IT Agile Coach | Project Manager | Contract | London.

Contract Role: IT Agile Coach / Project Manager
Contract Location: London 4-5 days onsite each week
Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35)
Contract duration: End of 2026

Job
Description:

The IT Agile
Coach / Project Manager is a senior delivery professional responsible for
improving organisational agility and supporting strategic delivery. The role is
approximately 70% Agile coaching and 30% project management, focused on helping
leaders, Product Owners and delivery teams adopt Lean-Agile practices that
improve collaboration, value delivery and continuous improvement.

Within
Information & Digital Engineering (IDE), the role builds Agile capability
while providing project management support to deliver outcomes with appropriate
governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.

Key
Accountabilities

• Agile Coaching
  and Capability Building
• Coach leaders,
  Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams in Lean-Agile practices.
  
• Assess ways of
  working and identify improvement opportunities.
  
• Build
  capability through mentoring, facilitation, training and communities of
  practice.
  
• Promote
  servant leadership, transparency, accountability and continuous improvement.
  
• Support
  leaders in enabling Agile ways of working.

• Facilitate
  planning, retrospectives, dependency workshops and multi-team events.
  
• Improve
  prioritisation, backlog quality and outcome-focused delivery.
  
• Identify and
  address impediments, risks and dependencies.
  
• Use delivery
  metrics to support continuous improvement.
  
• Partner with
  product, engineering, architecture and business stakeholders to align delivery
  with business goals.
  

Project
Delivery and Governance

• Lead projects
  and delivery initiatives through the appropriate lifecycle.
  
• Manage scope,
  schedule, budget, risks, quality and benefits.
  
• Establish
  effective governance and reporting.
  
• Ensure
  compliance with delivery and assurance standards.
  
• Communicate
  progress, risks, decisions and actions clearly.
  

Leadership and
Community Contribution

• Act as a
  trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
  
• Influence and
  challenge constructively using evidence and judgement.
  
• Support
  high-performing teams through coaching and collaboration.
  
• Contribute to
  Agile and Delivery Management communities of practice.
  
• Mentor Agile
  practitioners and project managers.
  

Expected
Outcomes

• Successful
  delivery of agreed project objectives, effective governance and financial
  control, transparent reporting, proactive risk management, successful business
  transition and adoption, and a collaborative, high-performing delivery team.|
  Project Scoping & Budgeting,
• Project Risk Assessment & Management,
  Project Planning & Tracking