11 Oct
NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Manchester
Job description
Job summary
Are you a passionate Senior Agile Delivery Manager with experience of delivering organisational transformation?
Are you user focused, collaborative and radical in how you approach delivery?Can you lead cross organisational teams to deliver user centred services and solutions?
If so we would love to hear from you!
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is going through an exciting period of change and rapid growth and there could not be a better time to join us and as a Senior Agile Delivery Manager (known in NICE as a Senior Service Delivery Manager) where you will play a pivotal role in supporting NICE achieve its ambitions to be an organisation as brilliant as the people in it,
underpinned by digital services built collaboratively with trusted data.
This role is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2026 and qualifies for an annual recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 8A base salary of between £2500 and £5000.
Interviews will be held on the 23rd of September with successful candidates notified by the 17th September.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with Business Service Owners and Digital Leads you will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team from across NICE to create a number of digital enabled services to standardise and improve the end-to-end guidance production process as part of NICE's Strategic improvement to Timeliness of guidance development programme.
To do this you will need to;
o Create a high performing, self-organising team with a culture of learning and transparencyo Coach the team in agile best practices,
encouraging them to identify area's to improveo Manage the day-to-day delivery to support both business process and technical outcomeso Support the transition of services into business as usual along with future iterations of development through continuous improvement cycles
The post holder must be passionate about agile processes and keen to be an advocate for them throughout NICE, seeking opportunities to influence how they can be used to support delivery of this key programme of work.
About us
The Senior Agile Delivery Manager role sits within the Strategy and Governance function of the Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate which takes a lead role in portfolio negotiation with the business against their priorities and transformation agenda along with taking accountability for the delivery of the prioritised pipeline of investments.
You will be joining an established team of four other Senior Agile Delivery Manager, working closely with two of them to deliver the Timeliness programme which is a strategic cross institute initiative.
We offer a range of benefits including :
NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance including work from home, compressed hours and flexi start / finish times.
Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.
Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays
Access to modern offices with showers, bike storage facilities and refreshments such as tea and coffee.
Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Eco-NICE, Change Agent Network.
Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application.
However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
Certified Agile qualification or good knowledge and experience of agile project / implementation practices, tools & techniques
Experience
Essential
Proven and demonstrated experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products that meet users' needs and intended outcomes
Experience
Essential
Demonstrated experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
Skills
Essential
Extensive knowledge of digital industry standards and processes for successfully planning and managing the delivery of digitally enabled systems and services
Experience
Essential
Extensive client-facing / stakeholder management experience including clients, stakeholders and contractors
Other
Essential
- Liaising with senior stakeholders to define value and a user-driven roadmap for the portfolio of services and working with the delivery team to translate this into actionable user stories and sprint plans
▶️ Senior Agile Delivery Manager (Senior Service Delivery Manager)
🖊️ NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
📍 Manchester