In this role, you’ll lead one or more multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective delivery, removing barriers, and embedding agile governance that empowers teams to succeed. You will be passionate about improving organizational delivery capability and guiding teams to achieve their best, and you will be a confident leader, coach, and collaborator. You’ll also play a key part in helping UKHO drive delivery excellence, embed effective governance, and strengthen its organizational agility.
At UKHO, flexible working is our default; we trust our people to deliver outcomes. You’ll benefit from excellent learning opportunities, a collaborative and inclusive culture, and a strong community of delivery professionals.
Our work is guided by our core values: Together, Responsibility, Excellence, and Discovery.
As a Senior Delivery Manager at the UKHO, you will play a key role in strengthening our delivery capability and enabling our teams to deliver high-quality digital products and services. You’ll champion effective governance, empower teams to work collaboratively, and drive continuous improvement across the organization.
Hybrid Working
This job role can be worked on a hybrid basis, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, working between the office in Taunton and remotely within the UK. Attendance in the office is required in accordance with business needs.
Part-time hours will be considered for this role (minimum 30 hours per week).
Job Description
- Lead and support multiple delivery teams to deliver high-value outcomes, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational priorities.
- Establish and embed effective delivery governance that balances agile flexibility with accountability.
- Coach and mentor delivery teams and leaders to build maturity in enabling self-organization and sustainable delivery.
- Remove barriers to progress, manage risks and dependencies, and create the conditions for teams to thrive and maintain delivery momentum.
- Drive continuous improvement by analyzing delivery performance, identifying areas for optimization, and implementing improvements to ways of working.
- Contribute to the growth of UKHO’s wider delivery community, sharing best practice and helping to evolve our organizational delivery capability.
- Conduct internal Digital Governance Framework (DGF)/ GDS assessments and coach teams through the assessment process.
- At present, there are no line management responsibilities, but they may change in the future.
Salary: £61,605
Location: Taunton
Contract: Permanent, Flexible Working
Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
