IT Scrum Master at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose

• The Scrum Master plays a crucial part in ensuring the success of our IT operations Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital company
• The Scrum Master is a servant leader to the DevOps delivery team, coaching agile methods, and providing support and facilitation to increase velocity and team productivity
• This role is responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, and impediments, leading the team and business in finding a solution, coordinating with other teams and functional partners, and actively escalating when needed to ensure resolution.
• This role is responsible for keeping a pulse on needs and insights from stakeholders and other initiatives, regularly communicating status, changes in direction, and relevant metrics to avoid misalignment and roadblocks

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Support the Product Owner in ensuring right-sized story writing, aligning priorities, and planning sprint iterations
• Track and manage risks and issues of the delivery team
• Track and report on current status of all team members and the delivery
• Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning
• Coordinate with other delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to manage risks, interdependencies, and impediments to the team

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Relevant diploma / degree in Information Systems, or another related field
• A total of at least five to eight years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be as a Scrum Master or Project Manager
• Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams
• Experience working with agile methodologies

Core Competencies, Knowledge, And Experience

• Is a role model for best practices in Agile process execution, motivating other team members to do the same
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community
• Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives
• Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills, helping the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed
• Strong grounding in traditional project management practices
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes

Closing date for Applications: 22 May 2023