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Key responsibilities
Lead and manage the delivery management community, providing direction, guidance, and support.
Facilitate internal mobility, shape career paths, and recruit delivery management talent to build capability and excellence for an agile lean practice.
Create high performing teams with an agile mindset. Building teams that consistently and iteratively deliver quality services.
You will develop the agile ways of working in collaboration with your team and other heads of roles to promote effective cross-functional agile delivery.
You set the direction for your teams and apply the appropriate governance to manage quality, risk and compliance.
Person specification
You are excited about contributing to the Homes England mission.
You have successfully led high-performing agile multi-disciplinary teams.
You have good people management skills to lead and manage a large diverse delivery management team.
You have a track record of hiring and retaining top delivery management talent and nurturing a delivery management community that can repeatedly and successfully embed agile best practices in our delivery teams through the standards and process guardrails that you are responsible for.
You have deep knowledge of a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques, with an ability to coach within and outside of your team.
You have experience working in environments using DevOps practices and deploying to a public cloud.
You are good at building strong relationships across the organisation to be able to influence strategy and execution and advocate for agile delivery practices.
You can proactively solve issues, unblock problems, drive teams, and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments with a focus on outcomes.
You can identify and challenge organisational processes of unnecessarily high complexity and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes.
You keep abreast of emerging trends and best practices and can embed relevant trends and practices into the organisation.
Nice to have:
You have working knowledge of the The Technology Code of Practice – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday – Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly – At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing – We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development – At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
