Technical Delivery Manager

Publish Title: Technical Supply
Supervisor
Staff: Digital and Knowledge Options
Ref No: 202420
Grade: S
Wage: £38,320 + £5,000 relying on
expertise.

A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) as much as £5,000 each year, professional rata, could also be
agreed. This allowance is discretionary and can rely upon candidate’s {qualifications} and
expertise.

This submit may have a base in both Peterborough or Aberdeen.

JNCC has adopted a hybrid working strategy, permitting colleagues to learn from time in
the workplace, with the pliability additionally to make money working from home. Workers are anticipated to work from
our workplace base for 1 – 2 days a month at least, this can range by staff and the precise
steadiness will rely upon the character of your function. We will present extra particulars on the interview
and provide levels.

Who’re JNCC?

Established in 1991, we’re the UK’s statutory advisor on points affecting the pure
setting throughout the UK and internationally. Our main function is advising all 4
Governments of the UK. We additionally work with non-public sector organisations to assist choice
making on the sustainable use of marine waters and pure sources across the UK. JNCC is led
by the Joint Committee, which brings collectively members from the character conservation our bodies for
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire and unbiased members appointed by the
Secretary of State for the Setting, Meals and Rural Affairs underneath an unbiased Chair.
Help is offered to the Committee by approx. 300 individuals who deliver collectively scientific and
technical experience, intensive information of coverage at world, European and nationwide ranges, and
expertise in working with different organisations. Workers are based mostly in two fundamental workplaces in Peterborough
and Aberdeen.

Why JNCC?

We’re sufficiently small (c.300 employees) that your voice is heard by everybody together with the
CEO, however large enough that we now have all the abilities, sources and folks you’ll must get the
job completed. All our employees are keen about conservation and making a distinction to the world
we stay in. We have now a really versatile, inclusive and welcoming organisational tradition. Our
Government Administration supplies staff with the liberty and instruments you have to, and our
pleasant staff will help you in your function.

JNCC is dedicated to sustaining worker well being and wellbeing, whether or not it’s
bodily, emotionally, financially or socially, and provides a variety of advantages to assist
staff on this. Such advantages embrace the choice to hitch the Civil Service Pension Scheme,
skilled and private improvement alternatives in addition to an thrilling job in a novel
setting.

Hours of labor: Full-time

Regular minimal hours of attendance for the submit are 36 hours per week over a 5-day interval,
Monday to Friday.

Flexi time is obtainable. This submit may additionally be appropriate for job share.

Annual Go away:

The annual go away allowance is 25 days per yr, rising to 30 days per yr after 5 years’
service. There are additionally 12 days public and privilege go away. Half-time employees will obtain this
on a professional rata foundation.

Publish background

This thrilling new submit will lead a staff of software builders to ship progressive
environmental knowledge merchandise, cutting-edge earth commentary options, and bespoke functions
to satisfy the evolving wants of JNCC. The postholder will be part of the Digital and Knowledge Options
Staff which works throughout the organisation to ship software improvement alongside knowledge
engineering, challenge administration, knowledge safety, and knowledge administration experience.

The postholder will lead a staff of 4 builders, facilitating new improvement by choosing
acceptable applied sciences, managing Agile supply of labor, and liaising with prospects inside
and exterior to the organisation. Alongside this, you’ll work with the staff to assist,
monitor and preserve present functions and instruments.

You can be main a portfolio of initiatives that’s extremely diverse and dynamic. You may discover
your self engaged on utilising public cloud providers and nationwide supercomputing sources or
serving to to develop JNCC’s strategy to knowledge and metadata administration. Working with our technical
challenge managers and key scientists, the profitable candidate will assist organise improvement
time and assignments in addition to advising on technical points of challenge supply.

Throughout the staff there are many alternatives to work on initiatives of curiosity and collaborate
with like-minded builders and knowledge engineers. An curiosity in nature conservation and
ecological information can be useful to you however should not a requirement.

Publish Duties

• Line Handle 4 builders together with, however not restricted to, day after day assignments,
  prioritisation of duties, efficiency evaluations {and professional} improvement.
• Coordinate and ship a small portfolio of extremely technical initiatives from begin to end.
  In lots of circumstances, this can embrace enabling the applying improvement staff to ship work
  via facilitation of technical choice making, process task, administration of dangers and
  blockers.
• Have interaction with customers and key suppliers to agency up specs, handle expectations, conduct
  person acceptance testing and guarantee new functions are match for objective.
• Help, monitoring and upkeep of our suite of present instruments and functions,
  together with managing the utilisation of AWS and JASMIN (storage and knowledge evaluation supercomputer
  platform) environments.
• Develop options to supply environmental knowledge merchandise at scale.
• Advise management on technical technique and assist form organisational strategy to reducing
  edge system improvement.
• Handle the digital improvement finances in keeping with JNCC monitoring and reporting
  necessities. This may occasionally embrace supporting procurement processes for techniques and licences to
  inform challenge plans and present system upkeep.
• Hold abreast of latest IT applied sciences and methods and full particular person Steady
  Skilled Improvement (CPD) to take care of technical foreign money in languages and methodologies.

Technical

To be a profitable candidate you may be/have:

• Information of software program/functions improvement – with lifecycle product expertise within the
  design, improvement, testing, implementing and assist and upkeep of software program techniques.
• Detailed information of cloud internet hosting options (AWS most well-liked) and Python.
• Expertise and information of open-source improvement fashions and normal IT trade developments.
• Information of knowledge requirements, assessing knowledge high quality, translating knowledge between totally different
  codecs.

Expertise (Tasks)

To be a profitable candidate you’ll have:

• Expertise of, or aptitude for, main a hybrid-based improvement staff and managing a
  portfolio of labor in an Agile method.
• Expertise in challenge administration for digital challenge scoping and supply together with Agile
  methodologies and person centred design.
• Expertise in enterprise evaluation rules and methods, with specific reference to
  efficient liaison between technical consultants and prospects to outline, prioritise and articulate
  necessities as technical specs.
• Demonstrable means to create and apply progressive technical or digital options to
  assist particular areas of enterprise.

Behaviours

• Management
• Seeing the Large Image
• Speaking and Influencing
• Making Efficient Selections

Within the occasion that we obtain a big quantity of functions we reserve the proper to conduct the
sift based mostly on the Lead Behaviour of Management

Please see the CS Behaviours framework for extra particulars at this grade.

Nationality necessities 

This job is broadly open to the next teams: 

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth international locations who’ve the proper to work within the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Eire
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled standing or who apply
  for both standing by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working within the Civil Service
• related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who’ve constructed up the proper to work within the
  Civil Service
• sure members of the family of the related EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

JNCC don’t present sponsorship.

Deadline and interview date

The deadline for this submit is 23:55 on Wednesday, 17 April 2024

The anticipated interview date is week commencing Monday, 29 April 2024

Please notice that there will likely be two interviews for candidates who’re shortlisted. The primary
interview will deal with technical expertise and expertise and will embrace a brief presentation.
The second interview will likely be extra normal in nature, with a deal with expertise and expertise.
Additional particulars will likely be circulated to shortlisted candidates.