Full job descriptionDelivery Lead
Outside IR35: £550 - £600 p/d
Primarily remote, ad hoc travel to London possibly required
16th Nov start, 5 month initial contract. Extensions to follow
4 days a week up to Xmas, 3 days a week from Jan - MarThe projectOur client, a digital consultancy with a long track record in UK government, is building a new shared intranet for two large national public sector organisations. The project merges content from their two current intranets into a single site with a new information architecture.
The roleYou’ll lead delivery of the new intranet from kick-off to launch, taking the team through agile phases in line with government ways of working.
*Set up and run the delivery approach: plan, roadmap, ceremonies, RAID log and reporting
*Lead a multidisciplinary team through discovery, alpha and beta
*Plan and track the migration of content from two sites into one, including dependencies and cutover
*Keep senior stakeholders in both organisations aligned on scope, progress and decisions
*Spot risks and blockers early and clear them
*Work with the Product Owner on priorities and release plans
What you’ll bring*Delivery lead or delivery manager experience on UK government digital projects
*A track record of running work through agile phases (discovery, alpha, beta, live) to GDS ways of working
*Website development projects, ideally including content migration or a new information architecture
*Confident facilitation of agile ceremonies with multidisciplinary teams
*Senior stakeholder management across more than one organisation
*Experience leading remote teams
Nice to have*Intranet or internal communications platform projects
*Health or wider public sector experience
*Projects that bring together two organisations, sites or brands