Agile Delivery Manager - Senior Consultant (Contract)

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Ready for a new challenge?

Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We're a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role

You'll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients' strategic outcomes. You'll facilitate people's work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.

You'll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You'll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.

Essential experience

You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.

In your CV, please show how you have:

• distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve

• simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team

• created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project

• organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self-organisation

• connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions

• influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project's vision

• selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics

• created and facilitated workshops

• fostered transparency and alignment through building trust

• are proactive, and can work autonomously

• challenge appropriately and resolve conflict

• help others to successfully work through challenges

• support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships

• contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work

• experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.

• experience working in agile delivery teams

In the interview, we'll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We'll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Salary

From £450 per day

Where you'll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We'll make any adjustments to help you.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com