Scrum Master/Project Manager

Ohio  ‐ Onsite
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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.

Start date
n.a
From
Beacon Hill Staffing Group
Published at
12.01.2018
Project ID:
1483092
Contract type
Freelance
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