Scrum Master - Contract - 1 Year

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

The role includes the following responsibilities:

Key Result Areas

The Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals.

As the Scrum Masters you will be involved with facilitating, teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices.

You will also helps the team coordinate with other teams in the programme.

You have the ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, Daily standups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

Facilitation

• Facilitate the team engagements for better efficiency of the team, bringing stakeholders and team closer to ensure total alignment on work required.
• Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team.
• Facilitate events such as daily stand-up meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and decision-making processes in order to ensure optimal value.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a safeguard for the team.
• Aligns across other teams at Scum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement.
• Builds a high-performing team, focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coaches the team in self-management.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
• Empower the team through coaching.

Qualifications and Experience required

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• 3 years’ relevant experience. Experience within the investment industry advantageous.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc. 
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation.
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Meets deadlines and ability to work under pressure.  A team player with strong collaboration skills.
• Proactive, confident and show initiative.

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