Scrum Master

This is a Hybrid Role based in Midrand, Gauteng - Telecommunications industry, contract position for 6 months.

Remuneration: R400 - R450 per hour

Responsibilities
• Ensure that the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles as adopted within the department and also ensure the continuous improvement thereof.
• Ensure the proper implementation of the Scrum or Kanban Agile methodology approaches within all teams that you are supporting as a Scrum Master
• Facilitate and maximize team productivity by supporting the team(s) as a Scrum Master and helping / enabling them to grow and develop as a high performance team.
• Managing and tracking effort and progress and highlighting ways to keep the project on track despite issues – “can do” attitude is essential. • • Maintaining group dynamic to facilitate individuals working as a team.
• Measurement: number of partners who went live with services month-on-month output vs planned output.
• Ensure project stakeholders (including customer management and project team) are informed (at customer agreed intervals) of project/sprint status and changes as per agreed scope and communications plan.
• Communication and feedback plan needs to be agreed with the customer/project stakeholders
• Workshop/Meeting organization and facilitation
• Identify project stakeholders and form project teams
• Project scoping
• Drawing up and managing project plans and project schedules
• Stakeholder management
• Accurate, regular and Adhoc project reporting to stakeholders
• Ensure that all project management documentation is stored in a central repository
• Ensure that all project management tracking tools are updated daily
• Collaborate with all related groups to ensure the correctness of business requirements
• Application of Project Governance Controls following the Project Delivery Life Cycle
• Manage change control procedures to ensure fundamental scope changes are escalated and accepted.

Qualification and Experience Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or another related field
• Experience and/or certification in Scaled Agile Framework and Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• 5+ years’ experience in a PM role within IT software development environment
• Ideally some exposure to Digital projects within a telco or financial services
• Experience in working with multivendor teams in various locations
• Experience with project management tools e.g., JIRA, MS Project. Project management, Agile Methodologies, ITIL

Please note that the hiring team responsible for this position will be using the PikUniq platform for candidate screening and conducting one-way interviews. Each application received will be carefully evaluated and responded to by a PikUniq representative. Simple, quick, and easy steps and actions will be required; therefore, please be on the lookout for an email response after applying.