2x SFIA 6 Delivery Manager

Role Overview

Our Government client are looking for 2x experienced Senior Delivery Managers (SFIA Level 6) to support delivery across the ESRM Governance, Risk and Assurance Programme.

Both resources will operate at SFIA Level 6, providing leadership, accountability and delivery oversight across complex organisational change initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery management activities across assigned programme and work package areas.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, roadmaps and delivery schedules.
• Coordinate activities across multiple projects, teams and stakeholders.
• Manage programme risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, actions and decisions (RAID).
• Track critical paths, milestones and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate governance forums, programme boards and steering committees.
• Produce executive-level reporting and decision-support materials.
• Drive business readiness, transition planning and change adoption activities.
• Ensure delivery plans align with programme objectives, priorities and governance requirements.
• Support continuous improvement of delivery approaches, governance and operating practices.
• Influence and challenge stakeholders constructively to support effective delivery outcomes.
• Maintain alignment between programme objectives, resources, dependencies and delivery timelines.

Essential Skills -

• Demonstrable experience delivering complex transformation programmes comprising multiple projects, workstreams and stakeholders.
• Proven experience leading complex change initiatives within Governance, Risk and Assurance (GRA), security, assurance, government or similarly complex environments.
• Strong programme management, PMO, governance and planning capability, including development and management of integrated delivery plans.
• Experience applying Agile, incremental and hybrid delivery methodologies, including delivery planning, prioritisation and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience managing programme risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, actions, decisions, critical paths and delivery milestones.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated programme plans, roadmaps, resource plans and delivery schedules.
• Experience producing high-quality materials for Steering Committees, Programme Boards and executive leadership forums.
• Strong executive reporting, governance and decision-support capability.
• Experience engaging, influencing and challenging senior stakeholders, sponsors and governance boards.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing delivery across organisational boundaries.
• Experience leading business change, transition planning, business readiness and adoption activities.
• Strong analytical, organisational, prioritisation and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable accountability for delivery outcomes and successful implementation of change.
• Resilient, adaptable and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities effectively

Skill Stack -

Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), programme and project management tooling, RAID and dependency management tools, reporting dashboards, governance and document management systems used within DWP