Agile Delivery Manager - Consultant

Agile Delivery Manager - Consultant

Team: Agile Delivery Management

Location: Hybrid - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, or London

Commitment: Permanent - Employee

Ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user‑centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

You’ll collaborate with the product manager and team to plan the delivery of services and products that deliver our client's strategic outcomes. You'll work in multidisciplinary agile teams alongside people in design, development, and research. You’ll play a key role in determining the milestones to efficiently deliver for our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy within our clients’ governance structures.

Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.

This role involves weekly on‑site working
. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations:
Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester. As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.

Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process. SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed.

Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process. If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.

You need to comfortably deliver work against a fairly well‑defined outcome, where you understand the context you're delivering in. Please note, you must be either eligible or have active SC Clearance for this role.

• Organised a scrum team, facilitated ceremonies and workshops to reach delivery milestones
• Used a range of collaboration tools
• Knowledge of Agile, plus Scrum or Kanban;
  Waterfall experience is also beneficial.
• Experience in UK Government or experience with GDS/ UK Service Standard
• Worked in an ambiguous environment and methodically broken down complex problems
• Supported the team to tackle problems and make progress in challenging situations
• Created and iterated a team charter and ways of working
• Encouraged teams to refer their work back to the project's vision and commitments
• Identified risks and dependencies within and outside the influence of your team, and had strategies to work towards their mitigation
• Identified milestones and created plans towards delivery, and presented these to stakeholders

• Have good presentation skills and confident verbal communication
• Build strong relationships and resolve conflicts
• Provide feedback and challenge appropriately
• Are proactive and can work autonomously

There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas.

• Remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Calculating metrics and using the outcomes to effectively manage the team
• Knowledge of team coaching and other techniques to support team development
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management

Salary range: £45,000 - £55,000

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access…