delivery manager London, England
British Red Cross
Full Time
London, England
38153 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Job Title: Digital Delivery Manager
Job Location: UK Flexible
Salary: £38,153 per annum
Hours: 35 per week
Contract Type: Fixed term contract (12 months)
Job Location: UK Flexible
Salary: £38,153 per annum
Hours: 35 per week
Contract Type: Fixed term contract (12 months)
Are you experienced in building, maintaining and motivating teams?
We're looking for a Digital Delivery Manager to support a newly-formed Web Platform team at British Red Cross. As an agile-focused delivery manager, you'll create a collaborative environment, remove obstacles, and turn the vision into reality. You'll enable continuous delivery while supporting, facilitating and motivating the team.
We're growing the Digital team at British Red Cross to support the development of our new Web Platform. You'll join an in-house, multifunctional team building a new, full-stack platform and architecture: our goal is to support other teams across the organisation to focus on content, audiences and purpose without worrying about building, maintaining and supporting websites.
You can read more about what we've done so far in this Medium post:
https://medium.com/digital-and-innovation-at-british-red-cross/how-were-building-an-adaptable-and-sustainable-web-platform-f4312a1e9df1
https://medium.com/digital-and-innovation-at-british-red-cross/how-were-building-an-adaptable-and-sustainable-web-platform-f4312a1e9df1
A day in the life of a Digital Delivery Manager will involve:
- Delivering digital products and services by coaching teams on agile ways of working and showing the benefits of agile delivery.
- Facilitating team meetings like planning sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives for effective collaboration.
- Encouraging an innovative culture focused on adding value and challenging assumptions.
- Promoting openness and transparency, removing obstacles and ensuring smooth progress.
- Helping prioritize workloads and estimate resources and time for successful delivery.
- Providing teams with the right tools and resources to do their jobs effectively.
- Tracking progress and managing challenging situations with confidence and clarity.
- Solving procurement challenges, giving enthusiastic feedback, and maintaining positive morale and performance. Collaborating with others to support teams in delivering outcomes on time and within budget
To be a successful Digital Delivery Manager, you’ll need:
- Great organizational and communication skills.
- Strong ability to estimate and scope budgets effectively.
- Coaching skills and a collaborative approach to working with others.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and negotiation capabilities.
- Proficiency in managing risks and a focus on achieving results.
- Experience working closely with product development, digital, or innovation teams, including managing portfolios of products or services
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on the of 12th July 2023. Please note, we reserve the right to close applications early, given high volume.
In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:
- Holidays –You’ll get 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) and the option to buy an additional 5 days leave.
- Pension scheme – We offer up to 6% contributory pension.
- Flexible working – We will do what we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you.
- Learning & Development Opportunities – We are one of the UK’s largest charities and have a wide range of career opportunities. We also provide comprehensive learning opportunities for staff to develop themselves.
- Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Discount Card and our own employee benefits platform.
- Wellbeing Support – Staff wellbeing is always priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support.
- Team Working – You will be working as part of a team that is supporting our mission of helping people in crisis.
- Cycle2Work – The cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle.
- Season ticket loan – We offer an interest free loan to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work.
At The British Red Cross, we pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and ensuring we have an inclusive environment for all our staff and volunteers. We remain committed to ensuring our teams can bring their true selves to work without risk or fear of discrimination. We do this through regular data reporting, and the support of our internal Race and Equality Network (REEN), LGBT+ Network, our Disability and Wellness Network (DAWN), Gender Network, Carers Network and Youth Network.
Connecting human kindness with human crisis
British Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org.uk
London, United Kingdom
Michael Adamson
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1870
