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Job summary

UKEF Digital Data and Technology Group provides expertise in the following areas:

• Digital Delivery – Providing expertise in digital delivery. The Digital delivery team lead multi-disciplined teams to build digital services for UKEF. This role sits within the digital delivery team.
• Product management - Providing expertise in product management. The product management team lead on ensuring digital services meet the needs of UKEF and end users and deliver the required outcomes.
• User Centred Design – Providing expertise in user research, business analysis, user experience design and service design.
• Data and analytics – Providing expertise in data management and data usage within UKEF.
• Technology – Providing development and technical expertise to build new digital services and manage the digital estate for UKEF.

Job description

About the role

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Lead Delivery Manager who can actively participate and contribute to the Department’s growing digital capability.

• represent and champion the role within your department, across government and in industry
• lead the community of practice for this role and build capability and excellence (in an Agile, Lean practice)
• be responsible for the recruitment of the right people to the right teams
• support professional development and continuous improvement of your community
• work with other heads of roles to promote effective cross-functional delivery
• be a skilled team leader who can confidently communicate the value of the role to digital and non-digital stakeholders
• be credible and influential across departments

Main activities

As a Grade 7 Senior Digital Delivery Manager, you will:

• Apply experience of using agile tools and techniques to deliver UKEF’s Digital services that align to the digital service standard, technology code of practice and Secure By Design principles. You may work across several products at once.
• Will manage a digital service or services through discovery, alpha, beta and live states and oversea delivery management of our digital services. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong experience in iterative, user-centred delivery environments rather than traditional phase-gated product delivery.
• Build and maintain multiple digital product or service teams or squads, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well in complex, transactional and regulatory areas.
• Work with the Head of Digital Delivery to lead a team through the different phases of the delivery lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live).
• Work closely with stakeholders, users, technical, policy and operational experts to contribute towards, and deliver, the service vision. You’ll understand the big picture of implementing policy goals
• Communicate progress clearly with stakeholders at all levels across UKEF
• Coach and mentor both team members and others to help them apply the most appropriate agile tools and techniques
• Set the pace of delivery across services, managing dependencies to minimise disruptions, focusing the team on what is most important
• Ensure teams have the right working environment and the tools they need to deliver value based on what users need
• Actively lead in the delivery manager community – learning, sharing knowledge and bringing in good practice
• Work to create a diverse, inclusive, supportive culture that stimulates innovation and enables high-performing teams to build and sustain high quality products
• Work within the UKEF Project Management Governance Framework for elements of the service that are in 'Project mode', including monthly highlight reporting, financial reporting and checkpoint signoffs
• Operate and iterating live digital services within a service team that may be supporting more than one live digital service.
• Use your experience in delivering complex, transactional digital services to help set delivery standards and principles.
• Oversee the delivery of the team with delivery metrics (e.g. burn rate, ticket quality, pink points in services development lifecycle, etc)
• Inform team workloads, set expectations of delivery timescales and tracking delivery, inform the unblocking of issues etc.
• You can act as the escalation point for operational issues and can fix complex operational issues.

Person specification

UK Export Finance is looking for motivated individuals with a desire to learn about the business. Successful candidates will be provided not only with functional training to enable them to do well in their role, but also with personal development to help them to achieve their career ambitions. Please note that the person specification below outlines at which stage(s) you will be assessed on how you meet the criteria for the role(s) including:-

A = assessed at application stage I = assessed at interview stage T = assessed by test stage = assessed at presentation stage

Essential

Qualifications

• Education to degree standard or equivalent demonstrable experience. (A)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Agile project methodology. (A, I)
• Knowledge of Scrum and Kanban. (A, I)
• Knowledge of the GOV.UK Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice. (A, I, P)

Skills/Ability

You can:

• Coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean good practices. (A, I, P)
• Comfortable challenging inappropriate delivery approaches with limited scope to ensure the wider problem is solved. (A, I, P)
• Act as a recognised expert and advocate for Agile and Lean approaches. (A, I, P)
• Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. (A)
• Mediate between people and strengthen relationships, adopting the appropriate communication method with stakeholders at all levels. (A, I, P)
• Negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments. (A, I, P)
• Work and consult with the right people at the right time to move through the life cycle and deliver value. (A, I, P)
• Optimise the delivery flow of teams. (A, I, P)
• Identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. (A, I)
• Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. (A, I, P)
• Use metrics (e.g. burndown) to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. (A, I, P)
• Matrix management of multidisciplined delivery teams. (A, I, P)

Experience

• Experience of managing teams to deliver outcomes. (A, I, P)
• Experience managing suppliers and contractors. (A, I)
• Experience of running a team in Scrum and Kanban. (A, I)
• Experience delivering outcomes in iterative, user-centred environments with changing requirements and uncertain scope. (A, I)
• Experience breaking down large initiatives into incremental deliverables. (A, I)
• Experience of leading delivery teams that act on user research insights and data. (A, I)
• Experience of delivering complex, transactional digital services. (A, I)
• Experience of delivering digital services against the GOV.UK Service Standard. (A, I)

Qualifications

Education to degree standard or equivalent demonstrable experience. (A)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Presentation - a topic agreed by UKEF and will be shared with relevant candidates.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £61,250, UK Export Finance contributes £17,744 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).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

We are assessing candidates using Success Profiles and/or Line Management Standards (see Appendix 1) and across the whole process we will assess your Experience, Ability, Technical and Behaviours and Line Manager Standards as highlighted below.

The application must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Please ensure that you read through the Candidate Information Pack attached to this advert, before applying.

All applications will be sifted against our essential criteria outlined in the personal specification. In addition to this, applicants will also be asked to complete an on-line ability test, this must also be completed prior to the deadline for your application.

• Qualification: Education to degree standard or equivalent demonstrable experience. (A)
• On-line ability test: Civil Service Judgement Test - to be completed by 12:00 midday on Thursday 6 August 2026
• Statement of suitability: you should fully articulate in 750 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack.

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

1. Experience: Application and Statement of Suitability
2. Ability:Civil Service Judgement Test- After the test deadline, we will look at the number of applicants received and all applicant scores to determine what the job’s pass mark will be - to be completed by 12:00 midday on Thursday 6 August 2026

In the event of a large response the following essential criteria will be se for an initial sift, with successful applicants going forward to the full sift:

• Civil Service Judgement Test - After the test deadline, we will look at the number of applicants received and all applicant scores to determine what the job’s pass mark will be - to be completed by 12:00 midday on Thursday 6 August 2026
• Experience of delivering complex, transactional digital services. (A, I)
• Experience of delivering digital services against the GOV.UK Service Standard. (A, I, P)

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview, via MS Teams; this will include the following assessment:

1. Behaviours / Experience / Line Management Standards - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all three behaviours highlighted in Appendix 1.
2. Technical - you will be assessed across your technical expertise and acumen, in relation to the essential criteria:
   1. Presentation - a topic agreed by UKEF and will be shared with relevant candidates.

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

Timetable

Please note that the interview dates are indicative.

Test deadline

12:00pm on Thursday August 2026

Closing date for applications

23:55 on Sunday 9 August 2026

Notification of outcome of application

w/c 10 August 2026

Interviews via MS Teams

w/c 24 August 2026

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment Team
• Email : Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Further information

Should you have a complaint or wish to raise any concerns regarding the recruitment process, please e-mail your complaint to the Head of Pay and Resourcing (UKEF) at Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk and include “Complaint” in the subject heading. Should you remain dissatisfied following UKEF’s investigation then you can refer your complaint to the Commission - http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint.

Attachments

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