Senior Delivery Manager (Ref: 21990)

Job summary

Job description

Senior Delivery Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: Sunday 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 2 Senior Delivery Managers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science 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 Justice Digital’s 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 Justice Digital’s 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.

• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.

• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.

• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science 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 Justice Digital, 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 –