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

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

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.
  

Team and Delivery Effectiveness

• 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