Agile Delivery Manager - Senior Consultant

About the Position

Join us as an Agile Delivery Manager - Senior Consultant

Are you looking to turn big ideas into big results? Do you want to be a part of a supportive Agile community to help you grow in your career?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare, and purpose-driven businesses. As an Agile Delivery Manager, you’ll tackle challenges and guide teams, adding structure, assurance, and energy to complex projects that make a difference to millions of people in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients’ strategic outcomes.
• Facilitate people’s work in roles spanning design, development, and research.
• Lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients.
• Create a safe working environment for our agile teams to deliver with autonomy.
• Ensure work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Security Clearance: Either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
• Experience: Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Skills:
  • Distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve.
  • Simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team.
  • Created a team charter, agreed ways of working, and collaboratively iterated throughout the project.
  • Organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement, and self-organisation.
  • Connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions.
  • Influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project’s vision.
  • Selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics.
  • Created and facilitated workshops.
  • Fostered transparency and alignment through building trust.
• Consulting Skills:
  • Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
  • Share knowledge and best practice with fellow delivery managers and other disciplines.
  • Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
  • Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
  • Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
  • Support Opencast's growth plans by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.

Salary

£60,000 - £66,000 per annum.

We Offer

• Competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus.
• 25 days’ holiday and access to 3 annual “life happens” days.
• Wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

About the Company

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking, and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Locations

• Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

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