Salary: £33,300 - £43,400
Location: Cambridge
Contract: 12 month Fixed term, 35 hours per week
Are you passionate about innovation and delivering high-quality solutions? As an Agile Delivery professional, you will lead cross-functional teams to achieve project goals efficiently, leveraging agile methodologies to enhance collaboration and streamline processes. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders, continuously improve team performance, and contribute to transformative projects. Join us and be part of a forward-thinking team.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
You will utilise agile methodologies to enhance collaboration and streamline processes, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products that meet customer needs. This role offers the opportunity to shape the role and leave a lasting legacy within the team.
In this role, you will:
* Drive innovation and continuous improvement within the team.
* Foster a collaborative and agile work environment.
* Deliver projects that align with business objectives and customer expectations.
* Enhance team performance and productivity.
This role is crucial for driving the success of transformative projects. It involves close collaboration with stakeholders across various departments and contributes to the overall business strategy by delivering high-quality solutions.
About you
We are a dynamic team that invests in continuous improvements. What we seek from the role holder includes the following:
We are seeking a candidate with strong leadership, collaboration, and consensus-building skills. The ideal candidate will possess excellent written and verbal communication abilities, ensuring clear and effective interactions with team members and stakeholders. They should have a proven track record in project management, demonstrating the ability to deliver projects on-time, on-budget, and to predetermined quality criteria. Additionally, the candidate must be adept at multitasking and managing conflicting demands, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution.
We are looking for a candidate who is driven by a passion for continuous improvement and innovation. The ideal candidate will foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team, consistently motivating team members and fostering a "can-do" attitude to achieve project goals. Additionally, they will support the development and growth of team members through coaching and mentoring.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
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
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis and reserve the right to close this vacancy once we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's 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's 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.
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