Senior Delivery Manager (i.AI) - Cabinet Office - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Senior Delivery Manager (i.AI)
Cabinet Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 3rd November 2024
Details
Reference number
373975
Salary
£55,403 - £70,219
National £55,403 - £61,939. London £61,005 - £70,219 - Offers above the band minimum are subject to our assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Salaries over the band minimum will be paid as a non-pensionable allowance.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Fixed term
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment
Role will be offered on either a permanent basis or as a 22-month loan/FTA/secondment based on the successful candidate’s preference.
Business area
Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI)
Type of role
Digital
Project Delivery
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time
Number of jobs available
2
Contents
Location
Bristol, London, Manchester
About the job
Job summary
About the team
Government must seize the opportunity of AI to drive outcomes in the public interest. This is of critical importance now. Government needs innovation and must not sleep on the opportunity presented by AI to drive better services for taxpayers and citizens.
In November 2023, the creation of the incubator for AI (i.AI) was announced, and following early successes, the team was expanded in March 2024. Our mission is to harness the opportunity of AI to improve lives, drive growth, and deliver better public services. This is an AI product team that focuses on delivery of technical solutions to public service challenges, responding to ministerial steers about priorities and driving impact out into departments from the centre.
i.AI delivers high impact products and is mission-led, delivering value and innovation within government. We are able to move fast and build things, and are set up specifically to pivot quickly towards priority use cases, and re-use technologies for future impact.
You can see more about our work on ai.gov.uk and on LinkedIn. We work in the open and our code can be found here: https://github.com/i-dot-ai
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) will be moving to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to form part of the new digital centre of government. If offered the position, you will be onboarded to, and initially employed by, the Cabinet Office, but will move with us to DSIT under the machinery of government change. This is expected to happen in April 2025, but this date is subject to change. If shortlisted, the hiring panel will be happy to answer any questions you might have. You're also welcome to reach out to us at i-dot-ai-recruitment@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Our team is based across Bristol, Manchester and London, and we work in a hybrid manner as default. A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance. We will consider part-time and flexible working arrangements - we encourage you to discuss your needs with the hiring manager if you are offered the role.
Job description
About the role
The Senior Delivery Manager will work closely with the Head of Delivery to ensure the team has everything they need to deliver efficiently. They will be working with stakeholders to understand needs and plan how these can be delivered. We are looking for someone who will build good working relationships to get the work done.
Our project teams vary from a team of 2 or 3 scoping an idea to a full multidisciplinary team. As a Senior Delivery Manager you will adapt your work to meet the needs of the team. For example in scoping you will be very involved in understanding the feasibility and value of doing a new piece of work. As the project progresses you will adapt to unblocking problems for the team and empowering them to deliver.
Being flexible and passionate about getting things done are essential, this will be a varied role and we need someone who’s keen to adapt to what’s needed.
Information session
To give you an idea of working in i.AI and to answer any questions you might have, we encourage you to attend our information session on Tuesday 29th October at 10:00. Please email us at i-dot-ai-recruitment@cabinetoffice.gov.uk and we'll send you a link to join.
Role Responsibilities
- Designing appropriate agile practices for teams in the incubator based on their needs and the work
- Supporting the team by running planning sessions, retrospectives and daily stand-ups
- Work to proactively remove blockers to delivery, reconciling differences within the team and ensuring that stakeholder expectations are aligned
- Coaching and mentoring others in approaches to agile delivery
- Managing dependencies between projects and escalating issues you or the team identify
- Managing risks, commercials and budgets to ensure resources are used efficiently
- Working with the team to ensure products are scoped appropriately to deliver a MVP that meets stakeholder’s and user’s needs while maintaining focus on prototyping
- Identifying, sourcing and managing the tools needed for the team
- Line managing people to enable to deliver their best work
- Supporting with the creation of business cases as required for the team’s work
- Proactively finding opportunities to make the team more inclusive and supporting the team’s well being
- Managing the commercials of the product or service, including procuring services
- Embedding user-centred ways of working in the team and across the incubator
- Support the effective performance of the team by promoting diversity, inclusion, regular, honest and constructive feedback, and supporting continuous improvement
Person specification
Essential skills:
- Has a strong experience of coaching and leading teams in agile practices. Can choose the right method for the team and work.
- Identifies problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them, engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick.
- Can demonstrate successfully taking a product through the different stages of the product life-cycle, and can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
- Can identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
- Is an expert at identifying and improving organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated.
- Has a keen focus on actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
- Leads a continual planning process in a very complex environment and identifies dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.
Strong candidates come from many different backgrounds, and we encourage a broad range of applications to ensure we have a well-balanced team. Studies show that talented people, especially those from groups underrepresented in their field, are more likely to doubt themselves and feel like an "imposter". Unique perspectives enrich teams, so we urge you to have confidence in your potential contributions. If aspects of this role resonate with you, please apply. We look forward to your application.
Additional information:
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Technical assessment at interview 1
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £55,403, Cabinet Office contributes £16,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
