Delivery Manager
Delivery Manager
Salary: £44,241 per annum (Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000)
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham, Yeading
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 24th May 2026
About the job
This role will work with in the within the Digital and Data Directorate within the Delivery and Service Management Team.
You will lead multi-disciplinary and matrix managed teams across Tech Services specifically in Infrastructure and User Services.
You will support your team by providing guidance and direction as they deliver their projects, such as Tech Refresh and application roll outs to provide delivery leadership to drive real engagement, trust and respect
The key to successful delivery will be ensuring in-scope business requirements are delivered within time constraints. This is a critical role in the context of building sustainable capability to operate, support and improve technology services.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Job description
This role will work with in the within the Digital and Data Directorate within the Delivery and Service Management Team.
You will lead multi-disciplinary and matrix managed teams across Tech Services specifically in Infrastructure and User Services. Some examples of projects or initiatives you could lead or be involved in include the Body Camera initiative, Automation Opportunities Project, the retender and implementation of major contracts such as our Technical Support Services Contract (TSS) and the roll out of tech across the entire DVSA estate
You will support your team by providing guidance and direction as they deliver their projects, such as Tech Refresh and application roll outs to provide delivery leadership to drive real engagement, trust and respect
The key to successful delivery will be ensuring in-scope business requirements are delivered within time constraints. This is a critical role in the context of building sustainable capability to operate, support and improve technology services.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
Person specification
Required experience:
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Experience working in a large or medium complexity project team or leading small to medium projects with small to medium complexity.
- Strong evidence of planning, budget management, resource management, risk and issues management, governance and reporting in a project environment.
- Strong negotiation skills and a proven ability to influence external partners, senior stakeholders and customers to achieve successful outcomes for the business.
- Commercial awareness including managing and monitoring of project costs and budgets to deliver value for money.
- Demonstrable leadership and experience in building and developing high performing teams
- Has or is willing to work towards: APMQ/PRINCE2/AgilePM or similar and ITIL v4 foundation.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for DVSA, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.