Agile Coach at Ministry of Justice, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

This role sits within the Digital Infrastructure and Security Operations (DISO) team, where you 'll play a key role in driving one of our most significant organisational transformations.

We 're implementing new agile, product-led ways of working across the Tech Services directorate, with the ambition of becoming a truly product-centred organisation. As part of this transformation, you 'll help shape and embed our Product Operating Model, supporting teams to adopt consistent product practices, improve collaboration, and deliver better outcomes for users.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence how products are delivered at scale, working with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders to embed lasting cultural and organisational change across the directorate.

As an Agile Coach, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Coach multidisciplinary teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers and leaders to adopt and embed agile principles, practices and mindsets.
• Implement Kanban, flow based delivery and lean practices to improve delivery predictability, reduce bottlenecks and optimise value delivery across teams and service areas.
• Identify systemic challenges and implement improvements that increase productivity, remove constraints and improve team performance.
• Align teams, backlogs and delivery activities to strategic outcomes, ensuring work is prioritised and coordinated across multiple teams and service areas.
• Define meaningful Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), delivery metrics and performance measures that enable data driven decision making and demonstrate progress against organisational outcomes.
• Recommend, design and implement standardised agile delivery approaches that can be consistently adopted across multiple teams and business areas.
• Support the implementation of the Product Operating Model and product led ways of working across the Tech Services directorate.

Essential:

• Proven experience developing and embedding consistent, scalable agile delivery practices across an organisation.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and support stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders.
• Experience developing product and delivery roadmaps that balance short term delivery priorities with long term strategic objectives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working within large, complex organisations undergoing organisational or digital transformation.
• Experience supporting the implementation of Product Operating Models and product led ways of working.
• Experience coaching organisations through large scale agile transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of modern product management, lean portfolio management and value stream thinking.

Desirable:

• Experience working alongside Product Managers, Delivery Managers and multidisciplinary digital teams within a Government Digital and Data (GDD) environment.

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, MOJ 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 Ministry of Justice 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.