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We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.\nWe committed to spend £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.\nThese challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.\nWe are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our team.\nWhere in Wellcome will I be working? - Digital & Technology\nYou will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department. In this role, you will matrix work with teams in the Digital & Technology department. We currently have several projects and product/workstream teams, whose work consists of public-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, data infrastructure, a bespoke CRM system for all our grants and IT teams. We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects.\nWhat will I be doing?\nYou will work with one of our technical projects, product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle. You will work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them.\nAs a Delivery Manager, you will:\nHave a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards\nIdentify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance ways of working in product teams, workstream teams and technology teams\nFoster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments\nIdentify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery\nBe the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates\nSupport with informed goal setting techniques, enabling teams to work with sprint goals and OKR\nHave a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs\nIs this job for me?\nWe are looking for someone who:\nHas previous experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master in a digital & technology environment\nIs experienced working collaboratively with subject matter experts, product managers, designers, user researchers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully\nIs experienced evaluating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban\nHas an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving\nHas strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs\nHas proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties\nTo apply for this role please submit an updated CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role.\nMinimum Criteria:\nExperience working as a delivery manager or scrum master delivering data & digital products, programmes or workstreams in digital & technology environments\nPractical experience applying agile concepts such as Scrum and Kanban\nExperience working with OKRs or similar goal setting frameworks\nExperience working with different types of agile product teams with varying maturity and complexity\nApplications Questions:\nUsing examples please provide evidence to demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as outlined in the job description? (Up to 500 words)\nUsing short summaries please provide specific details of up to two different initiatives or projects you have been directly involved in that are relevant to this role. For each initiative or project please use up to 250 words to describe your role (e.g. team leader, team member), the purpose of the activity (i.e. its aims), and the major contributions you personally made.\nYou can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website\nOur Hybrid Way of Working\nWe understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.\nAt Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.\nDiversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do\nDiversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. 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