Lead Delivery Manager - Grade 6

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Lead Delivery Manager - Grade 6

£59,232 - £68,259 - Telford, Newcastle, Shipley, Manchester, Liverpool, Southend

Background

This is an exciting opportunity to join HMRC's IT Delivery team where you will be supporting a large scale and radical transformation that will have a profound impact for both the customers and the staff of HMRC has one of the largest IT estates ranging from data analytics platforms to complex legacy systems. The breadth, variety and complexity of these systems and business processes they support are on a scale rarely seen in other global organisations.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Lead Delivery Manager to take ownership of an exciting portfolio of HMRC programmes and projects during a time of significant change and transformation as HMRC drives the focus of IT delivery away from product centric solutions and fully exploits the opportunities that Digital Services and Data Analytics can provide. This position will play a key role in delivering IT change that will take HMRCs complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems whilst decommissioning a large proportion of the legacy systems.

Role Requirements

In this role you will take responsibility for a range of large, complex, or high impact projects and through a team of skilled project and programme managers deliver business initiatives and large scale change that supports the delivery of HMRC's strategic objectives. This will be achieved through maintaining a strategic overview of a portfolio of projects, establishing frameworks for delivery, and leading from the front in setting and communicating a clear programme vision for both the IT Delivery team and the wider business stakeholders.

This is a demanding role where you will need to engage across HMRC's business to ensure that business requirements are understood and translated into operational plans that deliver tangible benefits. This will involve managing and monitoring programme costs and operational budgets; staffing requirements and resource plans; inter-dependencies and programmes risks; and the management of multiple supplier and delivery partner relationships

As part of the IT delivery Leadership Team you will engage at a strategic level with involvement in setting objectives and influencing policy and practice within IT Delivery and the wider CDIO group. You will also play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong IT Delivery capability by empowering, supporting and developing staff to achieve the highest performance standards.

Essential Criteria

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential experience -

* Proven experience of managing a broad range of technical and business change projects / programmes against a backdrop of large scale organisational change

* Proven experience of simultaneously managing multiple projects that cut across different areas. Understanding how these fit together, managing inter-dependencies, putting in place appropriate governance structures and ensuring a strategic approach to their delivery.

* Proven Commercial Management of project costs and multi million pound budgets

* Proven experience of managing delivery in a multi-supplier environment, including the management of supplier relationships and performance.

* Understanding and practical experience of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

* Proven experience in developing capability within an organisation, including empowering, supporting and developing staff to achieve the highest performance standards including mentoring and influencing senior individuals.

* Proven experience of engaging at a strategic level leading on technical and business change and playing a key role in setting organisational objectives, influencing policy and effectively communicating this to both business and technical stakeholders.

Highly Desirable Experience

* Either have or work to achieve professional IT qualifications such as Prince2, CIPT, APM, MAPM

Key leadership behaviours

* Setting Direction - Seeing the Big Picture

* Delivering Results - Delivering at Pace

* Engaging People - Leading and Communicating

* Setting Direction - Making Effective Decisions

Staff working within this role will be required to work to the Civil Service Project Delivery Standards

SFIA Competencies

* Programme Management - Level 6

Selection process details

An initial sift of your CV will be conducted against the Essential Criteria. If your CV demonstrates experience of these essential criteria you will be contacted to arrange a telephone based screen. The telephone screen will further assess your experience against the Essential Criteria and will be carried out by Experis at a time to be agreed with you. If you successfully complete this stage of the process your application will be progressed to the next stage. The applicants with the best skills and experience will be invited to interview, where you will be required to provide evidence as to how you meet the above competencies and technical requirements. Interviews may include an additional assessment exercise or presentation exercise. Please note that your CV MUST demonstrate evidence of the Essential Criteria for you to be progressed to telephone screen and beyond.

Further information

For further details and candidate information, please visit the CS Jobs website (www civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk). Applications must be made to the CS Jobs website by 11:59pm on Friday 22nd July. Any applications made after this time will not be considered. If you require support or would like to discuss how to potentially strengthen your application before applying, please contact James Spence-Evans at Experis who will be able to help you.