Senior Delivery Manager (Band 2/Grade 7)

Health and Safety Executive

Apply before Midday on Monday 7th October 2024

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Details

Reference number

369559

Salary

£60,760 - £65,776

Standard

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Grade 7

Band 2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HSE - Operational Services Division (OPS)

Type of role

Digital
Information Technology
Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Bedford, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, York

About the job

Job summary

As a Senior Delivery Manager you will be responsible for leading Agile teams, working on user centred business/service digital products, to lead and enable a multi-disciplinary team through multiple phases and ensure that the team is motivated and clear on their priorities through management of Azure Dev Ops boards and regular communication. The Senior Delivery Manager will ensure clarity of scope, manage blockers/issues and have experience of delivering services in an agile environment.

This role requires the interpersonal skills to establish professional credibility quickly and the energy and drive to deliver collaborative change. You will join a flourishing, supportive digital community helping HSE lead, drive and deliver significant change across the organisation, as part of a challenging transformation and change portfolio.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

Job description

The Senior Delivery Manager will report directly to the Deputy Director, Head of Digital and you will be responsible for the following:

• Establishing and maintaining the best methods of delivery and setting standards and expectations (frequency of stand-ups, regular reporting etc) used across all digital teams.
• Dealing tactfully but firmly with ambiguity and conflict and help establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.
• Managing plans, risks, issues and dependencies with effective escalation where necessary, owning them until they are resolved.
• Onward reporting of progress at Project/Programme governance
• Actively manage change and governance activity, working closely with other programme/project colleagues
• Working with stakeholders to ensure all interdependencies are jointly owned and managed between parties.
• Helping develop and utilise meaningful metrics and visualisations to measure progress and provide reassurance that the project remains on track and taking steps where progress has slowed to remove blockers and get delivery moving again, escalating where appropriate.
• Owning and building relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders and ensuring there is two-way communication between teams in order to set and achieve shared goals.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility, shared accountability and team working is required, and the role-holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Hybrid Working - At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need.

Person specification

We’re looking for someone who can do the hands-on delivery of products and end to end services and see them through from initiation to live. You will be a true leader who steers from the front and who removes blockers and creates the right environment for the multidisciplinary team to succeed. You will use your agile expertise to build a culture of continuous improvement and promote user-centred design, applying it to the software development lifecycle.

You will solve cross-cutting problems and use your experience of delivery to get the job done, utilising experts on a day to day basis in engineering, business process design, user research, user experience design, operations and policy. In addition, you will share best practice, insight and support with other talented colleagues in the Digital Team and wider. 

Essential Skills and Criteria:

• Experience of leading the delivery of digital products and service standards.
• Experience of delivering products and services at pace in an agile environment and creating the environment for success.
• Experience of working with other digital, data and technology (DDaT) roles, job families and professions in a multi-disciplined team as well as a good understanding of agile principles and practices.
• Experience of having successfully lead teams through the full product life cycle, optimising the delivery flow of teams and identifying innovative ways to unblock issues across or between all stages of the product life cycle.
• Evidence of leading a continual planning process in a very complex environment, plan beyond product delivery and delivery of sustainable, supportable digital products/services.
• Translating technical terms and facilitating relationships with business stakeholders.
• Communicating in a straightforward, honest, and engaging manner with the ability to understand, empathise with, negotiate and influence individuals, stakeholders and groups, ultimately able to promote a healthy team culture, managing team dynamics and fostering a continuous improvement environment.
• Experience of meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels, bringing insight and expertise to ensure user needs are met by the business.

 Qualifications

• A relevant Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager qualification for eg: Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance or equivalent.

Qualifications

A relevant Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager qualification for eg: Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance or equivalent

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £60,760, Health and Safety Executive contributes £17,602 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

We invest in our people with;

• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 28.97%, far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
• Parental leave benefits
• As a member of HSE you will gain access to a wide range of fantastic benefits that you can take advantage of such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application Information

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete the following: 

• A CV that displays your career history, skills, experience and qualifications 
• 500 word Statement of Suitability based on the essential criteria above 
• 250 words behavioural example

Sift Information 

The sift is due to take place the week commencing 07/10/2024. You will be assessed on your CV, Personal Statement and Lead Behaviour. 

In the event of a high number of applications at sift or that pass the interview standard we will assess on the lead behaviour Changing and Improving.

Interview Information

The interviews are due to be held during the week commencing 14/10/2024. You will be assessed on the Behaviours listed in the advert.

Please note the sift and interview dates could be subject to change due to panel availability.

Further Information

Please note that a Reserve List will be held for the period of up to 12 months as further positions may become available subject to business requirement.

AI Tools & Platforms

During the application process candidates are allowed to utilise AI (artificial intelligence) platforms and Tools to support them in writing their Behaviours, CV’s and Personal Statements. However, all information submitted must be factually accurate. This includes presenting the ideas and experience of others, or those generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. All presented information will be assessed at the Interview Stage.

Sponsorship

This role is not open to application from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship your application will be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment will be withdrawn.

It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application. For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached HSE Terms and Conditions document. The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

HSE is proud to be a part of the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS). As a Disability Confident employer, we positively welcome applications from disabled people. We are committed to making workplace adjustments to ensure anyone can participate in the recruitment and selection process. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for all disabled applicants who provide evidence of meeting the minimum requirements necessary for the post. If, during the application or interview process, you require any assistance due to a disability or a medical condition, please contact us at the email address below to discuss how we can support you.

For example if you have a disability, and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: hr.resourcing-team@hse.gov.uk

If successful in securing your role, HSE can provide suitable workplace adjustments to support you throughout your career with HSE.

Any move to HSE from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here

Please note, if you are a current civil servant and you are currently undergoing any of the following formal actions your application will not be progressed any further; Formal discipline action, any formal action regarding attendance, poor performance or any restriction of duties as a result of disciplinary action.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)