Senior Delivery Manager

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Delivery Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Senior Delivery Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

This opportunity is in an area of Technology called Data Provisioning.  As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for enabling teams within Data Provisioning to make Met Office data available through secure online services.

Your key duties

• Coach, facilitate and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
• Build and maintain software delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well.
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.

As our Senior Delivery Manager, your total reward package will be up to £77,318 annually, which includes:

• £52,799 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £3,800 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2024 until September 2025 in your monthly pay
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Agile and Lean practices:
   - You can coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices.  
   - Act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team.  
   - Create or tailor new ways of working and consistently innovate.
2. Maintaining delivery momentum:  
   - Optimise the delivery flow of teams.  
   - Actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside of the team. 
   - Identify and implement innovative ways to unblock issues.
   
3. Planning:
   - You can lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment.  
   - Plan beyond product delivery.  
   - Identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery. 
   - Coach other teams as the central point of expertise.
   
4. Team dynamics and collaboration
   - Identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. 
   - Identify issues through Agile 'health checks' with the team, and help stimulate the right responses. 
   - Engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick. 
   - Accelerate the team development cycle.

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 07/01/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 20/01/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.