Technical Strategy Delivery Specialist

Technical Strategy Delivery Specialist (5504)

Salary: up to £70,000 dependent upon experience

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent

Security Level: CTC

Location: Gatwick / Hybrid

Visa Restrictions: This position does not currently offer visa sponsorship

Closing Date: 29 November 26

Interview Date:  WC 7 December via Teams. If 2nd interviews are required, these will be in person.

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

The Role

The Technical Strategy Portfolio Team within Future Safety and Innovation is responsible for developing the regulatory strategy to enable the safe and efficient integration of new technologies into UK airspace, leading programmes such as Advanced Air Mobility, Artificial Intelligence and the UK Hydrogen Challenge.

The team works with colleagues across the CAA to establish how best to safely enable new technology and put in place the plans and strategies to deliver. We work on the cutting edge of aviation regulation – exciting, important and fast-paced work.

Within this team, this Delivery Specialist role is responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of the CAA’s eVTOL programme, with an ambition to have the regulatory framework in place to enable safe commercial eVTOL operations by end-2028.

You will work closely with the Technical Strategy Lead, as well as other policy/technical specialists across CAA, to bring project management discipline to the programme to achieve this ambition – ensuring programme milestones are clear and delivered to time, quality and cost requirements.

You will be providing effective planning, project governance, risk, issue and dependency management, adapting project management tools to best meet the needs of projects and stakeholders.

The team adopts a light-touch Agile approach, and you will be responsible for establishing and coordinating fortnightly sprints to ensure focus on priorities. You will be an active and engaged member of the team, collaborating with stakeholders across CAA to implement delivery structures and proactively mitigate delivery risks, with a focus on using project delivery rigor to enable the delivery of key strategic outcomes.

As and when needed, you will support other programmes across the Technical Strategy team.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive and coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of the eVTOL Programme
• Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget
• Developing project, workstream and deliverable scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Arrange and lead major project milestone meetings
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Developing project plans to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with internal teams and external aviation stakeholders
• Work with teams to perform risk management to proactively identify, mitigate and minimise project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Manage project budget to ensure sufficient funding across the entire project period

About You

Essential:

• Confidence using and adapting a project management toolkit to support project delivery, including plans, RAIDs, reporting, governance, and resources.
• Experienced and capable of managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including facilitating key project governance meetings – internally and externally
• Experience of working in change programmes and project portfolio environments
• Experience with formal project management methods, such as Prince2 and Agile
• Collaborates as part of a team, demonstrating a desire to act and is focused on delivering results.
• Confident to articulate and lead where key decisions must be made and delivered.
• Able to collaborate and negotiate with authority with all levels of stakeholders
• Able to manage challenging and multiple areas of work and confidently able to resolve challenges.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of the Aviation Industry and business of the CAA and the environment in which it operates
• Some procurement experience

Additional Information

For many appointments within the CAA, these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected information. For these roles the post holders must undergo National Security Vetting and achieve the appropriate level of clearance. To be vetted we will usually expect a reasonable period of residency in the UK so that meaningful checks can be undertaken. For this role this will need to be 3 years. For more information on CTC and SC clearance please visit - Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you do not meet these requirements, we may not be able to accept your application.

The CAA is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct. To help ensure transparency and protect the independence and reputation of the CAA, candidates invited to interview will be required to complete a Declaration of Interests form, disclosing any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could influence, or be seen to influence, their ability to perform the role objectively and impartially.

Relocation & Property
The CAA will be relocating from Aviation House (Our Gatwick Office) to new premises in a few years’ time. Our move is driven by strategic, operational and environmental considerations. We will be moving to a new local home, up to a 15-mile radius of Aviation House, to minimise disruption for our valued colleagues and customers. We are now working with colleagues and visitors to understand what we need in our new office, before we start our property search. We will sell Aviation House and land, vacate the site and move to new premises, but we do not expect to move before 2028

Inclusive Recruitment

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, candidates who meet the minimum requirements will be guaranteed an interview. Find out more about the Disability Confident Scheme. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Use of Artificial Intelligence by candidates in the CAA recruitment process

We recognise that many of our candidates find Artificial Intelligence to be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements 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, as your own) applications may be rejected on that basis.

Working With Us

Explore What We Offer section on our careers website to find out about our benefits and how we support work-life balance.

Our Values
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Closing Date: 29 November 26

Interview Date: WC 7 December via Teams. If 2nd interviews are required, these will be in person.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

No recruitment agencies please.