Company:
Zazu-Digital
Location: London
Closing Date: 17/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Are you ready to make an impact in one of the UK's most dynamic and transformative public sector organisations? We are recruiting for the role of
Delivery Manager
within the in-house digital product and services department of a groundbreaking public sector entity that's reshaping the way public services are delivered.
The Role
: Delivery Manager
As a Delivery Manager, you'll play a pivotal role within the Digital and Data Service space, specifically in the Delivery Team. Your primary responsibility will be to take charge of defining, documenting, and safely executing medium to large-scale projects. You will actively engage with stakeholders across all project phases and be instrumental in identifying specific measures and mechanisms for delivering and monitoring benefits. Additionally, you'll contribute to selecting the most appropriate means of representing service requirements in the context of change initiatives and conduct business impact assessments to understand how changes will affect business units and roles.
The Delivery Team is not just a department within Digital and Data Services; they are the catalysts that enable teams to achieve greatness together. They lay the groundwork for success, fostering an environment where team members can take responsibility, make decisions, and work together cohesively. Our team is driven by a culture of openness, enabling us to deliver work that aligns with our organisation's values and purpose.
About You To excel in this role, you should bring:
Transformational Leadership: Highly motivated, collaborative, and entrepreneurial problem-solving skills to drive innovative solutions that prioritise the needs of both the Council and our Residents. Effective Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, allowing you to communicate with authority, negotiate effectively, and influence others. Technical Expertise: A strong understanding of processes, workflows, tools, and methodologies. Project Management Proficiency: Project management experience in custom-designed, full life-cycle projects. You have a creative approach to problem-solving and project management. Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to build influential relationships with internal and external users, suppliers, and partners at the senior management level. Agile Mindset: Knowledge of project management best practices and the use of Agile and Lean tools and techniques. You understand agile delivery principles, practices, and methods.
Technical Knowledge and Experience Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience. Proficiency in project management principles, methods, techniques, and tools for effective project management from initiation through implementation. Proficiency in identifying, assessing, and managing project risks. Ability to prepare and present business cases, requests for proposals, invitations to tender, and statements of requirements/work. Proficiency in modelling and understanding a business and its operation.
Relationships: Act as the spokesperson for your project team that you work within; clearly communicate with stakeholders about the progress of the team. Manage external technology and delivery partners; be responsible for negotiation of contracts. Manage cross-functional project teams throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring a strong project team culture through collaboration and communication.
On offer is a competitive salary, one of the best pension schemes available, and a highly flexible working model that champions work/life balance, including hybrid working (2 days in the office per week). You will have the opportunity to be part of one of the most ambitious, pioneering, and intellectually challenging places to work in local government.
Apply now and join the team in driving the organisation's transformation and playing a key role in shaping its future.
Delivery Manager
within the in-house digital product and services department of a groundbreaking public sector entity that's reshaping the way public services are delivered.
The Role
: Delivery Manager
As a Delivery Manager, you'll play a pivotal role within the Digital and Data Service space, specifically in the Delivery Team. Your primary responsibility will be to take charge of defining, documenting, and safely executing medium to large-scale projects. You will actively engage with stakeholders across all project phases and be instrumental in identifying specific measures and mechanisms for delivering and monitoring benefits. Additionally, you'll contribute to selecting the most appropriate means of representing service requirements in the context of change initiatives and conduct business impact assessments to understand how changes will affect business units and roles.
The Delivery Team is not just a department within Digital and Data Services; they are the catalysts that enable teams to achieve greatness together. They lay the groundwork for success, fostering an environment where team members can take responsibility, make decisions, and work together cohesively. Our team is driven by a culture of openness, enabling us to deliver work that aligns with our organisation's values and purpose.
About You To excel in this role, you should bring:
Transformational Leadership: Highly motivated, collaborative, and entrepreneurial problem-solving skills to drive innovative solutions that prioritise the needs of both the Council and our Residents. Effective Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, allowing you to communicate with authority, negotiate effectively, and influence others. Technical Expertise: A strong understanding of processes, workflows, tools, and methodologies. Project Management Proficiency: Project management experience in custom-designed, full life-cycle projects. You have a creative approach to problem-solving and project management. Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to build influential relationships with internal and external users, suppliers, and partners at the senior management level. Agile Mindset: Knowledge of project management best practices and the use of Agile and Lean tools and techniques. You understand agile delivery principles, practices, and methods.
Technical Knowledge and Experience Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience. Proficiency in project management principles, methods, techniques, and tools for effective project management from initiation through implementation. Proficiency in identifying, assessing, and managing project risks. Ability to prepare and present business cases, requests for proposals, invitations to tender, and statements of requirements/work. Proficiency in modelling and understanding a business and its operation.
Relationships: Act as the spokesperson for your project team that you work within; clearly communicate with stakeholders about the progress of the team. Manage external technology and delivery partners; be responsible for negotiation of contracts. Manage cross-functional project teams throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring a strong project team culture through collaboration and communication.
On offer is a competitive salary, one of the best pension schemes available, and a highly flexible working model that champions work/life balance, including hybrid working (2 days in the office per week). You will have the opportunity to be part of one of the most ambitious, pioneering, and intellectually challenging places to work in local government.
Apply now and join the team in driving the organisation's transformation and playing a key role in shaping its future.
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