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The base salary for this role is up to £54,421, with a negotiable market supplement up to £20,000, based on the successful applicant's qualifications and experience.

Location

Blended between office and home in the United Kingdom

About the role

This is a hugely exciting opportunity for a Head of Delivery who understands how to lead a team and to help its members to learn and grow to be effective as possible in their roles.

You’ll be joining an award-winning team dedicated to developing and maintaining user-centred product and services. This will help meet the needs of many of our user groups - from applying to a course, to finding research collaborations and much more.

This team is hugely ambitious. We need someone who is accountable for the delivery of key strategic projects and the overall planning and measurement of complex services.

This position is being offered on a full-time, permanent basis.

Your responsibilities

You’ll need to:

• lead and motivate multiple multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they make progress and create services that meet users’ needs
• be accountable for the phasing and delivery of the team’s work against the overall vision for the product using Agile methodologies
• ensure teams clearly communicate their approach, plans and learning
• identify the people, skills and resources that the teams need to deliver towards the agreed goals
• identify, communicate and manage risks, issues, dependencies and blockers
• manage stakeholders to ensure good relations and effective communication
• lead in the University’s delivery management community, by learning, sharing and applying skills and knowledge

Your skills and experience

You’ll need to have experience working at a senior level in user-centred design, with either the skills needed for or some experience in:

• successfully delivering digital projects and services, leading from initiation to delivery and support whilst planning, coordinating and motivating teams through the full product lifecycle
• stakeholder management and the ability to mediate and communicate with stakeholders at all levels (senior to executive) and between organisational, technical and departmental boundaries
• Agile methodologies and how they help deliver products and services at scale
• flexibly managing and deploying people, teams, and other environmental factors to resolve and manage impediments, blockers and risks
• providing support and constructive feedback as they move through the lifecycle phases
• managing and mentoring team members, and providing them with guidance, training and constructive feedback

This is an exciting time for the University of Southampton and we would love you to join us!

The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work life balance with generous holiday allowance, flexi-time and flexible working. For more information on our benefits, please visit the HR pages. To read more about the team and its ethos, visit our recruitment pages.

How to apply

Submit the following documents through our online application form

• CV
• Statement of suitability/covering letter (2 pages maximum) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience relevant for this role

If you want to talk first, please contact Ayala Gordon, Associate Director - Digital User Experience.

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need any assistance, please call the HR Recruitment Team on +44 (0) 23 8059 4043 or email [email protected] Please quote reference 2097622CD-R on all correspondence.

We are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, and equality of opportunity. We select candidates based on merit and ability and aspire to thrive in the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all candidates with an interest in the role and those who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities

Further details:

• Job Description and Person Specification