EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Experience setting up new delivery teams and processes, adopting and adapting project management methods/tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches and more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches
- Demonstrable experience of successfully planning and managing large digital projects including software development and infrastructure services
- Significant experience of managing complex supplier relationships and multidisciplinary teams throughout delivery, with understanding of technical implementation and decisions taken, digital planning, managing internal and external dependencies, risks and issues
- Experience in managing team dynamics, demonstrating servant leadership, coaching teams to improve flow, quality and ownership throughout the team. Dealing with conflict and help establish a positive team culture
- Experience of guiding teams to focus on the output rather than the process. Helping a team to find and establish a process that works for them
- Strong stakeholder management experience including working with and presenting to steering boards
- Demonstrable history of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience of managing projects which require proof of accessibility standards compliance and/or accessibility software compatibility
