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Job summary
The National Archives is looking for an experienced Delivery Manager.
At The National Archives we aspire to create outstanding digital services for our users (government, the public, students and academic researchers). This is a key element of our ambitious vision to transform our services, ensure the public record thrives and survives, and open up access to 900 years of British history.
As Delivery Manager in the Access to Digital Records team you will be responsible for delivery managing services and providing free and open access to Case Law via https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
You will work within a blended multi-disciplinary product team made up of in house staff and contractors. The team will comprise of a service owner, product owner, back-end and front-end developers, user researchers, designers and data specialists.
Job Description
Full job description attached (see below).
Person specification
Essential
- A proactive, passionate, positive and delivery focused expert and strong advocate of Agile product delivery practices. You will have practical experience in a range of Agile methods, frameworks, methodologies and tools, and understand which best to apply in a given situation
- User-focused, with proven experience of delivering robust, secure and inclusive digital products that meet user needs, technical requirements, legal or policy constraints and the quality expectations of the business.
- Comfortable working in a continuous learning environment, dealing with ambiguity and change and balancing multiple priorities.
- Skilled at building trust, reflecting, motivating and challenging the team, and innovating to create or tailor new ways of working.
- Strong diplomacy and negotiation skills, allowing you to engage with team members, colleagues and senior stakeholders, build effective relationships and achieve buy-in collaboratively.
- Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams who may work across one or more projects, with a proven ability to build a positive team culture
- Support teams in becoming self-organising and coaching and mentoring team members who are new to Agile ways of working. We expect team members to come and go as their skills are needed.
- Experience of developing product roadmaps, structuring and tracking work, managing spend and communicating and forecasting progress and velocity.
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- Knowledge of Jira, Confluence or other work tracking tools.
- Experience of coaching and motivating and empowering your team who are managed by others.
- Understanding of the digital landscape, with experience of relevant sector(s) (government, archives, UK case law, information services, culture and heritage).
- Understanding of data formats and cloud platforms.
- SC clearance or ability to obtain (3 years residence in UK)
This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department.
A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time.
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