Scrum Master at Boardroom Appointments

• Are you an experienced Scrum Master with a passion for driving Agile delivery, enabling high-performing teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement?
• Our client is seeking a hands-on and driven Scrum Master to join their Digital & Technology function. This role forms part of a product team and is responsible for ensuring teams are fully functional, productive, continuously improving, and focused on achieving sprint goals.
• This is an urgent requirement and forms part of a maternity leave replacement. The successful candidate should be available to start immediately or at short notice.
• The successful candidate will support team members in maximising their potential while promoting a strong Agile culture and mindset across the organisation and its stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
Agile Facilitation

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile activities as required.
• Promote and demonstrate the core principles of collaboration, prioritisation, team accountability, and visibility.
• Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of Agile ways of working across the organisation.

Team Coaching & Enablement

• Foster a collaborative culture within the department, external development partners, and product teams.
• Promote team building and ensure the entire team remains engaged.
• Coach the team in creating product backlogs, sprint backlogs, and writing user stories in the most pragmatic way.
• Support everyone involved by leveraging their individual skills to maximise team performance.

Delivery Support

• Identify and remove impediments or distractions that prevent the team from delivering against their commitments.
• Manage Work In Progress (WIP) limits to ensure teams are not working on too many stories or tasks simultaneously.
• Help the team establish a predictable flow of starting and completing work.

Minimum Requirements
Qualifications

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification.
• SCRUM Certification.

Experience

• 3–5 years' relevant work experience.
• Proven Scrum Master experience at an intermediate to senior level.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage and challenge stakeholders.
• Proven experience as a coach, facilitator, and leader focused on improving team performance, satisfaction, and motivation.
• Sufficient technical depth and affinity with the product to understand development and delivery issues within the team and assess their relative importance.
• Content knowledge including coding, testing, and business analysis.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, meet deadlines, and perform to a high standard.

Highly Advantageous

• Solid foundation in SAFe and Lean methodologies.
• Strong proficiency in Jira.

Key Competencies

• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Team Collaboration
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving
• Continuous Improvement
• Leadership
• Time Management

What's on Offer

• 6-month maternity leave replacement contract.
• Immediate start available.
• Opportunity to work within a collaborative Digital & Technology environment while driving Agile delivery and continuous improvement.
• If you are an experienced Scrum Master with a strong Agile background, SAFe and Lean knowledge, Jira expertise, and are available to start immediately or at short notice, we'd love to hear from you.