Agile Delivery Manager

Ref Number

B01-04109

Professional Expertise

IT and Digital

Department

Vice-President (Operations) (B01)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

£51,474–£60,521

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

Yes

Closing Date

03-Jun-2024

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. Within ISD, this role will sit in the Portfolio and Product Delivery department. Our purpose is to manage the delivery of change, partnering with colleagues across UCL.  

The role will collaborate with the Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC). ARC is UCL’s department for digital research infrastructure and innovation: the software, supercomputers, data, and skills that underpin computational science and digital scholarship across the university. 

This unique role will provide servant leadership and flexible, tailored agile coaching to ARC’s various product and academic led research teams, and will support group leaders and project portfolio managers. As Technical Agile Delivery Manager you will take a hands-on and flexible approach to supporting, coaching and enabling one or more cross functional teams to develop and deliver their product or platform roadmap. You will take a flexible approach to leading and facilitating collaborative agile ceremonies, striving to anticipate and mitigate risks, manage dependencies and remove impediments, while ensuring quality is built in.      Additionally, you'll will work closely with the Product Owners and key stakeholders in ARC and ISD and more widely across the university, proactively communicating and collaborating with them.  Job Ref: B01-03083 Closing Date: 03-06-2023– 23:59 (UK time)

As Technical Agile Delivery Manager, you have experience in delivering technical agile projects and products in a flexible way, tailed to the individuals in the team and the work required and have excellent facilitation, collaboration and communication skills.   With your interpersonal skills, you have the ability to be flexible and tailor your approach to the people you are working with, to persuade and influence stakeholders and, as a naturally curious individual, you're always looking to continuously improve.  Additionally, you're comfortable using JIRA, github and other collaboration tools and are confident with the budgeting and financial management side of delivery too. Experience in an academic research environment is a bonus.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

Immigration loan

Relocation scheme for certain posts

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Employee ant our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclus assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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