Agile Delivery Manager
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Job Description
Salary: 72100
Closing date: Wednesday 23 April 2025
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract until end of July 2026
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science leading policy and advocacy campaigns and building partnerships.
We plan to spend 16bn over the next ten years funding new discoveries in life health and wellbeing and taking on three global health challenges: mental health infectious disease and climate and health.
These challenges need the bold science we support but they wont be solved by science alone.
We are looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team on a fixed term basis.
Where in Wellcome will I be working
You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager. In this role you will matrix work with teams in the Digital & Technology department. We currently have several projects and product/workstream teams whose work consists of publicfacing websites Tableau dashboards infrastructure research content search engines and a bespoke CRM system for all our grants. We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects.
What will I be doing
You will work with one of our technical project product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value to our users incrementally shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle. You will work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them. You will also be working with the rest of the delivery team and where appropriate championing our ways of working across the organisation.
As a Delivery Manager you will:
Have a flexible approach to the endtoend delivery of projects expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards
Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance product team ways of working
Foster a highperforming team environment ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments
Identify and mitigate risks proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery
Be the point of communication for progress and provide uptodate and realistic delivery estimates
Support with informed goal setting having a familiarity of sprint goals and OKR setting techniques
Have a datainformed approach to decisionmaking especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs
Is this job for me
The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in Wellcomes mission and strategic priorities as well as someone who:
Has minimum 2 years experience working as a delivery manager scrum master or agile project manager
Is experienced working collaboratively with subject matter experts product managers designers user researchers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully
Is experienced evalutating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
Has an analytical and creative approach to problemsolving
Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs
Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties
Is committed to EDI ensuring an inclusive approach is taken into product and workstream delivery
To apply for this role please submit an update CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Interview dates W/C 12 May and 26 May 2nd Interview)
You can view the full job description on our website
You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website
Our Hybrid Way of Working
We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment in which people can perform at their best.
At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair andinclusiveenvironment where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includesmaking adjustmentsfor people who have a disability or longterm visit our websitefor more information on adjustments and accessibility or contact us at.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
