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Freelance Scrum Master
Location
United States
Posted
41 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Freelance Scrum Master
Human Made
• 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.
Job 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
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
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