Delivery Manager

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation with various locations across Scotland, are currently looking to recruit a Delivery Manager until the 31st of March 2027 on a rate of £560/day (InsideIR35). This role will have flexible working arrangements. Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Product Managers, internal delivery teams, and a diverse range of external partners in a fast-paced environment to develop, maintain, and adapt delivery plans.
• Working with other delivery teams, both internally and externally, to manage work in progress and ensure that dependent work is tackled accordingly.
• Helping the delivery team to identify and implement a process that works for them - including bringing potential improvements to the focus of the team - allowing for effective and sustainable value delivery.
• Identifying, addressing and managing risks, issues and dependencies that will impede the effective delivery of the product or service.
• Coach and mentor members of your team, and others, on the most appropriate application of Agile delivery tools and techniques to better support ways of working.
• Effective co-ordination of team resource to maintain the team's momentum of progressing priority deliverables while balancing outside asks. Essential Skills:
• Experience in coaching and training both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and Lean tools and techniques
• Proven track record of working with Product Managers (or Product Owners), business stakeholders and multi-disciplinary roles within an agile delivery team
• Experience in co-ordinating deliverables in collaboration with other teams and disciplines
• Experience in managing, communicating and escalating team level risks.
• Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
• Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
• Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work
• Experience communicating complex, confidential and often sensitive information with a range of staff across the organisation and with external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
• Ability to work with minimal supervision; to plan and prioritise own workloads, and that of your team; and to meet deadlines
• Flexible approach to learning and problem solving
• Commitment to own personal and professional development, and that of your team
• Effective in communicating both the plan and progress against the plan to a range of stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Ability to solve issues and unblock problems; to drive teams, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments and identifying opportunities for process improvement
• Ability to translate complex technical information to simpler language to support internal and external stakeholder understanding
• Proficient in adapting to change and supporting others to adapt.
• Ability to manage internal and external stakeholders across different levels of seniority
• Ability to respond to confidential and sensitive situations with confidence and discretion, utilising tact, diplomacy, and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to collate and produce reports and statistical information
• Line management skills and experience including coaching and/or mentoring of team members
• Proven expertise in using Microsoft 365, in particular Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
• Values driven approach to practice, aligned with core values. Desirable Skills:
• Honours Degree level qualification with related in-depth experience or SCQF Level 10 equivalence obtained via Professional Development Awards; Graduate or Professional Apprenticeships; and SVQs
• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification
• Professional Kanban I (PK I) certification
• Experience of working in teams delivering and maintaining technology platforms
• Experience of delivering presentations to large audiences on a local and/or national basis to enhance engagement and collaboration
• Experience of working flexibly in complex/sensitive environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined
• Expertise in accessing, analysing and presenting a wide range of complex information to a range of audiences
• Working knowledge of issue tracking software such as Jira or MS DevOps
• Sound understanding of the application of GDPR to the storage and use of personal information and data privacy If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.