Graduate Delivery Manager
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The Seed Warehouse, Hertford, UK Salary: up to 34,999 depending on experience Hybrid Why we are hiring We are looking for a self-motivated, organised, process-oriented graduate to join our established Delivery Team and expand our capacity to deliver successful digital projects for high profile clients like United Nations, Oxfam and UCL. This role provides an exciting opportunity to learn all about agile delivery and join our team of talented individuals. Supported by our Delivery Director and Delivery Managers you’ll play a key role in the day to day delivery of projects for both new and existing projects, working alongside clients from a broad range of industries and sectors. The responsibilities of this important role include:
- Using our agile delivery processes to manage and deliver project work on a day to day basis
- Working closely with our Resource Manager and the wider Delivery team to appropriately and efficiently resource projects
- Providing excellent customer service and establishing constructive relationships with our clients
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of our agile delivery processes
- University College London
- University of Portsmouth
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Oxfam
- Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
- Westminster City Council
- Greater London Authority
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- United Nations
- Ofsted
- Understanding agile principles and why they are the backbone of software delivery
- Learning specifically about Scrum and its practical application at Zoocha, achieving Scrum Alliance certification.
- Becoming fluent in the language of agile delivery and concepts like the importance of the Definition of Sprint Ready and the Definition of Done
- Entering all engagements with a positive and collaborative mindset
- Capturing and circulating meaningful and complete actions and next steps
- Understanding your client’s goals and focus areas
- Clearly communicating risks and opportunities
- You MUST be based in the UK, ideally within regular commuting distance of our Hertford office, Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential.
- You MUST have a VISA or work permit already
- You MUST NOT apply through a recruitment consultant as your application will be disregarded
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A keen understanding of what great customer service looks like
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities with confidence to communicate at senior manager and director level within large organisations.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment as well as independently.
- Ability to elicit and analyse information from a variety of sources, presenting it to the relevant audience in an appropriate and understandable form
- A keen interest in technology and its application in solving business problems.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Flexible working plus the ability to work from any of our offices (UK, Spain, Brazil) for periods of time
- Outstanding benefits including profit share, private healthcare, gym and wellness fund
- An inclusive workplace with active advocacy networks for women, LGBTQI employees and people from ethnic minorities
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