Delivery Manager

Salary: £54,400 – £75,700 Closing date:
Wednesday 11 November 2026 Contract type:
Permanent Interview dates: 1st stage – w/c 11 November 2026 (online/Remote); 2nd stage – w/c 2 December 2026 (face to face)

- Digital & Technology

You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department. In this role, you will matrix work with teams in the Digital & Technology department. We currently have several projects and product/workstream teams, whose work consists of public-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, data infrastructure, a bespoke CRM system for all our grants and IT teams. We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects.

You will work with one of our technical projects, product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle. You will work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them.

• Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards
• Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance ways of working in product teams, workstream teams and technology teams
• Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments
• Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery
• Be the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates
• Support with informed goal setting techniques, enabling teams to work with sprint goals and OKR
• Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs

We are looking for someone who:

• Has previous experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master in a digital & technology environment
• Is experienced working collaboratively with subject matter experts, product managers, designers, user researchers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully
• Is experienced evaluating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
• Has an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving
• Has strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs
• Has proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties

• Experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master delivering data & digital products, programmes or work streams in digital & technology environments
• Practical experience applying agile concepts such as Scrum and Kanban
• Experience working with OKRs or similar goal setting frameworks
• Experience working with different types of agile product teams with varying maturity and complexity

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

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