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Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: Wednesday 29th May

Interviews: w/c 10th June

Grade: Grade 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: National: £54,358 - £61,585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,517).

London: £58,847 - £66,670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,828).

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 87121

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

Were recruiting for a Senior Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategic Initiatives team.

This role aligns against Senior Delivery Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

You will form part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the delivery of a range of outcomes in support of the wider Technology Services teams. You will play a key role within the team whose deliverables include :-

• Identifying and documenting existing and future Technology, Service and Security landscapes and Strategies,
• Identifying and preparing market ready requirements,
• The development of Business Cases,
• Supporting Commercial and Financial processes,
• Supporting Service Design and Architecture,
• The Transition of services from supplier to supplier or in-house,
• Deployment of technology or services across the MoJ estate,
• Exiting of services from incumbent suppliers,
• Tracking and reporting on Performance and Finance forecast and spend,
• Business and Stakeholder engagement and communication

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Delivery Manager you will be accountable for supporting the delivery of a set of complex programmes, projects, products and services that are being delivered by multiple teams or have high technical or political risk. You will be responsible for:-

• Optimising the delivery flow of teams
• Managing stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
• Negotiating, influence or set budgets in complex environments
• Writing or input into business cases and can communicate business-value propositions
• Actively addressing the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists
• Identifying innovative ways to unblock issues
• Leading a continual planning process in a very complex environment
• Identifying dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery
• Taking responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers
• Identifying appropriate contractual frameworks and identify appropriate suppliers
• Negotiating with and get good value out of contracts and suppliers

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

 Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

 Person Specification

Essential

• Experience in effectively delivering complex, high risk products and services. You can solve issues and unblock problems. You can lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. You can engage in elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks. You can manage various dependencies across teams, departments and government as a whole.
• You have experience in taking a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and roadmapping. You can communicate plans, planning assumptions and progress to a range of stakeholders. You can maintain the cadence of delivery and manage the relationships between different people within and across teams.
• You have experience in and can understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run them. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases, into live and then into retirement. You can lead a team through the different phases of the product delivery life cycle. You can maintain and iterate a product over time to continuously meet user needs. You can understand incident management and service support to ensure that products are built effectively.
• You have experience in communicating effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. You can advocate on behalf of a team and communicate what it does, to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully respond to challenges.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance. 

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Job contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : [email protected]
• Telephone : 0845 241 5359

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]