Agile Delivery Manager (Internal Only)

Job title:

Agile Delivery Manager (Internal Only)

Company:

University College London

Job description

About usUCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Part of UCL’s vision is to take on the hardest global challenges. The Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.

About the roleLocated within UCL’s, Information Services Division (ISD), and working in collaboration UCL Estates Division, the Agile Delivery Manager will working within the Digital Campus Experience Portfolio.The secondment for the Agile Delivery Manager will be responsible managing a diverse matrix team of AV, Network and third-party installation suppliers to forward plan, design and delivering UCL Estates led initiatives to upgrade teaching spaces and meeting rooms. These activities will follow the SAFe Agile Framework of Termly Increments (TI), where work is discussed, assigned to teams, and then scheduled into sprints.You will oversee the delivery of upgrades to teaching space and meeting room working with subject matter experts from the AV and network teams, agreeing forward plans, ensuring AV narratives and designs are produced and aligned to the upgrade outcomes agreed in the forward plan.You will be required to manage risks and issues through facilitating the team to manage any problems and agree solutions that are then planned into sprints.Proactively manage the finances to ensure that financial actuals and forecasts are maintained and regularly reviewed and invoices for suppliers are receipted upon delivery, to manage and track the finance expenditures, ensuring a clear view of the overall budget and commitments are being managed and regularly reviewed with the product owner.You will also be required to oversee the delivery of the upgrades to ensure all work is being carried out as per the designs agreed with the subject matter experts.PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE: 60% ONSITE / 40% REMOTEAbout youThe candidate is required to have demonstratable experience of delivering Network/AV upgrades in their current role.The successful candidate will have good communication, forward planning and risk management skills. With proven experience of managing stakeholder expectations across the organisation.Good stakeholder management skills are essential with the ability to proactively work across multiple teams across the organisation, ensuring that requirements are translated into narratives and designs, agreed forward plans that are transposed into Agile stories to support the delivery of the work during Termly Increments (TI), ensuring they are on time and within budget.This role requires an ambitious person that wants to progress their career at UCL. You will be supported and mentored by subject matter experts and senior management, and will receive training in the SAFe Agile Framework in order to further your career at UCL.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.Available documents

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Location

North West London

Job date

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:02:48 GMT

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