About the job

Job summary

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. 

About the role  

As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will be supporting teams delivering products, services and workstreams of varying sizes, maturity, and at different stages of the lifecycle (from discoveries through to live).  Delivery Managers in DBT work within a community of practice, supporting each other to improve agile and lean practices across the department and deliver in line with the department’s priorities of trade, investment, and export promotion and supporting the UK’s agenda for a Global Britain. Teams  We have vacancies in multiple areas. If any of the following teams are of special interest to you, please indicate this (and why it’s the case) in your application.  

Job description

Business Growth portfolio Vacancy:

As an Agile Delivery Manager (SEO) in the Export Transformation team, where the multidisciplinary team works to:

• Enable businesses that come to DBT to digitally self-serve using our great.gov.uk platform;
• Work on a task-based approach to surface relevant content at the right time to the right business on their journey of growth and exporting;
• Understand the various needs that businesses have coming to great.gov.uk and what ways are best to serve them;
• Capture and analyse data to understand user behaviour while on site and to turn these into insight and opportunities to improve DBT offering for businesses.  

 Content Live Services Vacancy:

The Content Design Live Services team is an enabling team, made up of content design professionals who:  

• maintain a service for delivering content in a fast-paced environment
• respond to and track daily requests from the business
• set standards, design processes and workflow to make sure the department’s content is timely, accurate and legally compliant

The role holder will have the opportunity to lead the team through change by expediting a systems-thinking approach, supporting user-centred design (UCD) operations. This is an opportunity to make a mark by influencing how DBT:  

• curates information
• measures content performance
• provides a robust and resilient user-led service across 3 DBT platforms
• contributes to content lifecycle management - including its maintenance and retirement.

This role would suit someone who likes to build consistent ways of working that are immediately adaptive to different priorities.

Data Services portfolio, Power BI migration Vacancy: 

We are looking for an Agile Delivery Manager (SEO) to lead the Data team responsible for migrating around 200 users to a different Power BI environment for analysis and reporting. The team will be concerned to deliver against the needs of

• Compatibility and integration with existing data sources and systems must be evaluated further to minimize disruption and maintain data integrity.
• Differences in licensing, permissions, and user access levels between the two Power BI environments need to be carefully reconciled to ensure seamless user experience and compliance.
• Governance policies and security measures should be aligned to safeguard sensitive information and maintain regulatory compliance.   
• Effective communication strategies should be employed to keep users informed throughout the transition process, addressing concerns, and fostering buy-in.  
• Post-migration evaluation and optimisation are essential to identify areas for improvement and ensure the new Power BI environment effectively supports the analytical needs. 

Main responsibilities

You will:

• Help build the right environment for the team to deliver in, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes.   
• Improve processes and remove obstacles within the team and outside of it, iterating the existing approaches and facilitating new ways of doing things.   
• Ensure the team has the right set of skills and provide direction on how that should change as the product is developed.   
• Manage dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery.   
• Have a great understanding of agile practices and be able to adapt them to suit the team you are working with and guide continual improvement.   
• Line manage, mentor and coach other members of the professional community, your team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT.   

Person specification

• Agile and Lean Practices- You can coach and guide teams in Agile and Lean practices. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and questioning the team.  
• Communication Skills- You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. You can manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales.  
• Maintaining Delivery Momentum- You can actively address the most complicated risks, issues, and dependencies even when ownership exists outside the team or is unclear.    
• Making the Process Work- You can identify and question organisational processes of increasing complexity. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You can guide teams through the implementation of a new process.  
• Planning- You can manage a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You can plan beyond product delivery. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery. You can coach other teams as the central point of expertise.

 It is desirable that you have: 

• Commercial Management- You can negotiate, get good value from, and take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. You can identify appropriate contractual frameworks and identify appropriate suppliers.  
• Financial Management- You can negotiate, influence, or set budgets in complex environments. You can write or input into business cases and can communicate business-value propositions.   
• Life-cycle perspective- You can apply experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when to stop. You can recognise appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet them.               
• Team Dynamics and Collaboration- You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team and help to stimulate the right responses. You can coach the team and individuals through development. 

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a two page CV and complete a personal statement which must be a maximum of 750 words. Your CV should be a maximum of two pages outlining how you meet the essential skills and experience listed above. You can use bullet points and subheadings if you prefer.  

Sift will be from week commencing Wednesday 24th July

Interviews will be from week commencing Monday 5th August 

Please note these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.

If there is a high volume of applications, we will sift looking at your personal statement only. You may then be progressed to full sift or straight to interview. 

How we interview 

At the interview stage for this role, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant Technical Skills and Behaviours from the Success Profiles framework. These are role specific and in line with the DDaT Capability Framework.

Technical Skills 

• DDAT standards outside of your discipline
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical
• Life cycle perspective
• Maintaining delivery momentum
• Planning

 Behaviours 

• Communicating and Influencing​ 
• Developing Self and Others​  

How we offer 

Offers will be made in merit order based on location preferences. If you pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring you will be held on a 12-month reserve list in case a role becomes available. If you are judged a near miss at interview, you may be offered a post at the grade below the one you applied for.

This role requires SC clearance. DBT’s requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn. Checks will also be made against: 

• departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records) 
• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records 
• your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency 
• security services record 
• location details 

 More about us 

This role can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. 

Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.You can find out more about our office locations, how we calculate salaries, our diversity statement and reasonable adjustments, the Recruitment Principles, the Civil Service code and our complaints procedure on our website. Find out more about life at DBT, our benefits and meet the team by watching our video or reading our blog! 

 

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:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.