Head of ACE (Internal Only) - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Head of ACE (Internal Only) - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

About us:

​​The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world.

​Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

​Information Technology (IT) provides core IT infrastructure and application services in support of education, research and administration across the College on 5 main campuses based in central London.

​ ​Everything IT does is designed to support one or more of the three critical capabilities enabling the College to achieve its strategic objectives. These are

• Excellent student experience
• Excellence in research
• Efficient administration

About the role:

The Head of Agile Centre of Excellence (ACE) leads a team of Agile coaches and practitioners, driving the adoption and maturing of Agile best practice across the Organisation. The Head of ACE ensures the Organization is consistently applying use of Agile frameworks and methods, evangelising for the use of Agile across the organization, and continuing to develop and improve Agile capabilities through helping set strategic direction and providing thought leadership.

The Head of ACE, supported by the Guiding Coalition, leads stakeholder and wider business engagement and promotion of Agile practices. The Head of ACE will also lead the King’s wide Agile Community of Practice.

This is a full time post of 35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

2. Significant expertise in Agile methods and approaches

3. Presentation skills and the ability to communicate confidently

4. Experience leading or facilitating significant change to business technology using recognised frameworks and approaches, in conjunction with cross functional and multi-skilled teams.

5. Coaching capability – ability to support and inspire colleagues to follow recognized good practice

6. Ability to facilitate identification and management of priorities

Desirable criteria

1. Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tool and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows

2. Experience of managing projects

3. Ability to lead Agile Training courses

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.