Senior Digital Delivery Manager

Agile and Lean Practices (Expert)

You can:

• coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean good practices
• create and tailor the right approach for a team, challenging, evaluating and iterating the approach through the life cycle
• experiment with new and innovative ways of working to improve delivery across the organisation
• act as a recognised expert and advocate for Agile and Lean approaches

Life Cycle Management (Practitioner)

You can:

• work and consult with the right people at the right time to move through the life cycle and deliver value
• use evidence to decide when a team should continue, change direction or stop
• identify tools and techniques required at different phases of the life cycle
• guide colleagues and stakeholders through different phases of the life cycle

Maintaining Delivery Momentum (Expert)

You can:

• Optimise the delivery flow of teams.
• Actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
• Identify innovative ways to unblock issues.

Planning (Expert)

You can:

• Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment.
• Plan beyond product delivery.
• Identify dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.
• Coach other teams as the central point of expertise.

Team Dynamics and Resolution (Practitioner)

You can:

• Identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them.
• Identify issues through Agile health-checks with the team and provoke the right responses.
• Engage in varying types of feedback choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision sticks.
• Accelerate the team development cycle.

Security Clearance

For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.

At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:

• Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
• Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
• Security Services records

Please note: We will reach out to you once the advert has closed to confirm eligibility for this role, this will be via an e-mail. Please check you e-mails.

Visa Sponsorship

ONS may be able to provide visa sponsorship where the role meets ONS sponsorship criteria and all relevant Home Office requirements. Applicants must hold, or be eligible to obtain, the right to work in the UK before employment commences.

To work at the ONS, candidates must meet both UK right to work and security clearance requirements (where applicable).

If you are unsure whether you meet the appropriate right to work or security clearance eligibility criteria, please refer to the guidance on or contact the recruitment email provided in the advert before applying. Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected and employment offers being withdrawn.

Application Process

Number of Stages: 2

Stage 1: Application

Stage 2: Interview

Stage 1 – Application

The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, CV, skills, experience, and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role.

A personal statement is required at application stage, the maximum word count allowed is 1,250 words, which should not be exceeded. You should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

In instances where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted, and candidates will be invited to interview based on merit order, i.e., those with the highest scores.

Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.

When a high volume of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted. Candidates will be invited to interview based on their merit order, with those achieving the highest scores being prioritised. Applicants who score below the adjusted pass mark but still pass will be placed on hold and may be invited to interview at a later date.

We often have similar roles available at different grades. If a candidate is suitable for a similar role or a lower grade than they have applied for, we may offer the candidate that role without the need to go through a further selection process providing the role has the same behaviours, and essential skills.

Stage 2 – Interview

Interviews will be in person in our Newport and Titchfield offices.

Titchfield: Segensworth Road, Titchfield, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5RR
Newport: Office For National Statistics, Government Buildings, Cardiff Road,
Newport, NP10 8XG

If invited to interview, you will be assessed using techniques aligned with the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all behaviours listed in the job advert and any required technical skills.

You will be required to provide a 10 minute presentation at interview. The presentation topic will be emailed to candidates who have passed the initial online application stage, 1 week prior to interview. This presentation will assess candidates against the Behaviour Communicating and Influencing.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Important Dates

• Eligibility checks from 11/11/2026 - 17/11/2026. Please be aware we will be sending all candidates an e-mail to complete a eligibility form.
• Sift will be conducted from 18/11/2026
• Interviews will be conducted from 30/11/2026

For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.

Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.

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