Digital Agile Coach

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Location:

Newcastle city centre - 3 times per week

Job Description

Description of the role As a Senior Agile Delivery Manager within Digital & Data you will work with your team to champion agile and lean ways of working and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role involves:

- Helping your team collaborate effectively in a fast paced, transparent, multi-disciplined environment that is working at scale with multiple delivery teams.

- Being core at breaking down barriers for your team, and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen, whilst working on unblocking dependencies with other teams..

- Being an active member of the delivery community of practice sharing and learning with others

Responsibilities

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will:

- Manage delivery in a complex and emergent environment, involving multiple teams and senior stakeholders, building momentum and managing multiple competing demands.

- Lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, in order to deliver services that meet users' needs.

- Provide useful and accurate delivery metrics to facilitate continual improvement.

- Facilitate an inclusive team environment, where innovation and challenge are welcomed.

- Deliver to agreed goals and milestones by actively tackling risks / blockers, and escalating where necessary.

- Develop, guide and coach the team, to continually improve effectiveness, efficiency and cohesion.

- Engage stakeholders - building strong relationships with people across teams in IBCA;

Person Specification

The right person for this demanding role will have:

- Experience of digital delivery in an agile environment, with multidisciplinary teams, building momentum and managing multiple competing demands.

- Promoting a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamic;

- Have a proactive approach to learning and development of yourself and others;

- Experience of planning delivery of outcomes, coping with uncertainty and managing risks and dependencies across a number other teams - Experience in the use of agile principles and approaches in a large, complex and fast paced environment

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