Delivery Manager
Location: GB, LND, Shoreditch
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Project Management
Company profile: Work at dxwdxw works exclusively with the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies. Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.For the right people we offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and SodaStream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with. We’ve got a nice office near the Hallowed Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away. We’ve all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re brought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.We think that the best projects need the best people, and good people are hard to come by. If you’re interested in any of these roles, we’d love to hear from you. There’s no closing date for applications: posts stay open for as long as it takes us to find the right person. If you think that might be you, get in touch quickly!
Description: We’re looking for two delivery managers to join our team.We work exclusively with clients in the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies. Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.We offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and sodastream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with. We've got a nice office near Old Street Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away. We've all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re bought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.We think that the best projects need the best people, and good people are hard to come by. If you’re interested in this role, we’d love to hear from you. Main dutiesYou will be responsible for managing the delivery of projects to our clients.You will use your leadership, organisation, problem-solving, motivational skills and experience to ensure that projects are delivered on time, and that they meet or exceed our clients’ expectations.You will have been a delivery manager or scrum master (or other equivalent) in a previous role. You will have several years experience managing technical projects using agile methodologies. You will be keen to shape the structure of your role within the organisation, and evolve and refine process where appropriate. Additionally, you will work with individual teams to help them function more effectively.You will:Work with clients to understand their business and user needs, advising them on their approach and suggesting alternative ideas and improvementsWork with the dxw team to deliver products and projects using agile and user-centred methodologies throughoutWork closely with clients, giving them clear information about what has been delivered, what we’re working on and what we need from them in order to complete further workEnsure that the work we deliver meets our standards and that it is likely to meet or exceed the client’s expectationsLearn from our successes and failures over time, contributing to and documenting process improvements when necessary; helping the whole team to innovate, learn and improveHelp clients not familiar with agile development to become acquainted with agile principles, thereby aiding the successful delivery of projects and contributing to a wider culture change towards agile practice in governmentManage tight resource constraints and conflicting priorities, ensuring that appropriate work is prioritisedParticipate actively in the Delivery Manager community, sharing skills and knowledge and learning from others
Requirements: The following skills are required:Ability to understand and manage complex, technical projectsExperience applying agile methodologiesAbility to discuss and describe web technologies in simple, lay termsAble to constructively and positively challenge other people’s ideas and approachesAble to notice early signs of failure and respond decisively and proportionatelyDecisive; able to choose between competing options quickly and pragmatically, balancing risk and the need to actEffective and positive manager; able to balance the need for oversight and supervision with the team’s need to work independently and be trustedExcellent written and spoken English; good communicator Personal qualitiesArticulate and personableConfident and assertiveCompleter/finisher personalityGains genuine satisfaction from being useful and helping people to understand new conceptsGood attention to detail; well organised and able to manage time independentlyOptimistic Problem-solver
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