Human Made

Freelance Scrum Master

Human Made

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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About the role

  • 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.

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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
ScrumAgile principlesHTMLHTML5CSSJavaScriptVersion controlProject management toolsBudget trackingTime tracking
Soft Skills
Servant leadershipFacilitationSituational awarenessConflict resolutionContinual improvementEmpowermentTransparencyCommunicationTeam collaborationProblem-solving
Certifications
Scrum Master certification