Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Newport (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £55,000
29% Pension
Flexi-Working
The Opportunity
Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through an incredible digital transformation whilst prioritising forward thinking and excellent digital practices. Alongside this, they pride themselves on being a Stonewall Diversity Champion, which means they are part of Britain's leading best-practice employers' forum for sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity and inclusion.
We are now looking to help them find a talented an Agile Delivery Manager (eligible for SC clearance) support a multi-disciplinary service squad delivering new and existing digital products and services. You will be accountable for effective delivery across the squad, ensuring work is planned, tracked, and delivered efficiently while balancing agile best practice with pragmatic delivery.
Key Responsibilities
1. Facilitate core agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives).
2. Support team planning, estimation, prioritisation, and delivery against business goals.
3. Manage workflow from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics where appropriate.
4. Track progress, milestones, risks, and dependencies, providing clear delivery reporting.
5. Act as the primary delivery interface with product, technical, and programme stakeholders.
6. Represent the team at programme-level forums, escalating risks and issues as needed.
7. Remove blockers and proactively manage delivery risks and incidents.
8. Drive continuous improvement in agile maturity and team performance.
9. Manage cross-team dependencies to ensure aligned and predictable delivery.
Essential Skills & Experience
10. Proven ability to lead agile, cross-functional delivery teams.
11. Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps principles.
12. Excellent communication skills, with experience working across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
13. Skilled in facilitating agile ceremonies and enabling team collaboration.
14. Proficient in using tools like Azure DevOps; familiar with flow metrics for data-driven decision making.
15. Experience managing delivery risks, reporting progress, and supporting decision-making.
16. Certified Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager; understanding of DSIT/CDDO frameworks is an advantage.
What will the Agile Delivery Manager get in return?
17. Pension: Up to 29%
18. Full Flexi-Time - Work your 37.5 hours on any schedule between 5am and 10pm
19. 25 Days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays (Increasing to 30 days)
Think this one's for you
If you think this Agile Delivery Manager opportunity is for you then please apply online.
Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.
Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.