Senior Delivery Manager

As a Senior Agile Delivery Manager (DM) in DBT, you will be delivering products, services and workstreams of varying sizes, maturity, and at different stages of the lifecycle (from discoveries through to live).
Delivery Managers in DBT work within a community of practice, supporting each other to improve agile practices and deliver in line with priorities of trade, investment, and export promotion and supporting the UK’s agenda for a Global Britain.
We work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver transformation which supports export and investment strategies. We use digital tools to allow UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering trade agreements, helping to facilitate UK exports as well as working on digital projects to support inward UK investment from abroad., You will be:
+ Helping to build the right environment for the team to deliver, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes
+ Improving processes and removing obstacles within the team and outside of it, iterating the existing approaches and facilitating new ways of doing things
+ Ensuring the team has the right set of skills and providing direction on how that should change as the product is developed
+ Managing dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery
+ Using your understanding of agile practices to be able to adapt them to suit the team you are working with and guide continual improvement
+ Line managing, mentoring and coaching other members of the professional community, your team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT, As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. Inspire People will assess your application against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications, which will then be sifted by DBT. Successful candidates at this stage may be invited straight to interview or asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video screening interview (alternately provide written answers to questions). These applications will then be sifted by DBT hiring managers. If you are successful, you will be invited to interview.
DBT sift will be from week commencing 3rd June 2024
Interviews will be from week commencing 10th June 2024
Please note these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.
How we interview
At the interview stage for these roles, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant Technical Skills and Behaviours from the Success Profiles framework. These are role specific and in line with the DDaT Capability Framework. If you are invited to interview, you will receive the questions about Technical Skills in advance.
Technical Skills
+ Agile and Lean practices
+ Communicating between the technical and non-technical
+ Life cycle perspective
+ Maintaining delivery momentum
+ Making a process work
+ Planning
+ Team dynamics and collaboration
Behaviours
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Delivering at Pace
How we offer
Offers may be made in merit order based on location preferences. If you pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring you will be held on a 12-month reserve list in case a role becomes available. If you are judged a near miss at interview, you may be offered a post at the grade below the one you applied for.
We will be creating separate merit lists for the two types of Delivery roles, one for the LITE and one for both the Tech roles.
These roles require SC clearance. DBT’s requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.
Checks will also be made against:
+ departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
+ UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
+ your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
+ security services record
+ location details

It is essential that you have:
+ Experience of Agile and Lean practices in a cross functional team, with an emphasis on user-centred design
+ Experience of delivering a full product lifecycle
+ Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
+ The ability to support with governance/continuous improvement
+ The ability to balance business needs against cost/time to build
If you are applying for either of the technical delivery roles, it is also essential that you have:
+ Experience leading technical projects and/or programmes
It is desirable that you have:
+ Experience of financial management
+ Experience of commercial management

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

Alongside your salary of £52,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £14,040 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ Learning and development tailored to your role
+ An environment with flexible working options
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
+ A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%, These roles can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.
You can find out more about our office locations, how we calculate salaries, our diversity statement and reasonable adjustments, the Recruitment Principles, the Civil Service code and our complaints procedure on our website.
Find out more about life at DBT, our benefits and meet the team by watching our video or reading our blog!
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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
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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.