Within the Educational Support Services Department of a public educational institution, teams and Product Owners are further developing their agile way of working. The teams vary in experience and maturity. An independent Scrum Master is sought to contribute, as an inter-team change coach, to ownership, self-organization, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The deployment will be focused, in consultation, on a team and the relevant dependencies with other teams and the organization.
The Scrum Master does not take over the responsibility of teams or Product Owners.
What you will do.
- Coach team and Product Owner on collaboration, ownership, self-organization, role consistency, prioritization, stakeholder management
- Support the Product Owner with product vision, roadmap, and effective backlog, without taking over decision-making
- Help find a workable balance between operational activities, improvement
- Identify and constructively discuss patterns, tensions, and bottlenecks within and between the team, Product Owner
- Make impediments visible and help resolve them; escalate organization-wide obstacles to the appropriate level
- Facilitate retrospectives and other Scrum events where this has learning value; encourage follow-up on improvement actions
- Support teams in various phases of agile development, including conflict resolution and inter-team dependencies
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners on consistency, knowledge sharing, and strengthening roles within the department
- Advise managers and stakeholders on the application of Agile and Scrum and contribute to change trajectories where appropriate
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed HBO bachelor's degree, or a completed MBO 4 degree with at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience in a comparable position
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable work experience as a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or comparable coaching role
- Demonstrable work experience in guiding teams and Product Owners in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Demonstrable work experience with coaching, team development, and guiding change
- Excellent command of Dutch, both written and spoken
Preferences:
- Demonstrable work experience with team coaching and development of ownership and self-organization
- Demonstrable work experience with coaching Product Owners, role consistency, prioritization, and stakeholder management
- Demonstrable work experience with organization-wide impediments, change processes, and inter-team collaboration
- Demonstrable work experience in complex organizations such as an educational institution
- A demonstrable Scrum Master certification, preferably PSM I or CSM (or equivalent)
Profile
- Coaching ability
- Organizational sensitivity
- Change power
- Reflective ability
- Independence
- Role consistency
- Conflict management
- Knowledge sharing
- Facilitation
- Connecting
- Giving feedback
- Analytical ability
- Decisiveness
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