Lead Product Manager at Department for Education, Bristol/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

The Funding Service is the whole end-to-end system for delivering education funding to providers. This year, the service will play a role in delivering £76bn to 25,000 providers across the education and skills sectors.

As a Lead Product Manager your main responsibilities will be:

• Create a Service roadmap detailing how we will deliver on the 3-year strategy
• Support the 3 senior PM's to create product roadmaps and value propositions
• Help create and embed a process for reviewing and prioritizing work
• Help create a mechanism for continually assessing value#

Essential:

• Expertise and leadership - you will be an expert in the field of product management which you will use to bring people with you
• Agile working: you have deep knowledge and experience of how to apply agile methodologies to deliver impactful outcomes, iterating and improving process
• Life cycle perspective - you have successfully lead teams through the full product lifecycle. You identify which tools and techniques should be used; identify and deal with potential risks across all phases of the lifecycle
• User focus - You are experienced in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. You can bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure these are met by the business

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DFE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

DE&I Commitment

DFE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant / commitment

DFE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.