DDaT Delivery Manager (18 Months FTC)
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As a DDaT Delivery Manager within Barnets Strategy & Innovation directorate you will sit at the centre of a growing digital function focused on improving resident and customer outcomes. You will play a key role in delivering a broad range of digital data and technology (DDaT) projects that support the councils financial sustainability and wider strategic ambitions. This is a fastpaced and highly collaborative role working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across the organisation to ensure projects progress smoothly from inception to delivery.
You will take responsibility for driving delivery across multiple projectstracking milestones clearing blockers coordinating teams and ensuring benefits are realised. You will build strong working relationships with services across Barnet to identify process improvements opportunities and efficiencies. Operating as a central figure within Barnets digital delivery ecosystem you will influence ways of working strengthen delivery practices and help shape the future of the councils DDaT function.
Alongside delivery youll provide digital consultancy and business partneringtriaging and prioritising requests offering guidance sharing best practice and helping services translate organisational goals into practical outcomesfocused delivery. You will support the council in embedding a digitalfirst mindset championing agile approaches quality service design accessibility inclusion and a testlearniterate culture.
This newly created role provides significant scope to shape ways of working influence major programmes and contribute directly to the success of Barnets digital strategy and multimillionpound savings ambitions.
This is a newly created role with significant scope to shape how Barnet adopts new technology and offers the opportunity to influence strategy set standards and deliver meaningful impact for residents. It is a hybrid role you will be expected to be in our Colindale offices an average of once a week. We also come into the office as required to meet service stakeholders work together on collaboration discovery and user testing sessions and department days.
You are an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong track record in a DDaT environment comfortable leading a variety of delivery lifecyclesfrom traditional waterfall approaches to agile iterative delivery. You have proven experience guiding projects through initiation requirements design testing deployment and service transition and you are confident managing risks dependencies and change across complex technical portfolios.
You bring strong leadership skills able to work effectively in multidisciplinary and matrix environments and draw on the collective capability of technical specialists service teams and partners. You are outcomesdriven and userfocused able to translate Barnets strategic goals into clear deliverables and practical plans for successful implementation. Your judgement is informed by evidence insight and experience enabling you to make wellreasoned decisions about project direction priority and scope.
You are a confident communicator who can adapt your style to different audiences effectively influence stakeholders and champion best practice. You understand digital principles accessibility quality service design and the importance of inclusive usercentred services. You are comfortable promoting digital ways of working setting high standards and modelling a growth mindsetseeking continuous improvement supporting colleagues and learning from experience.
Youll be part of a capable team with a growing ability to influence the organisation using new technology and the opportunity to develop your own career whilst delivering innovative solutions.
- 31 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
- Work-life balance options may include hybrid working flexitime job share home working part-time
- A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers supermarkets energy suppliers and more
- Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work eye care vouchers travel and gym membership
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee well- being training programs including confidential employee assistance
Barnet Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures this may include AI Detection Screening Biometric ID/Right to Work Checks Qualification and Registration Checks Up to 6 years of Employment Data and Insights to Accelerate Screening (Konfir) Up to 5 years of Employment History References DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Checks Credit Checks and Social Media Sanctions and Occupational Health Screening.
Responsibilities
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Kanban
- Project / Program Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Project Leadership
- Application Development
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Microsoft Project
- SDLC
- Project Implementation
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