Senior Delivery Manager - AI

1 week ago Be among the first 25 applicants Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Direct message the job poster from Government Digital Service Recruitment Business Partner (DDaT) – Digital, Data, and Technology at Cabinet office – Government Digital Services Location – Bristol, London, Manchester Job summary The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government — we are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government. Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by: joining up public sector services harnessing the power of AI for the public good strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure elevating leadership and investing in talent funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation committing to transparency and driving accountability We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government. We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol. The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale. Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You\’ll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need This role is with our Products & Services AI team. This team is responsible for building and developing GOV.UK Chat. After a successful private beta of GOV.UK Chat in November, the team are responding to findings and iterating the product ready for the next phase of development. As a senior delivery manager, you will be accountable for effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services. You will be expected to have strong communication skills and engage with senior stakeholders both internally and across government. You’ll be core to making decisions that build a high performing team, adept at breaking down barriers for your team and both planning at a higher level and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed. It is important you can facilitate an inclusive team environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed from all colleagues. As a Senior Delivery Manager, you\’ll: lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they deliver products and services that actually meet users’ needs co-create and co-own plans and progress using recognised lean/agile practices, and communicate status to more senior people and users appropriately provide useful and accurate delivery metrics to facilitate continual improvement, efficiency and effectiveness of teams delivery to the agreed goals, actively tackling impediments, risks and blockers, and communicating and escalating where necessary work with senior leaders and stakeholders in GDS to ensure all needs are understood and to influence strategic direction manage stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and effective communication, taking into account organisational context and different needs and priorities, dealing constructively with conflicting views work in partnership with product and technical leads on high profile work in ambiguous, complex and/or uncertain domains promote continual improvement, good communication and collaboration across the organisation using the principles of agile at scale Person specification It\’s essential that you will have a proven track record of: using agile practices to ensure the iterative and timely delivery of products and services that serve real user needs facilitating effective workshops which give a voice to all participants and provide concrete outputs that enable delivery leading successful high functioning multidisciplinary delivery teams which are aligned to the organisation’s strategic priorities and the needs of stakeholders actively tackling impediments, risks and blockers, and communicating and escalating where necessary Sponsorship DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Information Technology, Project Management, and Consulting Industries Government Relations Services, Government Administration, and Information Services Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Government Digital Service by 2x Get notified about new Project Manager jobs in London Area, United Kingdom . 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