Senior ODA Delivery Manager
Job summary
The Senior Office of Data & Analytics (ODA) Delivery Manager is an important role as the Trust leads up to and delivers the Electronic Patient Record implementation.
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager will play in integral role in the prioritisation, planning and delivery of the Office of Data & Analytics work in alignment with the Trust's strategic priorities.
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager will work with senior colleagues to identify and refine key requirements. This post will then negotiate and agree priorities amongst the ODA's Extended SLT.
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager will take these priorities on to The ODA Multidisciplinary Squads (which may contain Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, Data & Analytics Business Partners, Test Engineers etc.) and oversee the delivery of the projects through agile management techniques.
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager will communicate progress and blockers clearly and will facilitate the delivery of squad's work.
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager should be:
- Aligned with Trust strategic priorities
- Confident challenging requirement alignment to strategic priorities
- A strong communicator
- Adept at communicating technically and non-technically
- A shrewd negotiator
- A strong project manager and leader
- Calm under pressure
- Able to motivate and enthuse
- Personable
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.
Main duties of the job
The Senior ODA Delivery Manager's main duties will be to:
- Drive the prioritisation & refinement of requirements
- Gain consensus between ODA extended SLT on priorities
- Take priorities into multi-disciplinary squads
- Manage the delivery of priority requirements within the squads
- Communicate progress back to ODA extended SLT and beyond
- Provide line management as necessary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential person specification requirements
Qualifications:
- Educated to Masters Level or ability to demonstrate equivalent level of experience in a relevant field
- Certified Agile Qualification or good knowledge and experience of agile practices, tools and techniques
Knowledge & Skills:
- Extensive knowledge of digital industry standards and processes for successfully planning and managing the delivery of digitally enabled systems and services
- An understanding of equal opportunities and the meaning of valuing diversity
- Excellent analytical and data/information management skills
- Excellent communication skills including preparation and delivery of presentations, workshop design/ facilitation and highly effective inter-personal communication skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly complex ideas to a range of audiences where there are significant barriers to acceptance
- Excellent leadership skills – able to identify and adopt appropriate management and leadership strategies and styles to suit specific situations
- Expert user of standard Microsoft packages (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Experience:
- Proven experience in delivering high quality digital projects and products that meet user’s needs and intended outcomes
- Extensive experience in using agile project management methods and using a range of techniques to drive delivery
- Extensive experience in using and configuring tools to support agile planning and delivery, e.g Monday.com & Trello
- Proven experience in challenging and removing any unnecessary barriers to service delivery
- Experience in scaling services into robust live operation
- Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
- Extensive client-facing / stakeholder management experience including clients, stakeholders and contractors
- Proven experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address
Dewsbury Hospital
Halifax Road
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
WF13 4HS
Employer's website
https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/