Delivery 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 - Mar The project Our 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 role You '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