Delivery Manager

Location:
- Canberra- Job Type:
- Contract- Posted:
- 19 minutes ago- Contact:
- Maria Lastierre- Discipline:
- General IT
- Reference:
- 255060Our Federal Government Client is looking for a **Delivery Manager** to own and drive operational excellence in the teams responsible for new digital product development.

This is a 12-month contract open to Australian citizens with active AGSVA Baseline security clearance. There are flexible working arrangements in place for this role, and a mix of office and WFH is the norm with this Client. Whilst onboarding and training is undertaken though, the selected resource may be requested to attend the office full time.

Reporting to the Section Manager, this role will have a direct impact in helping our cross
- functional teams deliver incremental value to the business and end user. You'll showcase your enthusiasm for leadership by guiding agile delivery teams in the planning, development, delivery, and early support of digital technology solutions. No two days will be the same as you manage project delivery aspects including scheduling, people leadership, facilitating agile events, providing thought-leadership, and championing a continuous improvement culture.

You will also regularly engage with key business stakeholders to understand their unique objectives and requests, participate with business analysts in discovery and definition scoping where required, and ultimately triage and prioritise the work.

You will make your mark with stakeholders by proactively keeping them informed and engaged in appropriate formats and forums as well as enabling self-service visibility of status updates in Azure DevOps.

**The key responsibilities for the Delivery manager are**:

- Own and drive the digital business pipeline of work in collaboration with Product Owners from across the organisation
- Engage with internal stakeholders to understand objectives and provide discovery and scoping (where required) to triage and prioritise
- Review current state ways of working, workload planning and prioritisation scoring with a lens of continuous improvement and path to best practice
- Proactively deliver recommendations to effectively pilot or embed new practices
- Effectively communicate delivery status updates, leveraging established forums as well as enabling self-service visibility in Azure DevOps
- Manage regular rituals for planning and prioritisation to set the focus for each sprint & increment
- Ensure projects are suitably resourced and report on progress, including risks and issues/problems and solutions
- Drive forward a culture of experimentation and test hypothesis and help embed consistent measurement methodologies
- Lead team retros and embed feedback loops that help drive and support decision making
- Be the face of the team and operate as the trusted advisor that represents both the productivity interests of the business, the wellbeing, development, and satisfaction of our teams
- Cultivate a strong sense of team purpose and identity and support with team workshops, development of team charters, vision, and purpose. This includes building strong delivery teams through recruitment, staff induction and training, where required
- Regularly identify and surface areas of team dependency or slow down, specifically surface current state challenges for discussion and improvement

**Role Requirements**:
You will have demonstrated experience across the following core competencies and duties.
- 5+ years' experience in roles such as delivery management, scrum master, agile coaching, or equivalent
- Agile certifications desirable
- Diversity and inclusion are strongly supported at Peoplebank. People of all nationalities, gender identities, and cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, are encouraged to apply._