AI Delivery and Oversight Lead

Location: Birmingham, Leeds, London (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: National Minimum Salary: £57,515; London Minimum Salary: £62,034

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Join our Advanced Analytics Division (AAD) – a dynamic, multidisciplinary team driving innovation at the heart of the Department for Transport. We combine expertise from GORS, GSS, GSE, and DDaT professions across London, Hastings, Leeds, and Birmingham to tackle the most complex challenges. Using cutting-edge techniques, including AI, machine learning, modelling, and Digital Twins, we deliver impactful solutions to high-profile problems. Our vision? To make DfT a leader in AI, shaping the future of transport and data science nationwide. Be part of something transformative!

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop a structured programme management framework tailored to the AI Programme’s goals, including milestones, timelines, and progress indicators.
  
  
• Monitor and report the team’s progress across individual projects and longer-term pieces of work measuring them against deliverables, identifying risks and implementing measures to address them proactively.
  
  
• Ensuring that projects within the programme pass through the appropriate Governance and Assurance steps within the Department and GDS.
  
  Benefits
  
  Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:
  
  
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
  
  
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
  
  
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
  
  
• Access to the staff discount portal.
  
  
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
  
  
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
  
  
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
  
  
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
  
  About you
  
  To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
  
  
• Strong expertise in programme, project and delivery management methodologies, including risk, benefits and performance monitoring. Including, experience of applying Agile and/or Lean delivery methodologies.
  
  
• The ability to bring these techniques in a flexible manner to a portfolio of disparate projects.
  
  
• Successful management of digital products (ideally with AI components) through the different stages of the product life-cycle. Identification of innovative ways to manage and unblock issues.
  
  
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
  
  
• Excellent organisational skills with evidence of them being applied to support a diverse portfolio of work.
  
  📅 Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 27th January 2026