We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us. We offer a great work life balance. You have the opportunity to work at any of our brand-new Regional Centres and to also work remotely. Contracts vary in length dependent upon the project with the possibility to extend.

Your time spent with us short or long term will be invaluable - your skills and expertise are needed to deliver the largest digital and transformation projects in Government. There really couldn’t be a better time to join HMRC for your new contract opportunity!

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior IT Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:

• The end-to-end delivery of one or more large and / or complex IT projects.
• Production and management of end-to-end IT delivery plans and status reports.
• Identification, management and mitigation of IT risks, issues and dependencies.
• Financial forecasting and tracking of IT project expenditure.
• Building and maintaining effective and collaborative relationships in order to achieve successful outcomes for the business.
• Reporting and communicating project deliverables, progress and benefits to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Applying your experience / understanding of both Agile and waterfall delivery methodologies in a Delivery Management setting.
• Working closely with business stakeholders, supporting, and understanding business needs and strategy, ensuring deliverables are understood, aligned, and agreed.
• Working closely with Product Managers, Delivery Managers or project managers collaboratively to ensure delivery of the products is aligned with the project scope, requirements, and timeline constraints.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria:

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate practical knowledge and experience in the following:

• Delivering large, complex, technical or IT-enabled change projects or programmes against a backdrop of large-scale organisational change
• Working as a member of a large / major complex project team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Operating across tight & complex governance frameworks, and a sound knowledge of risk & cost management.
• Using industry standard project management tools and methodologies.
• Project Governance including creating and managing a project plan and tracking risks / issues / dependencies.
• Utilising both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Building & maintaining positive and effective relationships with all key stakeholders across a large and complex organisation as well as managing stakeholder requirements and expectations.

Desirable Criteria:

Ideally, the successful candidate will also demonstrate knowledge and experience in the following:

• HMRC recognised project management tools and methodologies
• Previous experience in the HMRC IT end-to-end change lifecycle.