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Job summary
We’re looking for an exceptional Delivery Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Delivery Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
World changing work
From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.
- We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
- We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Job description
We are looking for a Delivery Manager to help coordinate, prioritise and improve the flow of work through our Enterprise Design capability.
This role sits within Enterprise Design, wherewe provide specialist roles and support the Met Office in both projects and programmes as well as business as usual initiatives. Our teams include Business Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Data Knowledge and information Management. This role will enable cross-cutting delivery across a multidisciplinary capability. You will work with internal teams, external delivery partners, suppliers and stakeholders to coordinate activity, manage dependencies, remove blockers and maintain momentum across a complex change landscape.
This is not a traditional delivery management role focused solely within technical and product development projects. As our Enterprise Design capability develops, the nature of this role will continue to evolve. We need someone who is comfortable working in a changing environment, bringing structure to ambiguity, supporting good governance and helping move ideas from design into implementation.
This will include practical delivery coordination as well as important administrative activity, such as maintaining records, preparing reports, following up actions and decisions, and keeping stakeholders engaged and informed. The role is especially important where delivery spans external delivery partners, internal teams, governance forums, suppliers and multiple business areas.
Your key duties:
You will:
- Manage the Enterprise Design demand pipeline, ensuring requests are captured consistently, triaged, prioritised, assigned and tracked through to outcome.
- Maintain Jira (planning & tracking tool) and associated reporting to provide a clear view of work in progress, priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, assurance activity and delivery commitments.
- Coordinate activity across Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Knowledge and Information Management, Design Assurance specialists and relevant delivery partners.
- Manage the workflow and administration of design assurance and related reviews, ensuring the right specialists are engaged at the right stage of demand and delivery.
- Produce clear, proportionate management information on demand, capacity, assurance, delivery progress, risks, decisions, outcomes, finance and operational planning.
- Maintain and improve Enterprise Design risk registers, supporting effective escalation, ownership and follow-through of risks, issues and actions.
- Improve ways of working across Enterprise Design by reducing manual administration, clarifying processes and strengthening approaches to demand, governance, assurance and reporting.
- Support the maintenance of Enterprise Design knowledge and communication channels, including MetNet (intranet) content, case studies and relevant standards or best-practice material.
- Build effective working relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping them understand how and when Enterprise Design should be engaged.
In this role, success will mean:
- Enterprise Design demand is visible, consistently triaged and prioritised against agreed outcomes, capacity, risk and delivery commitments.
- Leaders and stakeholders have a reliable view of work in progress, dependencies, assurance activity, decisions, risks and next steps.
- Governance and assurance activity is well coordinated, with clear actions, decisions, escalations and specialist input at the right stage.
- Stakeholders understand how to engage Enterprise Design and have confidence in the transparency, pace and control of work.]
- Enterprise Design ways of working, reporting and knowledge channels are continuously improved to reduce duplication and support better outcomes.
Person specification
Essential Criteria, skills and experience:
- (Live and Breathe it) Delivering work in complex organisational environments with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and interdependencies, managing demand, priorities, forecasting, budgeting or resource allocation
- (We're Better Together) Coordinating delivery across cross-functional or multidisciplinary teams, bringing structure and visibility to delivery through effective planning, prioritisation, sequencing and progress tracking.
- (We're Experts by Nature) Applying Agile, Lean or iterative delivery approaches in a practical and proportionate way, helping us improve our ways of working
- (Live and Breathe it) Maintaining delivery momentum by managing risks, issues, blockers, dependencies, actions and decisions.
- (We're Experts by Nature) Using data, reporting and management information to provide insight, track performance, identify trends and support prioritisation, governance and decision-making.
- (We're Better Together) Communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including facilitating discussions and using your influencing skills to manage differing perspective to achieve consensus
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £43,081, Met Office contributes £12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.
As our Delivery Manager, your total reward package will be up to £60,268 annually, which includes:
- £43,081 base pay
- An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £5,300 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2026 until March 2027 in your monthly pay
- Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
How to apply
If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.
Closing date 02/08/2026 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 10/08/2026. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.
Using AI in your application
We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.
How we can help
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.
If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Medical
Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
- Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact us at: careers@metoffice.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: info@csc.gov.ukhttps://careers.metoffice.gov.uk/key-roles-met-office/technology
Salary range
- £43,081 - £46,728 per year