We are looking to recruit a Senior Delivery Manager to coordinate a number of policy areas within the new team and potentially wider. This will entail bringing together a number of teams working on different elements of a wider programme of work to ensure visibility of work, understand any dependencies and risks to delivery and most importantly ensure policy alignment of the wider programme work. The delivery manager will also manage the governance processes and ensure relevant reporting into Ofgem central teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver projects using Agile methodologies, act as scrum master, leading and coordinating Agile ceremonies ( stand up/planning/retrospectives/show and tell).
* Work with the Head of TPIs and Policy Leads (Product Owners) to define the roadmap for any given product or project and support the team to break work down to stories they can deliver (using Jira).
* Protect the team from outside distraction and make sure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on mutually agreed priorities.
* Facilitation of / support set up and delivery of workshops to support policy delivery.
* Own and deliver project delivery status reporting (sprint reports fortnightly and GEMA reporting monthly) including tracking and reporting delivery against milestones, risks, dependencies.
* Management of governance of processes:
* ensure a robust governance process is in place so we are clear of decision pathways and RACI.
* Risks/issue management including identifying, management and reporting risks/issues/delivery.
* Dependency mapping (for visibility) and management of dependencies;
* Decision recording so we have a clear audit trail and evidence of all key decisions.
* Coordinating comms and stakeholder engagement activity.
* Planning of any future policy work and associated resource requirements.
* Lead and develop a team to deliver consistently high performance against objectives.
Key Outputs and Deliverables
* Fortnightly sprint reports.
* High level programme road maps and detailed project delivery plans.
* Risk log (working with Portfolio Senior DM to capture risks in central ARM tool).
* Budget reporting (if appropriate).
* Resourcing coordination.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
* Relevant, applied experience of managing time critical programmes of work with multiple workstreams using agile principles/tools and techniques. (Lead criteria)
* Planning experience (developing high level road maps, detail project plans).
* Experience of identification, management and monitoring of risks, issues and dependencies.
* Experience of engaging with internal/external stakeholders to resolve blockers to delivery.
* Development and ongoing project reporting experience.
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of programme / project management in a policy / government / public sector context.
* Good internal and external stakeholder management and engagement skills.
* Experience of using Jira.
* Experience of managing budgets and resources.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Delivering at Pace
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Communicating and Influencing
* Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of 47,895, OFGEM contributes 13,875 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
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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
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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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
* Name : Jamie Wright
* Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Further information
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In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.
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