Head of Delivery

Join Social Security Scotland at a pivotal point in its transformation journey. As Head of Delivery, you will lead the development of a modern, collaborative and outcome-focused delivery function, ensuring change initiatives are delivered effectively and aligned to strategic and ministerial priorities.
With responsibility for overseeing delivery performance, governance, risks and dependencies across a complex change portfolio, you will be instrumental in enabling successful transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence organisational direction, build delivery capability and drive a culture of continuous improvement that supports better outcomes for colleagues and citizens alike.
The Head of Delivery is accountable for the delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams or have high technical or political risk.
At this role level, you will:

• Manage dependencies of varying complexity, potentially planning and feeding into larger programmes and portfolios.
• Remove blockers and manage risks, commercials, budgets and people.
• Balance objectives and redeploy people and resources as priorities change.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of Agile and other methodologies.
• Be responsible for understanding, managing and communicating to complex stakeholder groups, balancing priorities.
• Have an awareness of the bigger picture.
• Support the Executive Team by overseeing the delivery of their vision for the programme.
• Support and coach delivery managers.