Job description
Are you interested in leading the assured delivery of transformational pension projects, balancing innovation, governance and high‑performing teams?
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. Our principal role is to administer the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers’, Police and Fire-fighters’ pension schemes in Scotland.
The Delivery Manager will have responsibility and accountability for delivery of legislative events and business transformational changes in the SPPA and be the point of decision making before escalating into the Business Transformation Senior Leadership Team.
This role will have specific responsibility for delivery of legislative remedy projects, operating under fixed deadlines, retrospective data correction, and heightened assurance, audit and stakeholder scrutiny.
Responsibilities
- Plan and manage delivery of SPPA transformational projects or annual event activity
- Foster a culture of experimentation and resilience in our existing services supplied by our pension administration system provider taking account of digital enhancements and capabilities and ensuring that effective project management and controls are maintained.
- Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off.
- Ensure delivery assurance, governance and audit readiness - Own delivery assurance activities, RAID management, MI reporting and audit readiness to provide confidence to senior stakeholders.
- Maintain delivery momentum and flow - Manage pace, prioritisation, dependencies, exceptions and rework cycles, addressing blockers and risks proactively.
- Build and enable high performing teams - Form, motivate and empower teams; develop technical and non technical capability; and create environments that support collaboration and effective delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement and adaptive delivery - Apply Agile, Lean and hybrid approaches pragmatically; challenge inefficient processes; embed learning; and guide teams through process and lifecycle transitions.
About us
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. Our principal role is to administer the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers’, Police and Fire-fighters’ pension schemes in Scotland for over 640,000 key workers. The Agency administers these public service pension schemes on behalf of Scottish Ministers with an annual pension spend to over 200,000 pensioners to the value of more than £3.7 billion.
Our staff are part of the UK Civil Service , observing the Civil Service Code and working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer .
As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules .
You can also find out more about careers at the SPPA here - SPPA Careers | SPPA (pensions.gov.scot)
Working pattern
Our standard hours are 35 hours per week. We offer a range of flexible and hybrid working options, with two days minimum working on site at SPPA. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.
Security checks
Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).
You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website , or read about the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide .
Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK
Equality statement
We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.
Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.
Further information
Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website .
Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes.
We will hold a reserve list for this post for 12 months.
Qualifications
You should have a recognised project management qualification.
Success profile
Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.
Technical / Professional Skills:
- Communicating between technical and non technical - Practitioner.
- Maintaining delivery momentum - Practitioner
You can find out more about the skills required, here: Delivery manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Experience:
Lead Criteria: Demonstrable experience of leading and delivering complex, time‑critical transformation or legislative change projects, including managing end‑to‑end delivery, audit/assurance requirements, and stakeholder scrutiny to achieve defined outcomes.
Behaviours:
- Changing and Improving - Level 3
- Making effective decisions - Level 3
Find out more about Success Profiles
How to apply
Apply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 1,000 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills, experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.
Stage one (CV review):
An initial review will be conducted using the CV and Supporting Statement on the Experience Lead Criteria as listed above.
Candidates who pass the initial review will have their applications fully assessed against all remaining criteria in the Success Profile, including the Behaviours detailed above.
Stage two (interview and assessment): If successful at application review, you will be invited for assessment, which will consist of an interview and job simulation exercise, where we will test all criteria listed above.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.
If invited for further assessment, this will consist of an interview and presentation.
Sifting will commence from w/c 22nd June 2026. .
Assessments are scheduled for w/c 29th June 2026 however this may be subject to change.
Recruitment Principles
As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases.
