Agile Delivery Manager - Consultant

hackajob is collaborating with Opencast Software to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Location: Hybrid – Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, or London

Commitment: Permanent - Employee

Ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role involves collaborating with the product manager and team to plan the delivery of services and products that deliver our client's strategic outcomes. You'll work in multidisciplinary agile teams alongside people in design, development, and research. You’ll play a key role in determining the milestones to efficiently deliver for our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy within our clients’ governance structures. Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.

Requirements:

• This role involves weekly on-site working.
• Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester. As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.
• Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process. SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.

Essential experience:

• You need to comfortably deliver work against a fairly well-defined outcome, where you understand the context you're delivering in.
• Please note, you must be either eligible or have active SC Clearance for this role.
• In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:
• Organised a scrum team, facilitated ceremonies and workshops to reach delivery milestones
• Used a range of collaboration tools
• Knowledge of Agile, plus Scrum or Kanban; Waterfall experience is also beneficial.
• Experience in UK Government or experience with GDS/ UK Service Standard
• Worked in an ambiguous environment and methodically broken down complex problems
• Supported the team to tackle problems and make progress in challenging situations
• Created and iterated a team charter and ways of working
• Encouraged teams to refer their work back to the project's vision and commitments
• Identified risks and dependencies within and outside the influence of your team, and had strategies to work towards their mitigation
• Identified milestones and created plans towards delivery, and presented these to stakeholders

In addition to these Agile delivery skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to work effectively as a consultant. In your interview, please show how you:

• Have good presentation skills and confident verbal communication
• Build strong relationships and resolve conflicts
• Provide feedback and challenge appropriately
• Are proactive and can work autonomously

Desirable experience:

• Remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Calculating metrics and using the outcomes to effectively manage the team
• Knowledge of team coaching and other techniques to support team development
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management

If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and talk about it in the interview.

Salary range: £45,000 - £55,000

What we offer:

• A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus.
• You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations.
• We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview process:

• An Initial Chat with a member of our Talent Team
• Your CV will be reviewed by one of our Interviewers
• 1 hour with our technical and values interviewers
• We will share feedback following the interview; if successful, we will progress to an Offer
• Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.