The successful candidate will be working in a digital delivery team responsible for transforming NCA’s digital & technology services. As a Digital Project Manager you will be responsible for the effective delivery of complex platforms and services, delivered at pace to achieve strategic outcomes, whilst maintaining and leading engagement with stakeholders across the NCA.

You will manage the iterative delivery roadmap of key projects ensuring dependencies and obstacles are overcome. You will play a key role in developing truly collaborative working relationships taking forward the Governments vision for Digital, Data and Technology to work together as part of Operational, Technology and Change communities.

Job description

The successful candidate will need to be able to lead and motivate others to achieve high performance and will need to be comfortable working with senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Based from one of our hubs in Bristol or London, the successful candidate will demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, leadership, commitment to delivery of outcomes and to be user centred. This will require you to:
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• Build and maintain motivated teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards
• Ensure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on what is most important
• Facilitate continuous improvement and apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment
• Proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles and get the best value against constraints
• Manage risks, budgets and people
• Engage with users and stakeholders through a range of channels
• Lead the team’s participation in wider governance (e.g. spend controls, service assessment, programme boards)
• Create a diverse, inclusive, supportive culture that stimulates innovation and enables high-performing teams to build and sustain high quality products.
 

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE
• Agile and lean practices: Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. Able to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mindset of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context. Able to measure and evaluate outcomes. Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes.

• Maintaining delivery momentum: Able to facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. Able to actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.

• Planning: Understands the environment and is able to prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. Able to use data to inform planning. Able to manage complex internal and external dependencies. Able to provide delivery confidence. Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect the plan and is able to develop a plan for difficult situations. Ensures teams plan appropriately for their own capacity.

• Team dynamics and collaboration: Able to bring people together to form a motivated team. Able to empower delivery teams. Able to help create the right environment for a team to work in. Recognises and deals with issues. Able to facilitate the best team makeup depending on the situation.

• Financial Management: Able to balance cost versus value. Able to consider the impact of user needs. Able to report on financial delivery. Able to monitor cost and budget and escalate issues.

• Lifecycle perspective: Recognises when to move from one stage of a product lifecycle to another. Ensures the team is working towards the appropriate design and service standards for the relevant phase. Able to manage the delivery products or services at different phases.

• Ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

• Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.

It is desirable that you have experience of:

• Commercial Management: Able to act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. Understands appropriate internal contacts and processes within a Government department. Understands how and when third parties should be brought into DDaT projects.

Training and Professional Qualifications
Essential at Entry
• Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent project management qualification
• Agile/Scrum/Lean experience preferably supported by recognised certifications.
• Proven experience in a digital project management role.

Desirable at Entry
Industry-recognised qualification:
• ITIL foundation certification
• Jira/Confluence experience
• Membership of relevant professional bodies

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Qualifications

The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

• Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent project management qualification
• Agile/Scrum/Lean experience preferably supported by recognised certifications

Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.

Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.

Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Agile and lean practices: Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use.
• Financial Management: Able to balance cost versus value.
• Lifecycle perspective

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check