Yolk Recruitment Ltd
Agile Delivery Manager
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Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Newport (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £55,000 29% Pension Flexible Working
The Opportunity
Yolk Recruitment are excited to collaborate with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as it progresses through a digital transformation journey, prioritising forward-thinking digital best practices. As a Stonewall Diversity Champion, the organisation supports sexual orientation and gender identity equality, belonging to Britain’s leading best-practice employer forum in diversity and inclusion.
The role involves supporting a multi-disciplinary service squad in delivering new and existing digital products and services. As Agile Delivery Manager, eligible for SC security clearance, you will be responsible for ensuring effective delivery across the squad—balancing Agile best practice with pragmatic execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate core Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning sessions, reviews, retrospectives).
- Support team planning, estimation, prioritisation, and delivery against business objectives.
- Manage workflow from backlog to completion, using flow metrics where applicable.
- Track progress, milestones, risks, and dependencies, providing clear delivery reporting.
- Serve as the primary delivery liaison with product, technical, and programme stakeholders.
- Represent the team at programme-level forums, escalating risks and issues as needed.
- Remove blockers, and proactively manage delivery risks and incidents.
- Drive continuous improvement in Agile maturity and team performance.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies to achieve aligned, predictable delivery.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven ability to lead Agile, cross-functional delivery teams.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps principles.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Skilled in facilitating Agile ceremonies and enabling team collaboration.
- Proficient in tools like Azure DevOps and flow metrics for data-driven decision-making.
- Experience in risk management, progress reporting, and supporting decision-making.
- Certified Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager (preferred); familiarity with DSIT/CDDO frameworks advantageous.
Benefits
- Pension contribution: Up to 29%.
- Flexible working: Arrange 37.5 hours per week between 5am–10pm.
- 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays (increasing to 30 days).
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About Yolk Recruitment
The Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team assists UK organisations in meeting recruitment needs and D&I objectives. We support permanent, contract, and temporary hires for both specialist purposes and large-scale campaigns. Our further offerings include helping applicants navigate public sector recruitment processes to secure their ideal roles.
Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embrace diversity within our workforce. We hire the best-qualified candidate for each role, regardless of background. We actively encourage applications from all individuals, celebrating gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, and gender identity recognition.
Ever since, we’ve been committed to championing and celebrating diversity, empowering our team to bring their whole selves to work.
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