Digital Delivery Manager at Ministry of Defence, Northwood/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Join a high-profile MOD digital programme in the discovery phase, shaping new capabilities within a secure national security environment.

The Digital Delivery Manager is responsible for leading the successful delivery of digital projects to meet the needs of End Users who interact with the Programme team. The role ensures that digital solutions are delivered in accordance with programme objectives, security requirements, governance frameworks, and End User needs.

Working across multidisciplinary teams, the Digital Delivery Manager will coordinate resources, manage risks and dependencies, engage stakeholders, and drive delivery performance while maintaining compliance with defence, cyber security, and regulatory standards.

As a Digital Delivery Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of digital projects and services.
• Work with End-Users and Stakeholders to develop and maintain delivery plans, schedules, milestones, and reporting.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure delivery aligns with strategic objectives and operational requirements.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with military, government, commercial, and technical stakeholders.
• Act as the primary point of contact for delivery-related activities.

Programme Governance

• Ensure compliance with organisational governance frameworks.
• Prepare and present status reports, risk registers, and delivery dashboards.

Digital and Technical Delivery

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including: software, infrastructure, security specialists, business analysis, architecture, testing, and service management.

Risk and Dependency Management

• Identify and mitigate delivery risks.

Essential:

• Proven experience delivering complex digital or technology programmes.
• Strong project and delivery management skills.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment.

DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Desirable - Defence Sector Knowledge:

• Experience working within defence, government, national security, aerospace, or highly regulated environments.
• Understanding of defence governance and assurance processes.
• Familiarity with secure environments and classified information handling.

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, the MOD 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

The MOD 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.