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Delivery Advisor (DM)

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Delivery manager
Summary of the work
 The Business Delivery Team is the technology partner for multiple Product Delivery Units across DWP, responsible for managing, delivering and governing data products and services to meet user needs. There is a strong focus on eliciting user needs and ensuring the technology is driven by validated user need.
Latest start date
 06/04/2020
Expected contract length
 12 months
Location
 No specific location, eg they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for
 Department for Work and Pensions
Maximum day rate
 -
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
 A discovery exercise has been carried out to understand how to maximise integration and re-use potential and gain a better understanding of opportunities for integration across the existing programme. This process has produced an interim target architecture and proposed team arrangement.
Who the specialist will work with
 The specialist will work directly on a supplier-led team with team with other data and product specialists. The specialist will also work with traditional delivery and product roles within the existing programme and with SMEs across the department to ensure predictable and regular delivery.
What the specialist will work on
 1. Foster stable, highly functioning teams, responsive to user needs and capable of predictable delivery 2. Understand and advise on best processes, including how to scope, define and govern new data products and services 3. Understand what exists within existing service catalogue 4. Ensure a validated product roadmap is maintained and communicated 5. Advocate best-practice and champion re-use 6. Ensure all risks and issues are raised, suitable mitigations owned and managed 7. Ensure all necessary internal governance is completed to the required standard for new products and changes to existing 8. Identify impediments that affect the team's ability to deliver
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Location is flexible but there will be a requirement to travel to Tothill Street, London, SW1 when necessary.
Working arrangements
 Flexible - All expenses shall be capped in accordance with the buyer's travel and expense policy.
Security clearance
 Pre-arranged SC clearance is required
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 3
Cultural fit criteria
 Be a self starter and be able to independently deliver value without direct guidance or control Demonstrate ability to be transparent and collaborative when making decisions Demonstrate ability to take responsibility for their own work Demonstrate ability to be tenacious in the face of adversity Demonstrable experience in actively sharing knowledge and experiences with other team members Demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with existing teams and other supplier teams
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • 2+ years experience of driving large scale data migration project within large UK
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of successfully negotiating digital governance frameworks within large UK public sector organisation
  • 2+ years experience with pensions operational performance workflow software and data structures
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of leading a project involved with integrating on-premise services with cloud environments
  • Demonstrable experience of finance reporting within large UK public sector organisation
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of service design and implementation
  • 5+ years experience of managing digital agile delivery teams
  • Demonstrable experience, within the last 2 years of multiple delivery methodologies including flow based models and understanding the rationale for selection
  • Demonstrable experience of digital delivery to GDS standards including principles, tools and governance
  • 5+ years senior stakeholder engagement and management including demonstrable experience of building trust and strong relationships with previously disaffected stakeholders
  • 2+ years experience of working in organisations new to agile ways of working
  • Self starter, able to work without direct guidance and under their own control
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • 2+ years experience of working with digital delivery teams within the Department for Work and Pensions
  • 5+ years of working with teams delivering solutions in Amazon Web Services
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019

Delivery Advisor (DM)

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019


Specialist role:

Delivery manager

Location:

No specific location, eg they can work remotely

Organisation:

Department for Work and Pensions

Maximum day rate:

-
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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