Job Description

ROLE:

• Facilitate and moderate sprint grooming, planning, demos, retrospectives and daily scrums
• Remove obstacles to team and sprint success
• Encourage self-organization by facilitating the appropriate delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members
• Coordinate across co-dependent scrum teams in multi-scrum team environment
• Utilize and improve usage of JIRA, and to a certain extent Confluence, as a tool to monitor and manage sprint success

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• A deep understanding and the ability to apply both the theoretical and practical aspects of agile development
• Proven experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience working closely with Project Managers to improve project predictably and delivery success
• Ability to help product teams generate product backlog and make them ready for the next sprint
• Experience effectively identifying and driving resolution on deliverable dependencies with other teams
• experience using JIRA to track and manage agile development, or experience using tools similar to .
• Someone who has the ability to:
  • Influence and lead development, quality, and product professionals, including design (both user experience and interaction)
  • Partner closely with product to set the vision and execute the sprint plan
  • Foster and maintain a collaborative team dynamic
  • Solve problems and think critically
  • Plan and organize (and re-organize) in an environment of shifting priorities
  • Communicate clearly, both by speaking directly and writing concisely
  • Negotiate and manage conflict
  • Learn quickly and adapt to the environment
  • Proactively identify blockers and help the team look ahead for potential risks and recommend mitigations

EXPERIENCE:

• A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a minimum of 0 to 2 years of experience as a scrum master.
• A Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a computer science, information technology, or an equally technical background
• Experience with a variety of AGILE methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in education technology
• Experience working in an agile-waterfall hybrid environment

Company Description

We are an eVerified and equal opportunity employer