Delivery Manager

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Job Description

Salary: Base salary: £38,500pa to c.£45,350pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Delivery Manager at HS2 you will be accountable for the delivery of small change projects, individual work packages or releases, to support successful delivery of IT projects of varying size, complexity and elements of risk. This role is responsible for ensuring dependencies are captured, stakeholders and sponsors are communicated to and overall the project delivers the expected benefits to Hs2.

About the role:

1. To be accountable for delivering a component part of a small project to time, budget, and scope in line with sponsor's and business' requirements ensuring that any changes to agreed scope, time and budget are managed.
2. To be responsible for reporting delivery progress (including progress reports and papers) to IT Project Managers and/or IT Programme Delivery Managers for inclusion in the IT Steering Group and other similar boards and meetings as required.
3. To be accountable for all distinct phases of allocated projects, from ideation, discovery, initiation, alpha, beta through to go-live.
4. To be responsible for keeping track of delivery progress utilising most appropriate tooling and provide status updates to relevant governance forums and stakeholders as required.
5. To be responsible for identifying, resolving and escalating risks, issues and concerns through to the IT Programme Delivery Manager.
6. To be accountable for communicating and keeping track of a project's progress, ensuring the delivery team has the right tools required to deliver value based on the user/project needs.
7. Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Agile and Lean practices. Ability to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use.
• Maintaining delivery momentum. Ability to facilitate the delivery flow of a team or project, managing delivery timescales. address internal and external risks and issues.
• Making a process work. Ability to identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. Ability to guide others through the implementation of a new process
• Planning. Ability to prioritise the most important or highest value tasks, using data to inform a rationale. Ability to manage complex internal and external dependencies.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of a range of project delivery methodologies (E.g. but not limited to, Agile, Waterfall).
• Knowledge of an IT project delivery lifecycle and its component parts.

Experience:

• Experience of working in an IT project or service delivery team.
• Experience of collaborating with relevant disciplines within IT to deliver customer requirements.
• Experience of supporting the production of Programme Management or Project progress reports, for the purpose of governance and audit requirements.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.