Agile Delivery Manager

Grade B: £42,044 (National) or £47,900 (London – for London office based or homebased workers within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £600 per annum for those working from home. For part time roles – please note this will be pro rata.

Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week. Talk to us about compressed hours or flexible working.

Contract Type: Secondment until 31 March 2028 to support project work for this period only. Internal applicants must obtain written confirmation from their line manager, granting permission to be released from their current role, before applying for this opportunity.

Location: Homebased

Closing Date: Thursday 06 August 2026 at 11.59pm

Make a difference Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Digital that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it!

As an Agile Delivery Manager, you’ll help deliver digital services that support CQC’s work to improve the quality of health and social care for people across England.

Picture this Imagine helping teams turn complex challenges into practical digital solutions that make a real difference to how CQC works. You’ll work with a mix of colleagues and suppliers, supporting teams to deliver services that meet user needs while creating an environment where people can do their best work.

As an Agile Delivery Manager in the Digital Directorate, you might get the chance to lead the delivery of a major digital product as part of the Rebuilding our Regulatory Services Programme, helping teams achieve key milestones and outcomes. You might also support the introduction of new agile ways of working across teams, helping colleagues adopt effective tools and approaches that improve delivery and collaboration.

The role You’ll play an important part in delivering our mission. In this role, you’ll:

• Lead agile teams: Support multidisciplinary teams to plan, organise and deliver digital products and services that meet user needs.
• Remove barriers to delivery: Identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies, helping teams overcome obstacles and stay focused on agreed goals.
• Work with stakeholders: Build strong working relationships across CQC and with suppliers, keeping people informed, managing expectations and supporting successful delivery.

Show us We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:

• Experience leading the delivery of digital products or services within agile environments, with clear examples of achieving successful outcomes.
• Experience coaching or supporting multidisciplinary teams to use agile or lean approaches, including helping teams improve how they plan and deliver work.
• Experience managing stakeholders across technical and non-technical areas, including handling risks, resolving delivery challenges and balancing competing priorities.

Compliance Note for internal candidates: This is a secondment/fixed term opportunity. Please read the recruitment and selection policy section on secondments. You must discuss your application with your line manager before applying. To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work you won’t be eligible for the role. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Next steps If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.

You can read the full details of the role in the Job Description. If you’d like to have an informal chat about the role you can contact – Michelle Bartlett, Deputy Director - Technology Change; michelle.bartlett@cqc.org.uk. For general enquiries, please email recruitment@cqc.org.uk.

The Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!

Please see our benefits page for the full list.

Equity for all We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds). If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.

We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process, we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit our accessibility page for more on this. If you’d like to chat, please contact recruitment@cqc.org.uk. Please note, if you have previously informed us of adjustments you need for interview or within your role these are not carried over and must be discussed for each individual application you make.

We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See our ED&I page for more about this.

We welcome applications from everyone, and colleagues can find support and community among our many employee networks. This includes people of any: Age, Sex, Gender identity or expression, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Ethnicity, Disability.

Values and vision We are guided by our core values, which shape our work and our culture.

• Excellence: being a high-performing organisation.
• Caring: treating everyone with dignity and respect.
• Integrity: doing the right thing.
• Teamwork: learning from each other to be the best we can.

We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.

A Note on AI AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:

• AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your application must reflect your real skills and experience.
• Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively.
• Do not copy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember we want to hear about your skills and experience.
• Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity and may lead to your application being withdrawn or termination of your employment.