Software delivery manager · Project portfolio and resource planning manager · Organisational learning and development facilitator
YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
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Three evidence-based routes back to work: delivery leadership, portfolio operations and workplace learning
Your evidence gives you three grounded directions to explore after your break. You changed refinement and trade-off practices, and sprint completion rose from 50–60% to 85–100%; you also allocated 13 contract staff, handled project budgets and reporting, delivered team-development workshops and mentored young people. These experiences point most directly to software delivery leadership, with portfolio and resource planning as a broader operations route and workplace learning as a people-development move. Your £50,000 figure is a flexible full-time-equivalent target, not a stated minimum; some listed roles meet it, while others fall short or do not state pay. Check each role’s actual hours, office expectations, commute and scope before applying.
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London · £50,000 FTE (flexible) · Hybrid (flexible) · Travel: 60mins (flexible)
Improving team delivery flow · Coordinating priorities, trade-offs and distributed teams · Allocating people and managing project administration · Facilitating learning and development · Governance reporting and project controls
You have practical evidence of changing team processes in response to delivery problems.
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
Adjacent
Software delivery manager
This is the closest fit to your demonstrated work and measurable outcome, while shifting your emphasis toward owning delivery across teams and stakeholders.
Transferable
Project portfolio and resource planning manager
This route broadens your work beyond sprint delivery and makes practical use of both your resource-allocation experience and earlier project administration.
Exploratory
Organisational learning and development facilitator
This offers the clearest shift toward people development, grounded in actual workshop and mentoring experience rather than communication skills alone.
MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
Public service improvement consultant
Why explore: You improved team flow by changing readiness and trade-off practices, and sprint completion rose to 85–100%. You have also worked to the GDS Service Standard, giving you a reason to test public-service improvement work.
What's new: The work may involve service mapping and user research, which you have not described; test whether your delivery-improvement experience transfers to those tasks.
Try this: Ask a public-service improvement practitioner to walk you through a recent project and its day-to-day tasks.
Salary check: Compare London entry-level or transition roles with your £50,000 full-time-equivalent starting point.
Check first: Direct service redesign and user research are not evidenced.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Youth employability programme coordinator
Why explore: You have mentored 16–18-year-olds since 2022 and handled project coordination and steering-group reporting. Together these give you a basis to investigate programme work in an education or social-impact setting.
What's new: You would be coordinating a programme for young people, with possible safeguarding and outcome-tracking responsibilities not described in your experience.
Try this: Speak with a youth employability programme coordinator about their weekly work and which responsibilities require prior experience.
Salary check: Check realistic London coordinator entry pay against your £50,000 full-time-equivalent starting point.
Check first: Programme operations, safeguarding duties and outcome reporting are not established.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Contract management specialist
Why explore: You handled contractor extensions and purchase orders, and reallocated 13 contract engineers and QAs across two teams. These facts support testing a commercial-operations route, but not assuming specialist contract expertise.
What's new: Specialist work may add contract interpretation, supplier performance and commercial controls, which are not demonstrated in your experience.
Try this: Ask a contract manager to compare routine contractor administration with the specialist decisions in their role.
Salary check: Compare realistic transition-role pay in London with your £50,000 full-time-equivalent starting point.
Check first: Negotiation, supplier management and procurement governance are not evidenced.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your experience is broader than your job title suggests.
You have practical evidence of changing team processes in response to delivery problems. You can point to a measurable delivery outcome associated with your changes. You have direct experience making resource-allocation decisions.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
Compare pay with the figure you supplied
You supplied £50,000 as full-time-equivalent pay. You described this figure as flexible. Compare starting pay, contracted hours and any pro-rata or contract terms on a like-for-like basis; advertised ranges are not offers.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
delivery management · agile delivery · capacity planning · resource allocation · portfolio reporting · project governance · workshop facilitation · learning delivery
Professional services · Local government · Charities · Education · Regulated services · Service operations
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
We found 3 live opportunities across 3 of your supported directions. The opportunities are spread across your routes rather than concentrated in one area.
WORTH REFRESHING
Check the expected team, portfolio and stakeholder scope against your experience. Check the expected portfolio scale and project-controls methods, including which systems you would need to learn.
SAFE TO IGNORE
Your previous job title does not define the full range of work you can target.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
Use the specific experience and transfer explanations in your selected directions to compare the duties. A vacancy being open does not establish that its pay, hours or entry requirements suit you.
Resolve this practical fit question before committing: Confirm weekly hours, office days and commute for each role before applying.
SALARY
You supplied £50,000 as full-time-equivalent pay. You described this figure as flexible. Compare starting pay, contracted hours and any pro-rata or contract terms on a like-for-like basis; advertised ranges are not offers.
DEMAND
8 selected listings provide examples to investigate. Availability is labelled on each card; this sample does not establish wider demand or a complete practical match.
