Senior Security Agile Delivery Manager

Successful candidates can expect to be involved in a range of the following :

• Helping high performance teams to continuously improve, share information and set standards for other teams.
• Helping develop and utilise meaningful metrics in order to drive teams towards their goals and understand areas for improvement.
• Creating a safe and supporting environment for all teams, encouraging them to experiment and making failure a safe part of learning.
• Leading by example, acting as a servant-leader demonstrate the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.
• Owning and builds relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, senior stakeholders, management and third party sub-contractors utilising effective and appropriate governance mechanisms. Managing complex team dynamics between external and internal stakeholder groups to ensure the team is aligned to and understands the same objectives.
• Working with technology and business teams to ensure that new products & services are delivered effectively to realise measurable benefits.
• Supporting the Product Owners to define and build the digital delivery roadmap and translate into an achievable backlog.
• Design, facilitate and lead workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, driving out outcomes and establishing the pace of delivery.
• Managing risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) and help resolve escalations
• Drives the pace of delivery responsible for owning key blockers till they are resolved and guiding other members of the delivery community to help them deliver effectively.
• Setting standards and ensures business and delivery teams are working to a common, shared objective and vision to deliver specific outcomes.
• Taking responsibility for their own learning and development, continuously improves knowledge of agile principles, methods and tool to further develop knowledge and skills, coaching and mentoring other members of your team
• Continuously improve the agile methods and tools used by your team
• Communicating with impact across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, tailoring messages to ensure that it is right for the audience.
• Supporting capacity management of the CRC Software Engineers to help prioritise deployment to address service needs.

Person specification

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate their suitability for the role by evidencing the essential criteria below in their personal statement :

Essential Criteria

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process :

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process :

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 57,946, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 16,786 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes :

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.

Stage 1 : Application

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV (no longer than 2 pages) & Personal Statement of suitability (1,000 words). All applications will be assessed and sifted based on the essential criteria in the Person Specification section of the advert, using the information you provide in your completed application form.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

The sift panel will use the information relating to your employment history (your CV) and your personal statement of suitability, to assess your experience, skills and knowledge. When giving details of your employment history, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.

Stage 2 Sift and Interview Information

Sifting for this role will be concluded as soon as the advert closes.

The final stage of the process will be an interview where you will be assessed against the behaviours and experience outlined in the advert. For the Behaviour based questions it may help to use one or more examples of a piece of work you have completed or a situation you have been in, and use the WHO or STAR model to explain : What was the task / work / situation, how did you approach it and what were the outcomes / what did you achieve

Candidates will be required to give a short presentation at interview, details of which will be provided prior to you attending. Technical skills will also be assessed at Interview.

Only candidates that have been successful at the sift stage will be invited to attend.

Your interview will either be conducted face to face or by video. You will be notified of the location if you are selected for interview.

Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed.

A Note on Anonymisation

Important Information :

Please include all other information that you would customarily provide when presenting a CV, as the sift panel use this information to assess your application.

DWP operates an anonymised recruitment process. When entering information relating to your employment history you will be asked to remove any personal details that could be used to identify you. This relates to name and contact details which might usually appear on your CV / Cover letter. Failure to do so will result in your application being withdrawn.

For this role, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.

NSV

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

If you are placed on a reserve list but we cannot immediately offer you a post, please note :

Disability Confident Scheme

If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.

Reasonable Adjustments

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the Government Recruitment Service via DWPRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Integrity, plagiarism, Civil Service Principles and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles.

Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words.

Examples of plagiarism can include :

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Disclosure and Barring Service and Internal Fraud Database Checks

To process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department, a criminal record check will be carried out.

Important

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. If you are a current employee and are successful you must be able to be released from your current post within four weeks.

Those on protected TUPE / COSoP terms and conditions applying on promotion or voluntary permanent level move will adopt DWPs Terms and Conditions and this may have a different impact on pay and allowances. Please review this prior to acceptance of a role.

Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing. Accepting a post will be taken to mean acceptance of revised terms & conditions.

Civil Servants applying on promotion will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or within 10% of existing salary.

Any move to DWP from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may, however, be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at the Childcare Choices Website.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups :

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DWP by email : HR.BUSINESSASSURANCE@DWP.GOV.UK.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission. Click here to visit the Civil Service Commission.

Attachments Candidate Pack Agile Delivery Manager (scrum) Opens in new window (odp, 7105kB) DWP Terms and Conditions January 2024 Opens in new window (docx, 17kB) Success-Profiles-Candidate-Overview-Accessble-Version Opens in new window (docx, 67kB)