Associate Delivery Manager - GDS - SEO

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

About the job

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. 

The Cyber and Domains Protection Team provide high quality relevant and actionable vulnerability, incident, threat and dependency information for the protection and resilience of the UK’s Public Sector’s digital services. We protect public sector domain name spaces such as “.gov.uk”, and ensure they remain stable, trusted, well managed and resistant to compromise. The team also helps protect the infrastructure tools and services associated with these domains.

Job description

As an Associate Delivery Manager you’ll:

Build multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they deliver timely 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 
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 across Government on high profile work in ambiguous, complex and/or uncertain domains
Utilise your skills and expertise on other projects or other aspects of this project during your engagement should our organisation’s priorities change
Facilitate an inclusive team environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed from all colleagues

Person specification

We’re interested in people who have:

experience of successfully delivering services that are deployed across a large number of organisations or business units
experience successfully supporting several services or projects simultaneously through different phases of its life cycle
an understanding of cyber security risk and government cyber security best practices
experience managing projects using agile and lean practices according to the Service Manual
experience of communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders whilst working in government, public sector or charity sector organisations
excellent planning and organisational skills