Project Manager - Agile Lead

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Job Reference Ref/97679/8834

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Full Time Contract Details: This is a permanent Post for internal candidates only Salary Range : This is an internal only opportunity and is an NNC Band 8 post Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday Location: Haylock House, Kettering Closing Date: 21/10/2026 Job Category: IT Organisation: North Northamptonshire Council

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Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

 

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

CURRENTLY THIS JOB IS FOR NNC EMPLOYEES ONLY PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A COUNCIL EMPLOYEE

We are looking for a skilled Agile Project Manager to join the Technology and Digital Service on an permanent basis to support our development teams and product road mapping ambitions. 

This is an amazing opportunity to support the Technology and Digital Service as we strive to mature our delivery model. 

We need to enable a more agile and collaborative service with the ability to react to the organisations changing needs and deliver value as quickly as possible.   

We are fully focussed on delivering on the Technology and Digital Strategy, and need to build robust agile processes to support our innovation and productivity agenda, this role will be pivotal in developing and embedding these processes across our service.

In addition to the core agile process development, we are looking for someone that has a technology focus and who would like to expand their skillsets and support our Apps service in the development of our "Product Ownership and Road mapping" model, this is an exciting part of the "Technology and Digital Offer" and is essential to support our core services in maximising efficiencies from the tools that we invest in.   

What will you be doing?

The role will overlap between our Apps and Digital teams, time will be split between the day to day responsibilities of agile project management and a more strategic role around establishing our Product Ownership approach.

Day-Day:

• Work with our Digital Relationship Leads to manage the inbound pipeline of work
• Act as the Scrum Master and support the Sprint Teams to prioritise their workload 
• Link with wider parts of the service to co-ordinate requirements and resources as needed by the sprint teams to deliver their assigned tasks
• Work with the wider teams to look at the way we handle "work" which falls outside the day-day support work. Each team needs a modified "sprint" type process to enable it to support the different types of work we do which goes beyond "support"
• Support any new "projects" as they arrive into the service that requires agile project management 

Planning:

• Develop our Agile process to fit the needs of the service
• Support the scrum teams to become self-managing and more efficient
• Support our Apps Team to develop its