Delivery Manager

Individual Applications Only - No Recruiters

PreviousNext is Australia's only Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner, delivering complex digital platforms for prominent government, higher education, and enterprise clients.

We provide full digital lifecycle services including user-centred design, custom development, systems integration, maintenance, support, and scalable hosting on Australian-based infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Project discovery and definition of requirements as user stories

• Preparation of project backlogs and facilitating estimations

• Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives

• Tracking delivery health using flow metrics alongside agile ceremonies

• Project budget management and financial reporting

• Documenting and tracking project issues and actions including follow-up and status reporting

• Coordination and participation in project meetings including team meetings and stakeholder workshops

• Facilitating team communication

• Client relationship management

• Training and mentoring of client Product Owners and project team members in agile best practices

• Ongoing management of post launch support and maintenance

• New business pitching, project scoping and quoting for existing and new clients

• Using AI tools to work more efficiently in your own role, and encouraging sensible AI use within your team
  

Skills

• Proven experience in delivering technology projects and products using agile ways of working as required

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

• Prior government or higher education experience preferred (but not essential)

• Familiarity with government digital delivery standards is a plus (but not essential)

• Working knowledge of flow-based delivery metrics and the ability to use them alongside agile ceremonies preferred (but not essential)

• Superior leadership skills and the ability to drive a project team to deliver within estimates and deadlines

• Comfortable using AI tools to speed up reporting, estimation and documentation

• Australian citizenship, and eligibility to obtain a Baseline security clearance, may be required for some government engagements.
  

Location

PreviousNext is a fully distributed team, with staff working from home and other offices right across Australia.

We will only consider applicants located in Australia and available during Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00) business hours when necessary.

Benefits

PreviousNext is a mature, independent company that's been running for over 17 years since early 2009. Our team is very experienced, averaging 16 years of Drupal experience and 9 years of tenure at PreviousNext. This results in a stable and profitable company that can invest in our staff's professional development and ensures a strong focus on work life balance. This includes some of the following benefits:

• Staff have a high degree of autonomy to self manage their output by defining their working hours and office location. This may include starting late after dropping the kids at school, working a proportion or all of your time from your home office, or working extra hours one week to take a long weekend the next.

• You're working alongside seasoned professionals willing to share their experience and collaborate on providing the best possible solutions for our clients.

• Many of our staff are already parents or are planning their own families, so we have comprehensive approaches for parental leave and flexibility around structuring roles to accommodate individual family circumstances.

• All staff are eligible to participate in our employee ownership program - 40% of company equity has been granted so far, with a goal of 100% by 2032.

• Staff with more than 5 years tenure are eligible for a month of Early Long Service Leave.

• Up to 5% on top of your salary can be budgeted for professional training and conference attendance, and we have a very active program to encourage staff to talk at conferences themselves.

• Up to 20% of your paid hours can be directed to open source code contribution or other community related activities.

• All staff receive are eligible for an allowance to buy their own equipment under a salary sacrifice model. This means that everyone works on their preferred computer spec, and can deck out their home offices with great furniture and accessories.

• Salary commensurate with experience.