As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will facilitate the continuous delivery of value at Comic Relief. You will support cross-functional teams of product, data, design and engineering to ensure high-value outputs are consistently being delivered by the Digital & Innovation teams. You will be at the forefront of nurturing a culture of collaboration continuous improvement and learning throughout the organisation.
Key responsibilities:
- Champion agile delivery methodology and help build understanding and capability across all teams.
- Facilitate cross-functional groups to plan and deliver projects – identifying which methodology best fits the needs and style of the team.
- Make sure projects are appropriately resourced with the skills and expertise to meet their needs.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams to ensure there is a clear pipeline of work to be delivered next.
- Identify and mitigate risk and blockers to successful delivery.
Manage, monitor and measure workflows to ensure value is delivered early and often. - Protect the team, put people before process and make sure energy is channelled into value.
- Take a pragmatic approach to capability building, adapting to different business needs or styles.
Essential Education and Competencies:
- Experience of championing agile delivery practice within an organisation.
- Knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and lean methodologies coupled with a deep understanding of the principles of agile and the processes behind effective product delivery.
- Skilled communicator – able to flex style between coach, adviser, manager and challenger.
- Collaborative worker – able to work closely with leadership and other teams.
- Effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Keen interest in coaching – ability to engage, motivate and deliver change to create an iterative and evidence driven mindset.
- Curious and creative thinker – to create a learning organisation committed to continuous improvement and always striving to do things better.
- Resilient – with the ability to stay the course to embed an agile culture.
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