Scrum Master

2024-11-22

jackien@precisemrc.co.zw

Financial Services

We have been retained by our client in the Financial Services sector for the recruitment and selection of a Scum Master.The primary goal of the Scrum Master is to assist the team in meeting delivery goals and operates as a servant leader who helps teams to self-organise, self-manage and deliver via effective Agile practice ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified scrum master.
• 1+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  

Other Competencies

Business Acumen
Capability to understand the business environment

Network Building
Capability to build and maintain effective and constructive working relationships, partnerships or networks of contacts with people who are instrumental in achieving work-related goals

Customer Excellence
Capability to identify and respond to current and future customer needs by providing  excellence

Analytical Thinking
Capability to build on a logical approach to address issues and to see patterns or connections between different situations

Strategic Thinking
Capability to link long range vision to daily work

Agility
Capability to simultaneously accept and adapt to change, as well as, remaining effective and task focused in a fast paced environment

People Development
Capability to foster long-term learning or development of self and others through coaching, managing performance and mentoring

Effective Communication
Capability to transmit and receive information clearly and communicate effectively to others by considering their points of view in order to respond appropriately

Teamwork
Capability to contribute to effective team performance by cooperation, openness and a commitment to business objectives

Creative Thinking
Capability to think outside the box, search for and generate new ways of doing things to achieve utmost effectiveness and efficiency

Entrepreneurship
Ability to take action to influence the direction of events and moves business forward by balancing opportunity and risk and developing new products and services

Result Driven
Capability to focus personal efforts on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives

Key Focus

The Scrum Master manages the Agile practice execution, ensuring it is understood and enacted.
The primary goal of the Scrum Master is to assist the team in meeting delivery goals and operates as a servant leader who helps teams to self-organise, self-manage and deliver via effective Agile practice ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

This role is also responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Project Sponsor, a definition of the project.
This role is responsible for managing projects across businesses and functions, in order to meet strategic business objectives. The role incumbent is responsible for planning, executing and evaluating projects according to predetermined methodologies, timelines and budgets and required quality standard

He/she ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. He/she will potentially work on multiple medium – high complexity projects simultaneously.

Key Result Area and Accountability

Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables the team to excel at agile  development.
Facilitate the end to end execution of the process (Daily stand-up meetings, Iteration planning, Demos/ showcases and retrospectives)
Facilitate medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through to release.
Navigate and identify shared IT services required by the team in the delivery of its objectives.
Facilitate discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the team.
Actively manage risks and external dependencies drawing in team members as appropriate.
Create and maintain the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards,) to create a trusting and safe team environment
Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.
Remove all impediments to optimise work through the team ensuring that iterations are running smooth.
Protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work.
Support the Product Owner to track changes in scope and communicate these changes to relevant stakeholders.
Build a high-performing team by managing intrapersonal conflicts.
Generate and maintain team metrics and the tracking
Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.

Harare

1 years

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