Job details

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

About the job

What’s your favourite agile approach? Scrum, Kanban, Lean or something else?

This is not a traditional project management role, we’re looking for a passionate Agile Delivery Manager, who have experience of delivering software in an agile environment, to lead and enable a multi-disciplinary team through iterating a large-scale live service.

Our multidisciplinary teams and our delivery managers work on stuff that impacts some of the most vulnerable people in society and we’re looking for people who are as motivated by that unique purpose as we are!

We’re working on building Universal Credit – a modern, flexible benefits platform that replaces six legacy benefits. Already supporting six million households across Britain, we’re expanding to support a further two million. Have a look at our blog posts to learn more.

Job description

• We’re looking for someone who can do the hands-on delivery of products and end to end services. You will see them through from initiation to live.
• You'll be a true leader who serves, steering from the front. You'll remove blockers and create the right environment for your multidisciplinary teams to succeed, helping them to self-sufficiency and creating a culture of learning and transparency.
• You’ll use your agile expertise to build a culture of continuous improvement with high performing teams.
• You’ll promote user-centred design, applying it to the software development lifecycle.
• It’s a complex landscape and you’ll need your skills as a persuasive and engaging communicator. You’ll solve cross-cutting problems and use your experience of delivery to get the job done.
• We’re hiring for a theme-team Delivery Manager: You will be working with experts in software engineering, business process design, user centred design and policy development.
• You’ll join a thriving community of practice, where you'll share best practice, insight and support with a bunch of other talented, expert Agile Delivery Managers.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Experience of delivering software in an agile environment in multiple phases.
• Promoting a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamics.
• Having a proactive approach to learning and development of yourself and others.
• Exemplary leadership skills with the ability to motivate high performing teams.
• An understanding of Agile principles and practices.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with hannah.kenna@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

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.

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