Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Senior Delivery Manager
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Job Summary
ICS
The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a shared corporate service. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).
Our team of over 400 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.
We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
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Job Description
Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of products and services within ICS Digital. You’ll collaborate with established or newly formed multi-functional teams on a variety of projects, varying in scale and scope. These projects may involve internal services delivered in conjunction with the technology team or public-facing initiatives in partnership with the Digital and Data team.
The complexity and breadth of the products or teams you manage will depend on the context. As a Senior Delivery Manager, you’ll directly oversee the delivery of multiple projects or large, complex products composed of different teams. Additionally, you’ll provide leadership and oversight across a broader portfolio of projects.
Furthermore, you’ll actively participate in a diverse community of Digital Delivery practitioners, contributing to its growth and success.
Visit our blog to learn more about us and our work: https://icsdigital.blog.gov.uk/
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the building maintaining and improving the team. In this role, you will have the following responsibilities.
- Leading Large and Complex Projects: You’ll take the lead on significant and intricate pieces of work, which may involve coordinating multiple teams.
- Supplier and Partner Management: You’ll be responsible for procuring and managing suppliers and delivery partners.
- Financial Oversight: Managing costings, budgets, and project finances will be part of your role.
- Team Building and Motivation: Bringing together a cohesive team, ensuring their motivation, collaboration, and effective work.
- User-Centric Delivery: Ensuring that products and projects meet user needs and adhere to agreed-upon time and cost constraints.
- Obstacle Identification and Resolution: Identifying obstacles and helping the team overcome them.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Managing dependencies and engaging with stakeholders across ICS Digital and beyond.
- Governance and Alignment: Shepherding projects through internal and external governance processes, working closely with architecture and assurance teams to align products and services with appropriate standards.
- Status Reporting: Documenting and reporting project status, including managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Effective Governance: Establishing appropriate governance structures for the projects and products you’re involved in.
- Prioritisation: Focusing the team on what is most critical for successful product and service delivery.
- Continuous Improvement: Encouraging and facilitating continuous improvement within the delivery team, fostering a supportive environment for growth and development.
- Coaching and Mentoring: Providing guidance and mentorship to team members and others, emphasising the application of agile and lean tools and techniques.
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The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake some additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.
As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.
Essential Criteria
We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in the following areas, ideally within digital transformation projects in large and complex organisations:
- Proven expertise in delivery methods, including identifying, comparing, experimenting, adapting, and measuring outcomes.
- Proven experience in financial management, balancing cost versus value, and understanding the impact on user needs.
- Strong background in Agile and Lean practices, with the ability to understand team roles, apply appropriate methodologies, and explain delivery principles to non-experts.
- Expert in life-cycle perspective, recognising stage transitions, ensuring adherence to service standards, and managing delivery across different phases.
- Experience in maintaining delivery momentum in a complex organisation, facilitating team flow, managing pace, and proactively addressing internal and external risks, issues, and dependencies.
When completing your CV, as part of the application please ensure to include the time you have worked for your organisations/ employers, and your key objectives in each role.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Competency: Agile and lean practices (Level: Expert)
- Competency: Life cycle Management (Level: Practitioner)
Alongside your salary of £56,900, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £16,483 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
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Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Work Strengths Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 06/08/2026. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.
You will be directed to the Talogy - True Talent – Scheduled Maintenance Window Webpage for online tests during an outage.
Please note: Our online test supplier will be performing scheduled maintenance between BST (London) 4pm-7pm/ ET (US Eastern) 11am-2pm. on 02/08/2026. You will be unable to access tests during this period.
If you are in the middle of a test when the maintenance begins, your progress will be paused. You will be able to resume your test from where you left off via your application centre once the downtime has ended. Please note that you will not be able to launch any new tests while the system is offline.
Candidates will need to pass the Civil Service Work Strengths Test before submitting the full application.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to describe how your past experience relate to the essential criteria outlined in this job description, focusing on your most recent career history.
Applications will be sifted on CV and personal statement.
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