybrid work with home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
- Are you an agile expert? Can you coach, orchestrate and lead multiple teams of digital experts, as well as other Delivery specialists?
- What's your favourite agile approach? Scrum, Kanban, Lean or something else?
- Do you want to grow your skills and career, and those of your team, with unlimited learning, including via IC Agile, Scrum.org & other training bodies?
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
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 payments worth over £195bn a year.
Our expert DWP Digital community is delivery a generational transformation of government products and services that is attracting the best, purpose-driven tech talent to DWP.
Our teams work in a unique context, and on an epic scale. We have an extraordinary mission to make DWP services work better for the people that need them. We'd love you to join us.
Delivering with People.
This is not a traditional project management role, we're looking for an outstanding Lead Agile Delivery Manager, who will join the Retirement leadership team to represent all aspects of delivery.
You should have experience of delivering software in an agile environment, and be able to lead and enable a multi-disciplinary team through multiple phases.
In DWP our Agile Delivery Managers enable expert digital teams to create, build, innovate and deliver.
You'll lead and work with real digital experts, permanent civil servants, contractors, and suppliers. 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 those experts can be at their best.
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.
Developing a World-Class Practice.
Our Agile Delivery practice is thriving with over 200 members and you'll have a leading role.
We lead a cross-gov community which meets once a month to share ideas and discuss emerging trends. We're a centre of expertise for Agile in government and beyond.
And the opportunities for learning for you and your teams are unlimited. Our people have access to experts from across our community and across DWP Digital, for coaching, mentoring, sharing ideas and lots more.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in our Digital Hub based in your choice of either Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model, with some time at home and some in the office.
In return for your skills, we offer a competitive pay from £69,869 to £89,995. We'll make you an offer based on our assessment of your capability - if you score really well at interview we can make you a higher offer.
You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 27.9% - 30.3%.
For a starting salary of £70,000, for example, that would mean DWP put nearly £20,000 in your pension pot each 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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