Agile Portfolio Delivery Lead - Charity - DDaT

Supporting the CIO, the Agile Portfolio Delivery Lead will keep the new squad pilot moving, support its leaders and provide an honest view of progress, risks and decisions required.

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee delivery across a mixed portfolio of digital products, technology projects and operational services.
• Chair the weekly Demand Intake Review and fortnightly Digital Delivery Forum.
• Ensure demand is properly shaped, prioritised and translated into roadmaps, project plans and squad backlogs.
• Support Squad Leads with sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives and backlog management.
• Connect business priorities with technical delivery capacity across applications, data, infrastructure and cyber security.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, resource constraints and unclear ownership.
• Challenge initiatives that lack clear outcomes, requirements, technical input or realistic delivery plans.
• Help teams balance planned projects and product improvements with incidents, support and technical debt.
• Ensure consistent use of HALO, Aha! and Azure DevOps.
• Provide the CIO with clear monthly reporting on progress, portfolio health and decisions required.
• Capture lessons from the pilot and recommend what should continue, change or stop.

This is an enabling and oversight role. It does not own budgets, line-manage staff or undertake hands-on technical delivery.