About the role
The Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for technical delivery of change across multiple products and/or features, ensuring alignment across multiple agile delivery teams who coordinates technical change activities across multiple Agile teams, providing delivery coaching as required. The Agile Delivery Manager will have the gravitas to be able to track and report on delivery status to multiple stakeholder groups, in addition to being accountable for continuous improvement of change delivery activities for multiple functional/product areas.
In addition, the Agile Delivery Manager will act as a Coach for senior management teams, stakeholders and customers in Agile practices to ensure adoption of best practice from the top-down and is able to influence and lead cross functional delivery and process improvement initiatives across the organisation.
Key accountabilities:
1. Facilitate Agile ceremonies across your product areas, including some organisational wide planning activities ensuring they take place, are positive, productive and professional
2. Relentless focus on delivering value, and comfortable with challenging cross functional delivery teams to ensure value is delivered
3. Raise awareness of impediments, then facilitate the removal in our mission to continually improve
4. Work with other Agile Delivery Managers to increase the effectiveness of Agile Delivery throughout the organisation.
You can find the full job description in the attached role profile below.
Skills, qualifications, and experience
5. Educated to Degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience
6. Significant experience of leading and managing multiple cross functional delivery Agile teams
7. Scrum Master and/or RTE certified and extensive experience in a previous similar role
8. An Agile enthusiast able to flex methodologies according to an organisation and its customers’ needs
9. The Gravitas to be able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior management and exec
10. Demonstrable experience of multiple delivery successes delivering value to clients on time and within budget
11. Demonstrable Experience of leading and driving agile delivery transformation across organisations.
Package
Salary – up to £60,000
12. 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)
13. Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
14. A generous pension scheme
15. Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox
16. Internal training and development
17. Subsidised gym and café
18. Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme
19. Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion
Studies have shown that some groups of people are less likely to apply to a role unless they tick every box. At UCAS, we recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to delivering a fair and equitable recruitment process where applicants have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their skills. So, if you are interested in this vacancy, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still apply.
If you have any questions and would like to find out more about the role before applying please email the Talent Acquisition team via careers@ucas.ac.uk and one of us will be in touch.