Delivery Manager Nottingham, England
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We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice and welcome and encourage applications from everyone, such as ethnic minorities, women, disabled people and those who identify as LGBT+.
To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace and making Driving Standards Agency (DVSA) a great place to work visit our Careers page.
Are you interested in Delivery management with a passion for modernization and innovation?
Do you want to play a crucial and impactful role in ensuring the delivery of important services which contributes to maintaining high standards on Britain’s Roads?
Are you excited to lead a team in delivering new solutions that can innovate the way the DVSA work, enabling the agency to support keeping Britain’s roads safe and moving?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Job description
As our Delivery Manager, you will play a pivotable role in Tech Services, responsible for ensuring efficient and effective delivery of key projects and initiatives. You’ll lead a team of multi-disciplinary and matrix managed teams to deliver exciting delivery projects aimed at modernising the agency and improving how our colleagues carry out their duties, which keeps Britain’s roads safe and moving.
You will be involved in introducing Windows 11 and leading the roll out to the whole DVSA estate, the retender and implementation of major contracts such as Wide Area Network (WAN) and the roll out of tech to new HQ offices.
You are passionate about innovation and will provide strong leadership to your Delivery Management team, including guidance and direction as they deliver their projects, such as Tech Refresh and application roll outs. Fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
The key to successful delivery will be ensuring in-scope business requirements are delivered within time constraints. This is a critical role in the context of building sustainable capability to operate, support and improve technology services.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Leading the delivery of medium-size projects on a day-to-day basis, and supporting the delivery of larger delivery projects.
- Motivating people to deliver great customer service and optimise delivery.
- Understanding when and how to employ Agile and traditional delivery management techniques to get the best result.
- Demonstrating effective delivery management skills to multitask within tight deadlines.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive delivery plan, including scope, timelines and resource allocation.
- Monitor and report on project progress, milestones and performance metrics to senior management, stakeholders and other relevant parties.
- Demonstrate leadership by providing guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders such as external suppliers, operational teams, User Services, Infrastructure etc to ensure alignment, gather requirements and manage expectations.
For further information please see the attached candidate pack.
Person specification
To be successful in this post you will have experience of working within a large or medium complex project team. You will have competent knowledge of planning, resource management, risk and issues management, governance, assurance, and requirements management within a project environment.
You will also have had exposure to delivering IT projects/programmes as a Project/ Delivery Manager and you will have prior experience and knowledge of agile and waterfall methodologies.
You will possess strong negotiation and communication skills and have a proven ability to influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will be a strong team player and will possess leadership qualities which will be used to support and mentor a developing team.
You will have Commercial awareness where it comes to managing and monitoring project costs and budgets.
About Us
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.
We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
We’re committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams where everyone is valued. You can grow, develop and progress, and make a real difference to society.
Visit the Department for Transport careers website to read more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVSA.
Additional Information
There may be an element of travel associated with this role to other DVSA offices, with some infrequent overnight stays.
Whilst we welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time work, please note, that there is a business requirement for successful applicants to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
If you would like to read more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVSA visit our Careers website!
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How to Apply
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 tailor your CV to suit the role. For your Personal Statement, please evidence your experience of the following:
- Experience of working within in a large or medium complexity project team or work stream for small to medium projects with small to medium complexity.
- Experience of where you have demonstrated effective planning, resource management, risk and issues management, governance, assurance and requirements management within a project environment.
- Experience of where you have demonstrated excellent communication and negotiation skills when liaising with a variety of stakeholders.
- Commercial awareness experience; including managing and monitoring of project costs and budgets to deliver value for money.
- Experience of where you have demonstrated leadership qualities to support and mentor a team.
Please fully utilise the 1250 word count when completing your personal statement.
Sift and Interview Dates
The sift is due to take place from 6th June 2023.
Interviews are likely to be held from 15th June 2023.
This interview could be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
We’ll try to meet the dates we’ve set out in the advert. But there may be occasions when these dates will change. We’ll give you plenty of notice of any important dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- an interview and a presentation
If you would like to find out more about what it’s like to work for DVSA and how to apply, we will be holding virtual sessions to find out more. Please click here to secure your place at one of our upcoming events.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the candidate pack attached, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport recruits using Success Profiles. For each role, we consider what you need to demonstrate to be successful.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
You can read more about Success Profiles here.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How we hire page of our DfT Careers website.
Before submitting your application, we encourage you to visit our Recruitment in detail page of the DfT Careers website. You will find detailed information about the entire recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role in the Civil Service.Throughout this job advert there are links to the DfT Careers Website, which provides you further information to support your application. Should you be unable to access the information on our website, please email [email protected] for assistance.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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