Reference:
SKPSR/ChRe/87
Sector:
Change & Digital Transformation, Development and Integration
Salary:
£545 Per Day
Town/City:
Southport(w/ some travel)
Contract Type:
Contract
Closing Date:
16/01/2025
Role: Change and Release Manager
Contracting Authority: Public Sector
Contract Length: 6 Months
Location: Southport (some travel required)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate: Up to £545 per day
Clearance: SC Clearance
An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Change and Release Manager to join their welcoming team.
The Change and Release Manager Role:
- Leading and managing the Release Management process and allocated staff and workload for the assigned services, ensuring that standards and timescales are met, whilst demonstrating value for money
- Organising team engagement with Incident Management during major incidents, ensuring that appropriate release management representation is made on technical bridge calls when required
- Managing patterns or trends of non-compliance of the Release assurance policies and processes, by engaging at a senior level with Business Portfolios, Suppliers, Transition or Project Managers where necessary
- Engaging with service transition teams to define processes for interim operating model capabilities for those assigned to release management
- Setting the strategy for the Operational Release Management team, deciding areas of focus and priority, ensuring that processes are well-documented and reflective of best practice, and agreeing templates and frameworks for process variations
- Support Portfolio stakeholders in all programme delivery activities
- Provide inputs to help develop delivery strategies, scheduling delivery
- Manage program/portfolio schedule
- Plan and organise Go / NO-GO meetings and help achieve decisions
- Update business stakeholders on progress and everything related to delivering the project
- Manage portfolio delivery pipeline
- Organise and contribute to CAB (Change Board)
- Review resource and skill availability to ensure effective delivery
- Co-ordinate with different project managers, delivery teams and help resolve queries, blockers
What the Change and Release Manager Will Need:
- Experience of developing, implementing, and adhering to ITIL v3 / v4 management processes and procedures
- Experience in similar role within public sector
- Proven ability to lead and manage large teams
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong customer-focused
- Proven ability to influence Service Architect & Design function to develop robust plans focused on service introduction and releases to minimise disruption to operational services
- Creating and managing end to end plans, containing complex dependences and multiple workstreams
- Navigating cross-government teams and supplier agreements
- Supporting the design, agreement, and implementation of a relevant service
- Knowledge of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles within a Product-centric delivery model
- Knowledge of the General Register Office and His Majesty Passport Office
- Experience in the key critical services undergoing transformation in the CReST programme
- Test management background to effectively orchestrate multiple change and release roadmaps
Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Interviews will take place this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity.
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