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Job Title:  Senior Delivery Manager Salary:  £50,900 - £68,000 Location:  Cambridge/Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office Contract:  Permanent  Hours:   Full time 35 hours per week Are you passionate about agile delivery and enabling teams to deliver impactful, data-driven outcomes? We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.  We're looking for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager to join our growing team and help lead the delivery of enterprise data, transformation, and visualisation products and services. In this pivotal role, you'll work within a product-focused, cross-functional team delivering application and enterprise-level data capabilities, including data warehousing, transformation, reporting, and insight solutions. You'll foster a culture of continuous improvement, enable high-performing team, and help shape the delivery approach across a complex technology landscape. About the role    What you will do: Champion agile values and principles, acting as a role model for collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and servant leadership. Lead and support a cross-functional team delivering data and digital capabilities in a complex enterprise environment. Facilitate effective delivery through strong planning, dependency management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Help teams optimise flow, improve predictability, and continuously improve ways of working. Own and support release and delivery management processes, ensuring robust governance and successful product launches. Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Technical leads to support prioritisation, road-mapping, budgeting, and strategic planning. Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across the organisation. Work closely with Service Delivery Managers to ensure effective operational management of live services, including incident, problem, and change management considerations. Ensure technical debt, platform stability, resilience, and operational sustainability are appropriately represented in planning and prioritisation. Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery impediments across teams and workstreams. Coach and support the development of colleagues and contribute to the evolution of agile delivery practices across the organisation. This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.  About You  Proven experience leading agile delivery within cross-functional technology teams using Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile approaches. Strong understanding of agile principles, lean delivery practices, and continuous improvement. Experience delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or transformation initiatives in enterprise environments. Strong leadership and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and motivate teams without direct line management responsibility. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. A data-informed mindset, with a focus on outcomes, experimentation, learning, and delivering measurable value. Experience working closely with engineering, architecture, product, and operational teams. If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following  desirable  criteria:  Experience delivering enterprise data warehousing, data transformation, BI, analytics, or visualisation solutions. Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems. Familiarity with operational service management practices and ITIL environments. If you're ready to lead with agility, enable high-performing teams, and help deliver meaningful enterprise transformation, we'd love to hear from you! For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site. We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's  Offer of an Interview  commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the  gov.uk  website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible  rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:  28 days annual leave plus bank holidays  Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance   Discretionary annual bonus   Group personal pension scheme  Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary   Green travel schemes   Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be  [Date].  We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after. Please expect the following process when applying or this position.  Your CV without a cover letter  4 application questions First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview. Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.  Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.  Why join us   Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.   We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

The Infrastructure team resides within the innovative and progressive Digital and Technology Directorate and is embedded in a major and exciting three year legacy displacement programme. The directorate is a welcoming group of over 100 multidisciplinary professionals, all focused on building, delivering and supporting secure, modern and efficient digital and technology services. This role leads the infrastructure team with responsibility for the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure and digital solutions and services and the effective deployment of resources. About the Role We are looking for an accomplished Digital and Technology Infrastructure Services Manager to join us and lead a team of engineers and their workload. You'll mentor, coach and help develop the team as well as work-load manage business as usual with projects. This is a great opportunity for you to apply your broad skills across a range of systems and services and to provide technical leadership, working collaboratively with key stakeholders and external parties in supporting and working closely with Digital and Technology teams, security advisors and senior management to provide solutions design, expertise and assurance to projects and programmes. You will help develop and maintain Digital and Technology infrastructure and platform policies and procedures, and work with senior management to develop the cyber security strategy. SC-level Security Clearance or willingness to obtain SC clearance is mandatory for this role and requires that you have lived in the UK for the last 3 years. The length of required residency may depend on individual circumstances. About You We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic senior manager who will play a major role in the delivery of Digital and Technology services, from legacy system improvements / replacements through to digital and IT transformation. You will work closely with the various Digital teams and the Cyber Security team to design, create and improve new and existing products and services and you will