Project Manager / Scrum Master (3 month FTC)

SUMMARY:
Project Manager / Scrum Master (3 month FTC)

POSITION INFO:

The combined Scrum Master – Project Manager role is responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project and scrum management practices. They have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. They adapt their approach to the context and constraints of each project, whilst managing a functional scrum team with continuous delivery of project, technical debt, information security and production support requirements.

Requirements:

• Scrum master certification or Safe Lean agile advantageous
• Tertiary qualification
• 5 years Project management experience and 2 years scrum experience
• Self-motivated, quick and assertive
• Extremely detailed oriented and organized
• Exceptional time management skills
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Cool, calm, collected and collaborative work well under pressure and comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments. Can shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them. Clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required
• Proficient in all MS Office applications, JIRA

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