Agile Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the project team, facilitating Scrum ceremonies during the initiation, planning, execution, and closure of projects, ensuring compliance with Agile practices.
• Fulfilling a mid-manager role, supporting the Senior IT Leadership with delivering strategic IT initiatives and programmes.
• Engage in detailed business and technical knowledge transfer in order to gain competent levels of understanding to help solve problems yourself, to facilitate others in problem-solving, and to help you anticipate and ‘unblock’ tasks.
• Be able to help challenging the team for achievement of business value and elimination of waste and have an appetite to gain understanding of initiatives and their wider context.
• Motivate teams forward towards our strategic and tactical objectives.
• Be capable of and experienced in coping with ambiguity, putting shape on kick-offs and driving initiatives forward from early stage into tangible deliverables.
• Coach individuals to maximise their potential and their contribution to the Scrum team.
• Be willing and capable of helping to represent the team – this includes all areas of communication such as verbal status summaries, written reports, preparation of presentations, and stakeholder management.

Experience Required

• 7+ years’ experience in project delivery, with more recent experience in Agile delivery but respecting that the candidate may have valuable experience prior to this working in a Waterfall environment
• Certified Scrum Master

Desirable Competencies

• Leadership
• Planning and Organising
• Communication and Influencing
• Building and Maintaining Relationships
• Problem Solving and Decision Making

Educational Requirements

• Professional accreditation of project management methodologies and processes, e.g. Prince 2, PMP, Agile
• Degree in IT / Computer Science / Project Management desirable