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Job Summary
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Are you an experienced and passionate Senior Delivery Manager capable of leading multi-disciplinary teams to discover, deliver, and iterate excellent digital products and services?
Can you effectively manage multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex digital products and services, focusing on user needs, and navigate technical challenges while engaging effectively with senior stakeholders?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!
Job Description
Active Travel England (ATE) is seeking a skilled Senior Delivery Manager to play a crucial role in shaping our growing digital services. As a digital professional in ATE, you will lead the delivery of key digital initiatives in line with approach set out in the Government’s Service Standard. You will be responsible for the scoping and managing delivery teams with a mix of internal and external resources provided by collaborative delivery partners.
Working collaboratively with internal teams and external suppliers, you will ensure adherence to internal governance frameworks and proactively work to unlock technical issues faced by your team. You will be a champion for Agile and Lean practices, embedding them within your teams and across the wider agency. You will contribute to strategic decision-making for ATE's digital future and help shape our delivery community.
The Senior Delivery Manager will be accountable for the delivery of complex and high-risk digital products or services that meet the needs of our users.
Active Travel England (ATE) is seeking a skilled Senior Delivery Manager to play a crucial role in shaping our growing digital services. As a digital professional in ATE, you will lead the delivery of key digital initiatives in line with approach set out in the Government’s Service Standard. You will be responsible for the scoping and managing delivery teams with a mix of internal and external resources provided by collaborative delivery partners.
Working collaboratively with internal teams and external suppliers, you will ensure adherence to internal governance frameworks and proactively work to unlock technical issues faced by your team. You will be a champion for Agile and Lean practices, embedding them within your teams and across the wider agency. You will contribute to strategic decision-making for ATE's digital future and help shape our delivery community.
The Senior Delivery Manager will be accountable for the delivery of complex and high-risk digital products or services that meet the needs of our users.
Person specification
Key Responsabilities Of The Role Include
* Leading the discovery and development of digital services, translating user insights into actionable delivery plans, contribute to the digital strategy and road-map, and ensure development priorities align with business needs and strategic objectives.
* Owning the relationship with Department for Transport (DfT) Digital team and ensuring our development and cloud approach is aligned with wider priorities, whilst overcoming any technical blockers or challenges.
* Be accountable for the product delivery, manage teams through all delivery phases, coach and mentor other delivery managers, and address complex risks, issues, and dependencies. Ensure all products are developed following Government Digital Service (GDS) requirements
* Provide expert leadership and coaching in Agile and Lean practices, tailoring the approach to suit different life-cycle stages, and fostering effective collaboration within teams.
* Identify and challenge inefficient organisational processes, guide teams through implementing improvements, experiment with innovative ways of working, and lead continual planning in a complex environment.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
Personal Specification
You are someone who can lead with clarity and purpose in a fast-paced digital delivery environment. You’ll have a track record of delivering successful digital products and services through the agile delivery lifecycle—ideally aligned with the Government Digital Service Standards. You’re confident using a range of agile and lean tools and techniques, and you know how to empower multidisciplinary teams to work in a self-organising, inclusive and continuously improving way.
You can spot opportunities to improve how things are done and are comfortable adapting approaches to meet changing needs. You thrive on Delivering at Pace, managing multiple priorities without losing sight of quality, user needs or delivery deadlines.
You're someone who sees the wider picture, understanding how your work supports broader strategic goals and working confidently across organisational boundaries to make things happen. You're able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike, and you build strong, trusted relationships—whether that’s with internal colleagues or external suppliers. You have skills in setting direction, supporting others to grow, and creating an environment where people feel empowered and focused on delivery.
You’re also someone who understands the contractual side of delivery—identifying the right frameworks, managing complexity, and negotiating effectively to get the best outcomes.
Additional Information
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Occasional Travel To Other DfT Offices Will Be Required.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Delivering at Pace
* Leadership
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Agile and Lean practices
* Commercial management
* Communication between the technical and non-technical
Alongside your salary of £54,857, Active Travel England contributes £15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Please note, the above example is based on the National minimum salary. The employer pension contribution will be 28.97% of your specific salary.
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and 1000 word personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Role
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
* Demonstrable experience of leading delivery using a range of Agile and lean tools and techniques, empowering and coaching agile teams to be self-organising, inclusive and continuously improving.
* Demonstrable experience in delivering multiple successful digital products and services through the agile delivery lifecycle for example following the Government Digital Service Standards.
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively across organisational, technical and non-technical audiences.
* Demonstrable experience identifying appropriate contractual frameworks and taking responsibility to negotiating and manage complex relationships with suppliers.
Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 1000 words.
The sift is due to take place from w/c 30th June 2025.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held w/c 14th July 2025.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
* An interview.
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile and the Digital, Data and Technology Framework, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Document Accessibility
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
* Name : Chris Stewart
* Email : chris.stewart@activetravelengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : DFTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact Government Recruitment Services via email: dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website Here #J-18808-Ljbffr