Scrum Master - Public Sector

Location:
London
Job Type:
Permanent
Industry:
Business Transformation
Job reference:
BBBH134653_1615225269
Posted:
about 3 years ago

Scrum Master - Public Sector

Location: WHF / London

The successful candidate will have be SC Cleared eligible or have active SC Clearance

We are actively looking to secure a Scrum Master to join Experis as one of our expert consultants, delivering services to our clients.

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

Benefits include:

  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Enhanced Life Insurance Cover
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Enhanced Accident Insurance
  • 22 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Sick pay

Role Description

Our Client is a multinational corporation that provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services. We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our Client to be accountable for the following:

Key responsibilities:

  • Effectively facilitate the daily stand-up meetings with the team.
  • Ensure that the project boards are kept up to date and that the agreed processes are being followed.
  • Clear obstacles
  • Establishing an environment where the team can be effective
  • Addressing team dynamics
  • Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team
  • Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
  • Coach the extended team in agile methodologies

Essential skills:

  • Communicating between the technical and non-technical - Able to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. Able to manage stakeholder's expectations and is capable of proactive and reactive communication. Facilitates difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
  • Maintaining delivery momentum
  • Able to facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. Able to actively identify and address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.
  • Making the process work - Able to identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. Able to add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes.
  • Planning - Understands the environment and is able to work with the Product Owner and other team members to prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. Able to use data to inform planning. Able to manage complex internal and external dependencies. Able to provide delivery confidence. Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect the plan and is able to develop a plan for difficult situations. Ensures teams plan appropriately for their own capacity.
  • Team dynamics and collaboration - Able to bring people together to form a motivated team. Able to empower delivery teams. Able to help create the right environment for a team to work in. Recognises and deals with issues. Able to facilitate the best team makeup depending on the situation.

If you have the above skills, please submit a latest version of your CV in the first instance.

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