Salary: £72,100
Closing date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract until end of July 2026
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health.
We are looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team on a fixed term basis.
Where in Wellcome will I be working?
You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager. In this role, you will matrix work with teams in the Digital & Technology department.
What will I be doing?
You will work with one of our technical project, product, or workstream teams to deliver frequent value to our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle. You will work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them.
As a Delivery Manager, you will:
* Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards.
* Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance product team ways of working.
* Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution, and collaboration with other departments.
* Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery.
* Be the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates.
* Support with informed goal setting, having a familiarity of sprint goals and OKR setting techniques.
* Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs.
Is this job for me?
The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in Wellcome’s mission and strategic priorities, as well as someone who:
* Has minimum 2 years experience working as a delivery manager, scrum master, or agile project manager.
* Is experienced working collaboratively with subject matter experts, product managers, designers, user researchers, and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully.
* Is experienced evaluating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
* Has an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving.
* Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs.
* Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties.
* Is committed to EDI, ensuring an inclusive approach is taken into product and workstream delivery.
To apply for this role please submit an updated CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Interview dates W/C 12 May and 26 May (2nd Interview).
Our Hybrid Way of Working
We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.
At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.
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