Lead Agile Programme Manager
c.£75,000 per annum
London
Fixed Term Contract – 23 Months
Hybrid Working
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Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) have an excellent opportunity for a Lead Agile Programme Manager to work on their Pensions Dashboard Programme (PDP). This is a fixed term contract over 23 months and is based in South-West London near Westminster. Are you a Digital Programme Manager that is experienced operating in an Agile delivery environment this could be right for you? In this role you can utilise your skills in building relationships, managing delivery plans, creating statements of work, producing cost models and managing budgets. If this is your skillset then we would like to hear from you?
Pensions Dashboard Programme:
Here is an insight to the Pensions Dashboard Programme:
Pensions dashboards will enable people to access key information about all of their UK pensions, private and State, in one place online, revolutionising how people engage with their pensions throughout their lives. Enabling the delivery of pensions dashboards will require up to 52m adults in the UK to be connected with up to around 43,000 pension providers and schemes to search for their pensions.
Development work by industry has already taken place, as a concept. The goal is now to turn it into a delivery solution for the benefit of UK citizens. MaPS has created a Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) which will be responsible for delivering the digital architecture and governance framework that will allow multiple parties to be connected as part of the pension’s dashboards ecosystem. This hugely significant development has the potential to improve the financial wellbeing of millions of people.
The programme is comprised of an Industry Steering Group and a supporting Programme team within MaPS. The Programme is working in close partnership with DWP, TPR and FCA who all have related delivery responsibilities. Industry has had, and will continue to have, a crucial role to play in designing and developing the necessary components to make pensions dashboards possible.
Responsibilities:
The Lead Agile Programme Manager will report directly to the Head of Digital Design and Delivery and in this role you will be responsible for the following:
- Supporting Pensions Dashboard Programme objectives through effective programme management in an agile environment;
- Working with the individual digital teams to ensure effective delivery plans are in place, up to date and accessible across the programme;
- Supporting the workstream Delivery Managers with ongoing delivery planning activities to ensure a consolidated plan is complete and up-to-date;
- Leading on the co-creation of requirements for Statements of Work for supplier partners with Delivery Managers and Commercial Leads.
- Working with commercial colleagues, digital teams and suppliers to operational manage contracts, including assuring supplier performance.
- Working with PMO to ensure workforce plans, budgets and digital delivery plans are in place, aligned with the wider programme and managed effectively;
- Coaching and supporting teams in the use of appropriate collaboration tools and techniques in ways which assure both value delivery and appropriate reporting. This includes encouraging consistency to ensure programme artefacts are complete, up to date and available to appropriate stakeholders;
- Providing insight into teams’ performance against forecast;
- Working with PMO and delivery teams to manage risks, issues and dependences within the programme;
- Supporting digital teams to remove blockers, actively support retrospective action and create the right environment for the multidisciplinary team to succeed
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility, shared accountability and team working is required, and the role-holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.
Skills and Experience:
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Essential Criteria:
- Experience of agile and lean practices to lead high performing teams to continuously improve, share information and set standards for other teams, including tooling such as Atlassian suite and Miro.
- Experience of drafting contracts / statements of work, cost models, resourcing plans, alongside supplier management and budget management in line with best practice.
- Building strategic relationships with a broad range of teams and individuals including, but not limited to: PMO, technical teams, service management teams, product managers, senior stakeholders and third party sub-contractors and suppliers. Communicating with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.
- Working with internal commercial colleagues and external suppliers to support and manage commercial relationships to enable delivery.
- Able to lead a continual planning process (coping with often rapid reprioritisation) in a complex environment.
- Able to identify and manage risks and dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery. Enabling onward reporting of Sprint level progress to support Programme level reporting.
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience of working in central government, delivering against Government Digital Service (GDS) Standards
- Experience within the pensions industry and/or Department of Work and Pensions, Pensions Directorate
- A good understanding of issues within a large development programme
- Experience of establishing ways of working and leading diverse teams needed
- Helping construct and deliver messages across all stakeholders on a project, ensuring they are communicated with on a consistent basis.
If you’re already a MaPS employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@maps.org.uk
How to apply:
To apply for this position, we kindly request that you submit a cover letter of up to 500 words. Give evidential points against the job description to demonstrate how you are closely aligned to the role and detail why you want to work for the Money and Pensions Service.
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At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people in and around Bedford to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
About MaPS
At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, we make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, however and whenever they need it.
Our inclusive working environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.
We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.
Information:
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At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people in and around Bedford to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
About MaPS
At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, we make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, however and whenever they need it.
Our inclusive working environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.
We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.
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