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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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The role of the Intermediate Scrum Master is to facilitate the removal of impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. The Intermediate Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals. Helps the team coordinate with other teams in the programme. The incumbent will work in a multi-functional team to ensure continuous delivery of quality solutions.
• Deliver software development projects using Agile development methodology.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and demos.
• Ensure agile processes are followed and work with the teams to help them adopt the process that works best for the team.
• Ensure project teams are practising the core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.
• Support the business outcome owners and delivery teams as necessary.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events.
• Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible.
• Adapt delivery plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks.
• Establish productive operational relationships with key stakeholders in the various channels and administrative teams.
• Risk and issue identification and management.
• Communication to the team and outside of the team.
• Provide progress updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Consults on IT strategy and architecture from technical and business perspectives.
• Provides technical and solutions advice.
• Aligns across other teams at Scrum of Scrums to improve overall programme delivery.
• Manage quality people practices
• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with wider business teams to deliver required service levels.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.

Required skills, qualifications and experience.
• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) with relevant qualification (Commerce or IT)
• 2 – 3 years’ experience in project / software delivery
• Certification as a Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Professional
• Good understanding of business IT
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• Very strong technical background either as a Business Analyst, Software Developer, Quality Analyst or Project Manager
• Successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices and introduced Agile techniques and have coached teams to apply them effectively
• Proficient in managing scope in an Agile project and facilitating the user story lifecycle in close collaboration with the customer/Business Outcome Owner, including breaking down complex requirements into independent user stories, capturing detailed acceptance criteria, building a release plan with user, managing the backlog, running showcases
• Experience of running distributed teams and distributed agile will be advantageous
• Experience in software development projects
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills including exceptional client facing/consulting skills
• Professional facilitation skills to empower the team through facilitation
• Ability to run and facilitate core meetings and activities: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, story writing, sizing, prioritising, daily stand ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills
• JIRA/Confluence experience (or other relevant tools). Making work visible though a Sprint board

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Professional Certificate

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