IT Agile Coach | Project Manager | Contract | London

Contract Role: IT Agile Coach / Project Manager
Contract Location: London 4-5 days onsite each week
Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35)
Contract duration: End of 2026

Job Description:

The IT Agile Coach / Project Manager is a senior delivery professional responsible for improving organisational agility and supporting strategic delivery. The role is approximately 70% Agile coaching and 30% project management focused on helping leaders Product Owners and delivery teams adopt Lean-Agile practices that improve collaboration value delivery and continuous improvement.

Within Information & Digital Engineering (IDE) the role builds Agile capability while providing project management support to deliver outcomes with appropriate governance risk management and stakeholder engagement.

Key Accountabilities

• Agile Coaching and Capability Building
  
• Coach leaders Product Owners Scrum Masters and teams in Lean-Agile practices.
  
• Assess ways of working and identify improvement opportunities.
  
• Build capability through mentoring facilitation training and communities of practice.
  
• Promote servant leadership transparency accountability and continuous improvement.
  
• Support leaders in enabling Agile ways of working.
  

• Facilitate planning retrospectives dependency workshops and multi-team events.
  
• Improve prioritisation backlog quality and outcome-focused delivery.
  
• Identify and address impediments risks and dependencies.
  
• Use delivery metrics to support continuous improvement.
  
• Partner with product engineering architecture and business stakeholders to align delivery with business goals.
  

Project Delivery and Governance

• Lead projects and delivery initiatives through the appropriate lifecycle.
  
• Manage scope schedule budget risks quality and benefits.
  
• Establish effective governance and reporting.
  
• Ensure compliance with delivery and assurance standards.
  
• Communicate progress risks decisions and actions clearly.
  

Leadership and Community Contribution

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
  
• Influence and challenge constructively using evidence and judgement.
  
• Support high-performing teams through coaching and collaboration.
  
• Contribute to Agile and Delivery Management communities of practice.
  
• Mentor Agile practitioners and project managers.
  

Expected Outcomes

• Successful delivery of agreed project objectives effective governance and financial control transparent reporting proactive risk management successful business transition and adoption and a collaborative high-performing delivery team. Project Scoping & Budgeting
  
• Project Risk Assessment & Management Project Planning & Tracking