Job Description
ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation with offices in Glasgow and Dundee are currently looking to recruit 4x Delivery Managers on initial 6 month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £435/day inside of IR35 (based on experience). These roles are hybrid with 2 days per week in either the Glasgow or Dundee offices.
Responsibilities:
- Managing end to end delivery planning, including risks, issues, and dependencies
- Providing governance, reporting, and assurance to senior stakeholders
- Supporting Product Owners and leadership to deliver strategic and ministerial priorities
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams to maintain delivery momentum during a period of high demand
- Act as the primary coordination, aligning plans, timelines, and impacts
- Manage critical external dependencies, particularly system interfaces and integrations
- Assess incoming changes and coordinate internal responses
- Ensure accurate communication of planned changes to minimise disruption
- Oversee cross organisational delivery involving external partners
- Identify and mitigate risks relating to interfaces, data, and integrations
Essential Experience:
- Experienced Delivery/Project Manager who has previously worked in the Public Sector
- Experience of delivering using Agile methodologies
- Experienced in the use of key tools to make delivery more effective (Jira, Confluence, Miro, Slack etc.)
- Strong organisational skills, adaptable and able to deliver to agreed timescales and deadlines
- Ability to coach and mentor team members to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques Able to build professional relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders in order to drive delivery
- Able to work as part of a team, while being comfortable to work alone on key work streams
- Able to identify and source relevant information to align to ways of working and delivery methodology