Senior Agile Programme Manager

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

• Are you an experienced Agile Programme Manager? Want to use your skills to support and enable some really big, complex Agile programmes?
• Can you help up deliver products and services that work better for the millions of DWP users that need them?
• Looking for great work life balance, including flexible working hours, hybrid working, and flex-friendly policies?
• Want a pension worth 27.9% of your salary - up to £17,000 a year?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Agile Programme Manager to join our DWP Digital community.

We're delivering a once in a generation transformation of public services. You will work with multiple suppliers to support and manage complex commercial relationships, and work with multiple delivery teams full of the UK's best tech talent.

You'll be working on our Digital Health and Disability programme.

Our services enable some of the most vulnerable users in society to access the financial support they need, because of their health condition or disability. We're looking for people who are as motivated by that unique purpose as we are.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.

The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Delivery. Work. Projects.

As our Senior Agile Programme Manager you will work really closely Lead Delivery Manager to support the objectives our of Health & Disability portfolio. That includes hugely important areas of work like Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

You'll lead on the co-creation of Statements of Work for supplier teams with Delivery Managers and Supplier Management.

You will work with Supplier and Business Management teams to ensure service, headcount, budget and commercial vehicles are in where they need to be.

You will support teams in the use of JIRA and Confluence in ways which assure both value delivery and appropriate reporting.

This includes encouraging consistency or compliance with appropriate standards, making sure programme artefacts are complete, up to date and available.

You'll support our Delivery Managers with ongoing delivery planning activities, ensuring we're working from complete and meaningful consolidated plan

And when we need to engage new suppliers and bring in new tools, you will lead on the creation of commercial requirements.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience of agile and lean practices- helping high performing teams to continuously improve
• Share information and setting standards for other teams, using tooling such as Atlassian suite and Mural.
• You will have experience of: digital funding models, drafting contracts / statements of work, cost models, resourcing, and budget management in line with best practice.
• Ability to build relationships with a broad range of teams and individuals including: business management, supplier management, technical teams, product managers, senior stakeholders and third-party sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Communicating with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.
• Experience working with multiple suppliers to support and manage complex commercial relationships
• You're able to lead a continual planning process (coping with rapid reprioritisation) in a complex environment.
• You can identify and manage risks and dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.And onward reporting at Sprint level to support Programme level reporting.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.

In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £60,781.

You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%, worth up to £17,000 a year.

You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 20th August 2023