Delivery Manager - Public Sector

Overview

In this role you will drive agile delivery across one or two workstreams for government projects, shaping outcomes through pragmatic delivery management. You will coach teams, balance planning with adaptive approaches, and build strong client relationships to translate needs into feasible delivery plans.

You’ll foster a healthy, high-performing team culture and contribute to the delivery management community through coaching and best-practice sharing. This is a hands-on, impact-focused role within a values-driven organisation that partners with AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and more to deliver customer success.

Pay / Benefits

• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Career progression and mentorship programmes
• Flexible/remote working
• Pension and private healthcare
• Wellbeing schemes and activities
• Educational assistance and certifications (AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat)

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery in one or two workstreams with agile approaches tailored to team and client needs
• Manage planning, risks, issues, and ensure on-track delivery; mitigate potential problems
• Act as key client contact to understand needs and translate them into delivery plans
• Optimize team culture, performance, and health; enable high performance and innovative ways of working
• Contribute to the delivery management community of practice and coach other delivery managers

Key requirements

• Breadth of agile experience across frameworks and lifecycle stages in service or software delivery
• Strong relationship-building and emotional intelligence; stakeholder management
• Excellent listening and written/verbal communication; ability to handle sensitive conversations
• Experience planning, coordinating, and delivering multi-disciplinary projects; manage feasibility, risks, dependencies
• Servant leadership with the ability to motivate a diverse team and foster positive culture
• Commercial acumen with understanding of contract frameworks, budget and risk management
• Adaptability to different client contexts and teams
• Emotional intelligence
• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Agile methodologies
• Delivery management in gov or software projects
• Stakeholder management and collaboration

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