Job Opportunity: 22/029 Agile Delivery Lead:

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Job Description

Type: Fixed Term – 12 months
Hours: Full time
Job location: Wellington
Business Group : All of Government Services Delivery
Branch: Digital Public Service

AGILE DELIVERY LEAD –Fixed term/ Secondment - 12 Months

   »Coach and build agile best practice across key digital programmes
   »Bring your agile skills to a function where your input will be valued, and the work will be impactful
   »A range of flexible working options to meet yourwh?nauand life commitments
About us:
In a field where the pace of change is rapid, the Digital Public Service branch works with and through agencies to drive and deliver a customer-centred digital government. We are transforming the way we work to build on our expertise and ultimately create an environment that responds quickly to meet the needs of a faster, agile and inclusive digital government service.
Playing a key function in supporting the Government Chief Digital agent and the strategy for the Digital Public Service, We are seeking for talent who can work collaboratively to leverage our people and technology, to improve and drive for a unify digital public service for all New Zealanders. More information on our work programmes can be found here:https://www.digital.govt.nz/digital-government/strategy/
Meet our people –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7k4HZP2N0
About the function:
The Agile Delivery Lead is part of the All of Government Service Delivery Group (AoG) within the Digital Public Service branch and is focused on building agency capcapability to identify opportunities and create leverage to provide a more accessible, robust and design-forward digital service across Government.
As the lead you will facilitate and engage across teams using agile ways of working to help squads effectively deliver across their digital products and services.
You will bring a continuous improvement mindset and value being part of a strong team culture where you can coach and mentor squads to be accountable and customer centric.
What will you bring to the function?
   » Facilitate agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and demos ensuring an agile approach is pragmatically adopted and maintained
   » Work collaboratively with product owners, SME's, technology leads to builds strong and sustainable relationships cross-functionally, to enable alignment of work and to agreed delivery plans
   » Be passion for your field of skills and proactive in identifying continuous improvements opportunities
   » Bring a high degree of influencing and negotiating skill so project teams understand the importance of delivering quality work and meeting deadlines
   » Possess a “can do attitude” – take ownership of the task, promote accountcapability for the results
   » Have well-developed time management and organisational skills to manage resources, processes and activities within agreed deliverables
   » Be proficient in applying agile methodologies and be able to practically apply these to coach and mentor teams to improve the delivery while removing and impediments
   » Possess excellent structured thinking, emotional intelligence and a rational and inquisitive approach to solving problems
   » Be comfortable in using appropriate metrics to track and forecast delivery, manage expectations and highlight and improve inefficiencies in ways of working
   » Enable positive engagement with squads by building a positive psychologically safe culture where every voice is heard.
What we offer:
   » exposure across government agencies with value-driven interesting work
   » The on-going support of teams within the branch to encourage diversity of thought and challenge the status quo and expertise sharing
   » A range of benefits including access to discounted healthcare, subsided school holiday programmes, allowance for vision and hearing care, with a variety of social committee and networks available
We offer a culture where our people are committed to creating a working environment that is inclusive and encourages talent and potential to thrive. We strongly believe in work life balance and this is practiced with a range of flexible work options and wellbeing initiatives - just talk to us about what works for you

How to submit the application:

Applications close: 5pm, Monday 7 February2022For more information Contact Us by:Richard Ashworth at Richard.Ashworth@dia.govt.nzListing descriptionTo review the full job description, pleaseclick here. If you are unable to follow the link, please review the full job description on our careers website.

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Post Date:	2025/10/21 / Viewed 4481 times
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