COMPETITION
Make your relevant evidence visible: Improving team delivery flow; Coordinating priorities, trade-offs and distributed teams. Where a vacancy asks for direct experience, explain your own decisions and outcomes so the employer can assess the transfer beyond your job title.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Compare delivery and portfolio work, then test the learning route
Compare the UAL delivery role and Bulk portfolio role with your delivery-improvement, contractor-allocation and governance examples. Check seniority, actual hours, office attendance and contract terms. Then use one workshop you have delivered to test the L&D role’s design and evaluation requirements before deciding which route to pursue.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
Start with delivery leadership and portfolio/resource roles where your delivery improvement, contractor allocation and project reporting give you concrete examples. Explore workplace learning if you want a clearer shift toward people development, using your workshops and mentoring as evidence while checking the design and evaluation requirements. The selected-opportunity section distinguishes employer pages verified as open from listings that still need verification. Treat the more senior or lower-paid options as conditional alternatives, not guaranteed matches.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Verified live opportunity
Senior Delivery Manager
University of the Arts London
£61,694–£83,202 per annum
Permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week; flexible hybrid, 50% on-site at High Holborn and 50% home working
The London hybrid role combines delivery leadership, resource planning and portfolio coordination, overlapping with several demonstrated parts of your experience. Salary is above target, but senior scope and a fixed 35-hour week with half-time on-site are significant conditions to assess. Check before applying: Confirm the listing remains open before applying. Compare your experience with its required executive-level influence, team leadership and portfolio scope. Confirm the 35-hour schedule and commute to High Holborn.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Learning and Development Advisor (FTC)
Confidential charity/non-profit client, via Frazer Jones
£45,000–£50,000 per annum
London; weekly hours and workplace arrangement not stated on the listing; six-month fixed-term contract
The L&D role combines learning projects and delivery, making your workshops and mentoring relevant experience to test against its design and evaluation duties. Pay may be below your target and the design/evaluation remit is a stretch; useful if the employer accepts transferable facilitation experience and confirms suitable terms. Check before applying: Confirm the starting salary, weekly hours, workplace arrangements and commute. Check the required design, needs-analysis and evaluation experience. Confirm the listing remains open before applying.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Portfolio Manager (6-month FTC)
Bulk
Not stated
Hybrid, 3 days in the London office and 2 days from home; hours not stated
A portfolio role with explicit capacity planning and board reporting uses your resource-allocation and steering-reporting experience, and could broaden your work beyond software delivery. Six-month fixed-term role with no stated salary; useful if you are open to temporary work and the employer confirms acceptable pay. Check before applying: Confirm salary and weekly hours. Check the role’s required office days and commute. Compare your project governance experience with its board and PMO responsibilities.
View role →Listing to verify
Portfolio Analyst
King’s College London
£45,031–£48,607 per annum, including London Weighting
Hybrid, with 2 days per week on campus; hours not stated in the listing
Listing to verify. Portfolio analysis connects to your resource allocation and project reporting, and offers a more analytical route into portfolio operations. Salary is below your flexible FTE target; useful as a more analytical portfolio entry route if you decide the transition value is worth the pay difference. Check before applying: Confirm weekly hours, campus days and commute. Check required portfolio-data analysis and reporting tools. Consider the pay difference against your flexible target before applying.
View role →Listing to verify
Senior L&D Partner - Learning Experience and Early Careers (Maternity Cover)
Wilson James
£50,000–£55,000 plus benefits
Full-time, 12-month fixed-term maternity cover; workplace arrangement not confirmed
Listing to verify. The role combines learning activity, early-career development and stakeholder work, which connects to your workshops and ongoing mentoring. Senior partner scope and fixed-term cover are substantial compromises to check; worth exploring if you want a people-development move and can match the required level. Check before applying: Confirm the employer page still accepts applications and verify office arrangements. Check the required learning-design and early-careers experience. Confirm weekly hours and commute.
View role →Listing to verify
Learning & Culture Partner
Southern Housing
£48,000–£52,000 per annum
Permanent; hybrid; weekly hours not stated
Listing to verify. Its learning-and-culture remit could use your development workshops and mentoring while moving you into a people-development setting. The listing is unconfirmed and the role may require broader culture-partner experience; useful to investigate if the employer confirms it is open and the scope fits. Check before applying: Verify that the listing is open and confirm salary. Check weekly hours, hybrid days and commute. Compare required partner-level experience with your workshop and mentoring work.
View role →Listing to verify
Senior Delivery Manager (Ref: 23791)
HM Courts and Tribunals Service
London range £49,325–£53,081 per annum
Permanent, full-time; hybrid, expected in an HMCTS office three days per week; flexible working is also listed
Listing to verify. This London hybrid delivery role fits your agile delivery and resource-coordination background, with a salary range that overlaps your flexible FTE target. Senior scope and a three-day office expectation are material checks; useful if you can evidence portfolio-level leadership and the commute works. Check before applying: Verify current availability through the employer’s application page. Confirm starting salary, weekly hours and office attendance. Check required portfolio, workforce-planning and delivery-professional leadership experience.
View role →Listing to verify
Delivery Manager
Connect2Hackney
£500–£550 per day, umbrella
Temporary contract; hours and hybrid or on-site arrangements not specified in the listing
Listing to verify. A public-service delivery role connects to your agile delivery and GDS Service Standard experience, with a purpose focused on improving resident access. This is a specialist temporary transformation role with unconfirmed hours and arrangements; useful only if you can demonstrate relevant programme depth and confirm contract terms. Check before applying: Confirm contract duration, weekly hours, on-site expectations and commute. Check essential experience in Discovery-to-Live public-service transformation and contact-centre systems. Confirm umbrella pay terms and expected working days.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
1. Review the 3 live opportunities. 2. Tailor your CV around the evidence each role asks for. 3. Apply selectively where the remaining gaps are learnable rather than hard blockers.
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Software delivery manager
Improving team delivery flow · Coordinating priorities, trade-offs and distributed teams · Allocating people and managing project administration · Facilitating learning and development
Improving team delivery flow
Check the expected team, portfolio and stakeholder scope against your experience. Check the expected portfolio scale and project-controls methods, including which systems you would need to learn.