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Project Manager - Agile Lead

About the role

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We are looking for a skilled Agile Project Manager to join the Technology and Digital Service on an permanent basis to support our development teams and product road mapping ambitions.

This is an amazing opportunity to support the Technology and Digital Service as we strive to mature our delivery model.

We need to enable a more agile and collaborative service with the ability to react to the organisations changing needs and deliver value as quickly as possible.

We are fully focussed on delivering on the Technology and Digital Strategy, and need to build robust agile processes to support our innovation and productivity agenda, this role will be pivotal in developing and embedding these processes across our service.

In addition to the core agile process development, we are looking for someone that has a technology focus and who would like to expand their skillsets and support our Apps service in the development of our "Product Ownership and Road mapping" model, this is an exciting part of the "Technology and Digital Offer" and is essential to support our core services in maximising efficiencies from the tools that we invest in.

What will you be doing?

The role will overlap between our Apps and Digital teams, time will be split between the day to day responsibilities of agile project management and a more strategic role around establishing our Product Ownership approach.

Day-Day:

Work with our Digital Relationship Leads to manage the inbound pipeline of work
Act as the Scrum Master and support the Sprint Teams to prioritise their workload
Link with wider parts of the service to co-ordinate requirements and resources as needed by the sprint teams to deliver their assigned tasks
Work with the wider teams to look at the way we handle "work" which falls outside the day-day support work. Each team needs a modified "sprint" type process to enable it to support the different types of work we do which goes beyond "support"
Support any new "projects" as they arrive into the service that requires agile project management

Planning:

Develop our Agile process to fit the needs of the service
Support the scrum teams to become self-managing and more efficient
Support our Apps Team to develop its "Product Ownership" model
Help our Apps Team to develop RACI models for each of the core case management systems across services such as Children's, Adults, Housing, Revs and Bens etc.
Begin to plan "product roadmaps" and development cycles for each of the core case management systems

About you

You will need to be an experienced Agile Project manager with a history of delivering both large complex projects as well as manage delivery of pipelines delivering short pieces of development work.

We need you to be rooted in technology project delivery and have a genuine interest in the work that you are doing. You need to be able to talk tech with our technologists, and then switch back to project mode when you're engaging outside of the service.

As our agile SME we need you to help us develop our core processes, drive work out of the door and support colleagues who may have no agile experience to become fully aware.

This role will need someone willing to move beyond their existing Project Management remit and use their understanding of agile principles and the importance of stakeholder feedback loops, to help us build out our "shared product ownership" model which will completely re-define the way we have traditionally managed these critical systems.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

a competitive salary
a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

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