About the role
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
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.
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.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
We understand that more applicants are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
Skilled worker sponsorship
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