Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 23rd September 2026

Interviews: W/C 5 October & 12 October 2026

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: National: £58,511-£65,329

London: £63,343- £70,725 which may include an allowance up to £332

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 6

Vacancy number: 21990

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for 6 Senior Delivery Managers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science (JDDS) to be part of our warm and collaborative Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) Digital team and Prisons Digital Team.

The OPG is an executive agency, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. It helps people in England and Wales to stay in control of decisions about their health and finance and make important decisions for others who cannot decide for themselves. You’ll be working across a number of multi-disciplinary teams that build and support services for the OPG, its partners and the general public.

OPG Digital is recognised for its trailblazing work having migrated from its legacy platforms to fully cloud-based systems. Our teams practise continuous delivery and test-driven development, with production deployments multiple times a day.

In Prisons Digital, we build and maintain digital products and tools that help to:

• protect the public
• provide decent and safe spaces in which to live and work
• reduce reoffending by rehabilitating the people in our care through education and employment

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary digital teams and with stakeholders across policy and operations, delivering digital services for prisons that meet user needs and business requirements. You will use the knowledge you gain of how users work and the policy they must comply with to develop and maintain services that speed up complex processes and help prisons to run more efficiently.

This role aligns against Product and Delivery, Senior Delivery Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

The Senior Delivery Manager role sits within JDDS' delivery profession and is responsible for enabling the effective delivery of complex, high-risk digital services and products.

Senior Delivery Managers provide leadership and support to multiple delivery teams, manage risks and dependencies, and help teams maintain focus and momentum. You will be responsible for building team capability, promoting agile practices, and influencing senior stakeholders to create a culture of continuous improvement.

You’ll also be an active member of JDDS' delivery management community contributing through mentoring, coaching, and sharing expertise.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ JDDS please take a look at our blog.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Delivery Manager at JDDS, you will:

• Lead delivery of complex or high-risk products and services with confidence.
• Build and support high-performing teams that are motivated, inclusive and user-centred.
• Coach and line manage delivery managers and support capability building across the profession.
• Manage dependencies and unblock delivery risks across teams, departments or portfolios.
• Promote agile and lean practices and help teams adopt the most appropriate tools and techniques.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders across technical and non-technical boundaries.
• Influence decisions and lead change that improves delivery outcomes.
• Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers.
• Advocate for professional development and contribute to the wider delivery community.

Person Specification

Essential

• Agile and Lean Practices – You have deep knowledge and experience of working with a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques, with an ability to coach within and outside of the team. You are a recognised expert who advocates these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging teams. You should be able to provide evidence of applying these practices in a digital environment.
• Planning – You have experience leading a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You identify dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery, managing relationships between different people within and across teams. You coach other teams as the central point of expertise and maintain the cadence of delivery.
• Maintaining Delivery Momentum – You have a proven track record of actively addressing the most complicated risks and identifying innovative ways to unblock issues, managing dependencies across teams, departments or government as a whole, as well as driving teams and setting the pace, and ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments.
• Making the Process Work – Demonstrable ability to focus on the outcome, challenge and improve disproportionate organisational processes where it impacts the pace of the team. Able to identify what works best for the team and when to utilise certain processes. Understands that all steps in a process must add value. Able to influence and make positive changes to the organisation.
• Leadership – Promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity, respecting difference and external experience. Welcome and respond to views and challenges from others, despite any conflicting pressures to ignore or give in to them. Stand by, promote or defend your own and your team’s actions and decisions where needed seek out shared interests beyond your own area of responsibility, understanding the extent of the impact actions have on the organisation. Inspire and motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role.
• Team Dynamics and collaboration - You know how to build successful delivery teams. You understand team styles and how people work together. You can maintain, influence and motivate a team. You can give and receive feedback, facilitating the feedback loop. You can ensure the health of a team and facilitate conflict resolution, accelerating team performance. You can ensure that the team works in a transparent way and that the work is understood externally. You can create an open and collaborative working environment; you are flexible, adaptable and have a willingness to learn. You can recognise how people work together, facilitating the best team make-up depending on the situation. You know how to help teams maintain a focus on delivery while being aware of the importance of professional development.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Salary Information**

Base salary for this role is from:

National: £58,511 - £65,329, London: £63,343 - £70,725

• New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
• Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
• Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
• Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to £332 per year (London). This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn.

The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

How to Apply

In JDDS, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
• A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below:

• Agile and Lean Practices
• Maintaining Delivery Momentum
• Team Dynamics and collaboration

Candidates who do not adhere to the Personal Statement directions above may be rejected on this basis.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on application of Agile and Lean practices in a digital environment will be conducted before the sift.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements – Experience (see person specification above), and the following Behaviours:

· Communicating and Influencing

· Leadership

· Delivering at Pace

· Changing and Improving

As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a presentation that assesses Team Dynamics and Collaboration. Further details will be provided if successful prior to interview.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the Delivering at Pace will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk