Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit a Product Owners for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of c.£/day (inside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will initially be remote based.Responsibilities:
Working with a Service Manager, Product Owners will be responsible for bringing together and managing a multi-disciplinary team, which includes specialist resources from policy development, analysts, user research and service design, technical staff, specialist advisors and others; managing their work within an agile project delivery framework.
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of a particular product including supporting technologies and processes.
Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop and deliver a specific product and integration requirements. These users will include applicants and recipients of advice and financial support; partner organisations, and administrative staff.
Define and obtain stakeholder buy-in for your product and the approach to delivery.
Create effective, prioritised product descriptions and delivery plans to meet user needs in a cost effective way.
Interpret user research in order to make the correct product decisions ensuring they reflect user needs.
Understand the relationship between your specific products and the overall delivery of the organisation, and its wider systems and processes, reflecting this within your area.
Write options appraisals, business cases and provide information that enable the programme to choose appropriate delivery options and/or procure technology and services.
Communicate credibly with a wide range of stakeholders, within the organisation and Partner organisations.
Coordinate and prioritise requirements, development and delivery of the integration between the Agency case management platform, document repository and the platform.
Essential Skills:
Experienced Product Owner.
Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and teams in, IT providers and partner organisations to deliver services and systems, with the aim of providing better results for citizens
Ability to bring together views and perspectives of a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including commercial and procurement specialists to provide a strong evidence base and documentation for decisions.
Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team and set priorities for yourself and others in a project and/or programme, using established, recognised best practice project methodologies and using agile development methods.
Ability to enable decision-making at the right level within your teams, removing unnecessary bureaucracy and facilitating delivery.
It would be advantageous for candidates to already be in possession of a Basic Disclosure Scotland certificate dated within the last 12 months.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.