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Agile Delivery Manager

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£40,000 - 45,000
Closing date
5 Jun 2019

Job Details

Agile Delivery Manager

Team: Digital and Innovation

£40,000 - 45,000

London

As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will facilitate the continuous delivery of value at Comic Relief. You will support cross-functional teams of product, data, design and engineering to ensure high-value outputs are consistently being delivered by the Digital & Innovation teams. You will be at the forefront of nurturing a culture of collaboration continuous improvement and learning throughout the organisation.

Key responsibilities:

Champion agile delivery methodology and help build understanding and capability across all teams.

Facilitate cross-functional groups to plan and deliver projects – identifying which methodology best fits the needs and style of the team.

  • Make sure projects are appropriately resourced with the skills and expertise to meet their needs.
  • Coordinate multiple workstreams to ensure there is a clear pipeline of work to be delivered next.
  • Identify and mitigate risk and blockers to successful delivery.
  • Manage, monitor and measure workflows to ensure value is delivered early and often.
  • Protect the team, put people before process and make sure energy is channelled into value.
  • Take a pragmatic approach to capability building, adapting to different business needs or styles.

Essential Education and Competencies:

  • Experience of championing agile delivery practice within an organisation.
  • Knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and lean methodologies coupled with a deep understanding of the principles of agile and the processes behind effective product delivery.
  • Skilled communicator – able to flex style between coach, adviser, manager and challenger.
  • Collaborative worker – able to work closely with leadership and other teams.
  • Effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management skills.
  • Keen interest in coaching – ability to engage, motivate and deliver change to create an iterative and evidence driven mindset.
  • Curious and creative thinker – to create a learning organisation committed to continuous improvement and always striving to do things better.
  • Resilient – with the ability to stay the course to embed an agile culture.

To apply please visit our website via the link

Role closes - 12:00pm, 5th Jun 2019 BST (Europe/London)

 

 

 

 

 

Company

Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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