Freelance Scrum Master

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Requirements:

• Scrum Master certification or qualification, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience applying Scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data driven mindset.
• Enterprise agency environment experience.
• Highly developed skills in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software.
• Proficiency in written and oral communication in English, and ability to utilise and parse through technical terminology comfortably.
• Broad understanding of web technologies such as HTML/HTML5, CSS, CMS, JavaScript, and version control.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Manage each project’s 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 the team 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 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.
• 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.
• Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations.
• Use data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions.
• Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output.
• Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement.