• You’ll be responsible for running your programme and project teams and reporting into the Delivery Management leadership team and the operational board on programme status.
• This is also a line management position with responsibility for the pastoral care and career development of a small number of our amazing Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters.
• Other tasks as reasonably requested (yes, our lawyers asked for that one).

Requirements

A politically tuned, programme delivery wizard who can establish and control several streams of work across multi-year engagements; balancing the needs of each work stream against the programme objectives and stakeholder needs.
Creating and maintaining the environment in which the programme will succeed.
Making sure programmes, workstreams and projects are delivered beyond expectations.
Managing short- and long-term objectives and ensuring programmes track against these milestones.
Establishing and operating governance structures within programmes to ensure effective decision making and robust assurance.
Managing senior stakeholders both within Kerv Digital and our clients.
Reporting programme status to the Kerv Digital Leadership Team and the client.
Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business.
Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams.
Managing programme and project cost and time tracking.
Identifying and delivering change control and upsell.
Wrestling detailed requirements and designs into an implementable plan.
Managing an agile development process, directly and indirectly through our delivery managers and scrum masters.
Line management of a small team.
Ability to step into a project that needs to be reset, working with the stakeholders and the project team to turn things around.

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Hard Skills

programme delivery
project management
agile development
stakeholder management
cost tracking
time tracking
change control
requirements analysis
governance structures
milestone tracking

Soft Skills

leadership
communication
interpersonal skills
political acumen
problem-solving
team management
customer engagement
adaptability
decision making
career development

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