Offre d'emploi Senior Delivery Manager - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - G7

A Senior Delivery Manager is accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high risk products and services. Within Defra, you could be helping to protect homes and businesses from flooding, make our air and rivers cleaner, protect animals and the environment, support farmers, and ensure food security.

Skills and experience

This role is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework for senior delivery managers: 

• Agile and Lean practices: You can coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean good practices. You know how to create and tailor the right approach for a team, challenging, evaluating and iterating the approach through the life cycle. You can experiment with new and innovative ways of working to improve delivery across the organisation. You act as a recognised expert and advocate for Agile and Lean approaches

• Commercial management: You can take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. You know how to identify appropriate contractual frameworks and appropriate suppliers, and how to ensure good value through negotiation

• Communication skills: You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. You can manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity even within constrained timescales. You can speak on behalf of, and represent the community to, large audiences inside and outside of government

• Financial management: You know how to influence or create budgets that are complex. You can manage the budget you are given and make it work

• Life-cycle perspective: You know how to work and consult with the right people at the right time to move through the product life cycle and deliver value. You can use evidence to decide when a team should continue, change direction or stop. You can identify tools and techniques required at different phases, and know how to guide colleagues and stakeholders through the entire life cycle.

• Maintaining delivery momentum: You know how to optimise the delivery flow of teams. You actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team, or no clear ownership exists. You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues.

• Making a process work: You can identify and challenge organisational processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You can guide teams through the implementation of a new process.

• Planning: You know how to lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery, and plan beyond delivery. You are able to coach other teams as the central point of expertise.

• Team dynamics and collaboration: You choose the right type of feedback at the appropriate time and ensure the discussion and decision stick. You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them.