Summary
The job posting is for a freelance Scrum Master position at Human Made, a remote company that values diversity and works in English. The role involves creating self-organizing teams, managing projects, facilitating meetings, and building relationships with clients and internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have experience in applying scrum, agile principles, and data-driven mindset, as well as strong leadership, communication, and technical skills.
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 with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project
- 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
- Applying Scrum To Produce High Quality Work
- Manage each projects 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 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
- Identifies 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
- Allocation management of project needs in conjunction with your squad composition
- 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
- Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with
- Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations
- Manage your interactions with clients and internal team professionally, and personably
- Using data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions
- Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output
- Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders
- Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement
- Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement to get the best out of each team. Report progress, team status, and issues across the board
Benefits
- Gain experience working in an agency, without a long term commitment
- Work alongside some of the WordPress industry’s top engineers
- Access to Slack channels which will open up plenty of opportunities to network with other WordPress peers at Human Made
- The opportunity to explore Human Made with the potential of becoming a full-time employee
