About the job

Job summary

Do you have experience of planning and managing significant complex technical change? If so, we would like to hear from you!

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

We are now looking for a Lead Delivery Manager to help us to achieve this.

You will join our award-winning Technology & Transformation Directorate which is the in-house IT division at the heart of the move to a digital, data-driven organisation with the ambition to provide our customers with cutting-edge digital services.

Check out the video below to find out more about working for HMLR's Technology & Transformation profession. 

Job description

As HMLR's Lead Delivery Manager, you will oversee the effective delivery of our portfolio of change by leading and developing a team of Delivery Managers and Associate Delivery Managers, providing expert support, guidance and create the right environment across multiple teams to continually deliver value utilising industry standard techniques.

Working across complex streams of work involving multiple delivery teams, you will ensure that robust and comprehensive planning across several teams takes place, resulting in a coherent delivery schedule that aligns to strategic goals and plans

You will...

• Oversee, coordinate, drive and be accountable for complex delivery across multiple teams.
• Provide leadership and direction and act as an escalation point to Associate Delivery Managers and Delivery Managers, who work at a team level, by sharing approaches, methods and skills.
• Contribute to the Delivery Practice and SLT in area of expertise to share knowledge and experiences with others, in line with continuous improvement agenda and help build the Delivery capability for the future.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and other teams to ensure continual healthy stakeholder relationships.
• Influence planning decisions and strategic direction of deliverables at project and programme level
• Drive delivery teams, setting the pace and ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments and focused on outcomes
• Take a continuous improvement approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping.
• Ensure clear overview of changes across multiple teams to identify potential issues/opportunities and execute and escalate the relevant actions.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will have a proven track record of effective delivery of IT change, using the appropriate delivery methodology. You will have knowledge and experience of delivery in an iterative and continuous delivery environment, as well as experience of balancing priorities, responding quickly to changing circumstances and positively reacting to change. 

You will have highly developed people skills, including empathy, coaching, mentoring, listening, motivating others, giving feedback and developing others. You can engage with stakeholders and constructively challenge to make processes more effective.

In addition, you will have experience of planning and managing significant complex technical change and complex planning across multiple delivery or specialist teams. Problem solving skills are essential. 

Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Please note occasional travel will be necessary to HM Land Registry business units, external supplier sites and other Government Departments.

For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £50,372, HM Land Registry contributes £13,600 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Please cut and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form when prompted and include your qualifications and career history.

The statement of suitability section (in no more than 500 words) must be used to provide details of how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• Knowledge and experience of delivery in an iterative and continuous delivery environment.
• Strong evidence of planning and managing significant complex technical change.

In the event of a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to assess against the following leading experience criteria:

• Knowledge and experience of delivery in an iterative and continuous delivery environment.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview which will include a presentation and will be conducted as a video interview week commencing 19 February 2024.

The blended interview will assess the behaviours and experience listed in the candidate pack, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to the strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strength questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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.