Senior Delivery Manager

We’re looking for an experienced and forward thinking Senior Delivery Manager to help shape and mature our agile delivery capability at the UK Hydrographic Office.

In this role, you’ll lead one or more multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective delivery, removing barriers, and embedding agile governance that empowers teams to succeed. You will be passionate about improving organisational delivery capability and guiding teams to achieve their best and you will be a confident leader, coach and collaborator. You’ll also play a key part in helping UKHO drive delivery excellence, embed effective governance and and strengthen its organisational agility.

At UKHO, flexible working is our default we trust our people to deliver outcomes. You’ll benefit from excellent learning opportunities, a collaborative and inclusive culture, and a strong community of delivery professionals.

Our work is guided by our core values:
Together, Responsibility, Excellence, and Discovery. As a Senior Delivery Manager at the UKHO, you will play a key role in strengthening our delivery capability and enabling our teams to deliver high quality digital products and services. You’ll champion effective governance, empower teams to work collaboratively, and drive continuous improvement across the organisation. UKHO offers flexible working, with this role also open to part time, job share and compressed hours.

This job role can be worked on a hybrid basis, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, working between the office in Taunton and remotely within the UK. Attendance in the office is required in accordance with business need.

Part-time hours will be considered (minimum of 30 per week)

• Lead and support multiple delivery teams to deliver high value outcomes, ensuring alignment with business goals and organisational priorities.
• Establish and embed effective delivery governance that balances agile flexibility with accountability.
• Coach and mentor delivery teams and leaders to build maturity in enabling self organisation and sustainable delivery.
• Remove barriers to progress, manage risks and dependencies, and create the conditions for teams to thrive and maintain delivery momentum.
• Drive continuous improvement by analysing delivery performance, identifying areas for optimisation, and implementing improvements to ways of working.
• Contribute to the growth of UKHO’s wider delivery community, sharing best practice and helping to evolve our organisational delivery capability.
• Conduct internal Digital Governance Framework (DGF)/ GDS assessments and coach teams through the assessment process.
• At present no line management responsibilities but may change in the future.

• Strong leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to inspire, guide and develop teams to deliver high quality digital products and services.
• Deep understanding of agile delivery principles, practices, and governance with the ability to adapt frameworks pragmatically to suit organisational context and maturity.
• Proven experience leading complex digital deliveries across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring effective collaboration and accountability.
• Skilled in improving delivery performance and organisational agility through continuous data driven insights, and the removal of systemic barriers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to align diverse perspectives and maintain focus on shared outcomes.
• Experience in developing and embedding delivery governance at scale within an agile organisation.
• Active participation in agile or delivery management communities, sharing knowledge and best practice.
• Sound knowledge of modern digital delivery practices, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and iterative delivery of value.