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Delivery Lead

The role

As a Delivery Lead, you will be key to engaging and empowering cross-functional streams to deliver value and continuously improve their ways of working. In this role, you will embrace the servant-leader approach to build trust and foster a high-performance culture that delivers exceptional outcomes for OES, its students and partners.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and coach cross-functional teams to self-organise and achieve a higher level of maturity through continuous, incremental and sustainable change.
• Manage stakeholders, partnerships, sprints, scope, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops to be purposeful and effective.
• Support Product Owners with backlog refinement, applying validated learning, crafting goals and engaging key stakeholders.
• Work to anticipate and remove obstacles for the development teams.
• Engage, influence and collaborate with a broad cross-section of the business to educate and promote agile ways of working.
• Foster the progression toward a more streamlined delivery culture that supports team engagement and high performance
• Drive the delivery of new partnerships from inception and clearly communicate the strategic objectives to gain buy-in.
• Take an active role in mentoring and coaching less experienced team members.

The must have’s

• 3+ years of experience managing projects, coaching cross-functional teams or leading iterative development teams.
• Engaging communication and facilitation skills with experience energising teams and building strong relationships across the organisation.
• Applied understanding of agile frameworks and methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Design Thinking and Human Centred Design.
• Demonstrated leadership with a proven ability to motivate, negotiate and resolve disputes with stakeholders and teams.
• Excellent critical thinker with the capacity to think both strategically and tactically
• Proven experience applying validated learning to deliver high quality products to the customer.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
• Solid understanding of web technologies, architecture and complex systems.

The team

You will be joining a high performing, supportive, friendly & fun team who value each other and genuinely get on. You will be part of a broader team which cares about what you do, and shows appreciation for the value you are adding.

Ready to join us?

‘Apply now’ with a cover letter and resume outlining why this is the role you’ve been searching for and why you’re the person we want in it.

Applications close
5 November 2020