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Summary:
- Human Made is looking for a Scrum Master to join its global team.
- This is a remote position but you should be based in the EMEA region between UTC 00:00 – UTC +3.
- This is a fixed term contract for 12 months covering maternity leave.
- As a Scrum Master you will create self-organising teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints, with the goal of creating high performing teams.
- To do this you should be able to plan deliverables and help teams monitor their performance.
- You should have a thorough understanding of scrum/agile concepts, and can apply them through coaching and mentoring.
- You understand value, as it applies to the companies we work with and its alignment with our own priorities, and you are consistent in pursuing it.
Responsibilities:
- Manage each projects scope and timeline.
- Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery.
- Guide team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project.
- Work with squad to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements for projects.
- Prepare and facilitate workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships.
- Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
- Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments.
- Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate.
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies.
- Identifies when to use experiments for learning and solutioning.
- Be commercially aware: Understand the status of the budget of your projects and be able to report on them back to the company.
- Allocation management of project needs in conjunction with your squad composition.
- Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery.
- Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals.
- Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with.
- Be a contributing member of the squad or team.
- Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations.
- Manage your interactions with clients and internal team professionally, and personably.
- Using data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions.
- Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output.
- Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders.
- Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement.
- Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement to get the best out of each team.
- Report progress, team status, and issues across the board.
Requirements:
- Qualifications or equivalent work experience.
- Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data driven mindset.
- Experience working in an enterprise agency environment and/or hands-on expertise with Scrum practices.
- Strong skills in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and promoting transparency.
- Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project.
- Strong written and oral communication and ability to communicate technical concepts.
- Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., WordPress, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices.
Benefits:
- £35,000 – £40,000.
- Flexible working.
- Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave (dependent on tenure).
- 35 day holiday policy.
- Sickness and carers leave.
- Regular company retreat.
- Conference and training budget.
- Monthly remote working allowance.
- Work wherever you want.
- New mobile phone every two years.
- New computer when you need it.