work with business users, delivery teams and suppliers to identify and resolve issues and user needs. You must have very good, broad experience and knowledge of working in a Digital and Technology support environment using a variety of tools to support the management and delivery of production services. You should have experience across all IT service delivery activities including service management, incident management, change management, release management, configuration management, continual service improvement and customer satisfaction as well as playing a role in ensuring the highest levels of operational service delivery. A key part of this role is core infrastructure lifecycle management, ensuring clear and effective roadmaps and taking responsibility for their upgrades or replacements as required. Aligned with this is working with partners to help deliver the service and contract management of these third parties, including support and maintenance contract renewals. The role incorporates budget responsibility for the infrastructure and associated services, working alongside Finance and Procurement colleagues on renewals and supplier performance management. In addition to the activities outlined above, you must have people management experience to lead a team of infrastructure engineers, delivering a range of IT services. Benefits • You will be based in a beautiful setting by the River Thames in Kew with staff parking and good transport links. • An opportunity to work a hybrid working pattern • A comprehensive benefits scheme including a generous Civil Service pension, a subsidised on-site coffee shop and restaurant, season ticket loans, on-site gym and clubs. • 25 days leave rising incrementally to 30 days after six years (plus 10.5 days public and privilege holidays each year) • Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to your role and an agreed development plan. • Influencing the strategic objectives and the opportunity to define, design and implement improvements. • An opportunity to use or learn a wide range of skills. This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time. Application Process: Interviews: Interviews will be held onsite, no earlier than week commencing 4th May Applications: You will be asked to provide answers to 5 questions relating to the key requirements for the role, and to provide your work history. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.  Please visit the Civil Service Careers website where you can find further information on the use of AI in the application guidance section. Sponsorship: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for an experienced technology leader to support strategic direction for our technology services, someone who is values driven and supports our mission, people and front-line services.  This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for the delivery, resilience and continuous improvement of the organisation’s technology estate including workplace technology, infrastructure, networks, IT service management and will involve working with third-party suppliers.  Working closely with the IT Manager, you’ll provide day-to-day operational oversight while also leading technology projects and improvement programmes that modernise systems, strengthen resilience and embed best practice. You’ll act as a trusted point of contact for technology change across the organisation — listening to colleagues, understanding their needs and translating them into practical, effective solutions.  You will also support with the procurement and management of IT goods and services, ensuring strong supplier performance, value for money and responsible use of resources. Providing a responsive, customer-focused IT service is central to this role. You’ll ensure high-quality advice, effective support and timely resolution of issues for colleagues across the organisation.  The role requires a strong background and understanding of IT, as well as of our organisations key priorities, challenges, creativity, and pragmatism. You should be able to apply best practice from across the technology sector, adapting for our not-for-profit organisation where value for money, resource management, and effective frontline services are essential.  This varied role will include specific responsibility for: Working with colleagues to understand organisational needs, challenges, and opportunities, and translating these into clear, evidence-based technology requirements Lead the mobilisation of new technology products and services across their full lifecycle, from identification and business case development through to implementation, adoption, optimisation, and retirement Ensure product and service roadmaps are aligned with organisational priorities, user needs, and available resources Oversee change management and user adoption activities to ensure new products and services are embedded effectively across the organisation Balance strategic oversight with hands-on involvement to ensure successful delivery and ongoing value from technology investments Lead and deliver technology projects and continuous improvement programmes to modernise systems and strengthen organisational resilience - translating organisational needs into practical and well-evidenced technology solutions Lead on cyber security, including security controls, patch management, system updates, risk identification and mitigation Lead and support the organisation in achieving and maintaining Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation Ensure strong cyber security practices are embedded and consistently applied across the organisation Ensure infrastructure, applications and devices are proactively monitored, secure, compliant, and well maintained Apply technology best practice in a pragmatic way, adapted to the needs and constraints of a not-for-profit organisation  We will support your ongoing professional development with access to training and membership of professional networks.  We can offer full time (37.5 hours) or part-time hours, subject to a minimum of 30 hours, with the expectation of some flexibility to attend evening meetings and undertake national travel. The post will be based in our Head Office in Stockport. Our offices are readily accessible on public transport as we are based in in the centre of Stockport close to the mainline train station.  For more information about this role please do not hesitate to contact Tracey Cornhill by email to Tracey.Cornhill@creativesupport.co.uk  Vacancy Reference Number: 84299 Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number   Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, free life assurance, 38 days Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.   We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.  Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship and we are unable to accept applicants with Skilled Worker Visas .