Description
Beacon Hill has an opportunity for a Scrum Master/Project Manager with our client located in Independence, Ohio.
This is a 2 year contract position to start.
Position:
Project Management
- Ensures that projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the expected level of quality.
- Works with team to prepare estimates and timelines for project tasks.
- Facilitates project communications to promote team participation and sense of ownership.
- Prepares and manages work plans that consider sound risk assessment, project co-dependencies, and resource constraints.
- Reports status and progress of assigned projects to stakeholders.
- Ensures that a Project methodology is used effectively and consistently across all projects under the incumbent's control.
- Collaborates with resources from various cross-functional areas to assist in the definition and planning of projects
Scrum Master
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
Continuous Improvement
- Encourages and maintains respectful and productive relationships, promoting teamwork.
- Works with team to assess, monitor and improve delivery, content, and quality measures according to defined goals.
- Consistently performs work according to the prescribed project methodology, so as to attain repeatability and consistency from project to project.
- Assists stakeholders in assessing and improving procedures, policies, and practices.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of active and successful project management experience.
- Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. (Adjust based on your necessity)
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Demonstrated communication skills to effectively provide and receive information relative to assigned projects.
- Requires strong organizational skills and excellent problem-solving skills to handle ambiguous project parameters, changing priorities, and tight schedules.
- Demonstrated attention to detail and quality measures.
- Demonstrated ability to make well thought out logical decisions.
- Must be a self-motivated and have the ability to drive projects to completion
- Must be quick learner and easily adaptable to change.
Interested and qualified candidates please reply to link with updated resume for immediate consideration.