Scrum Master

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’sbiggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

Stand Together is building an internal Agile practice to sustain meaningful delivery improvements made over the last year. As a Scrum Master embedded across multiple teams, you will be the person those teams rely on to run great ceremonies,maintaina healthy backlog, and create the trust and psychological safety that makes honest retrospectives and real improvement possible.

You will support multiple teams at different stagesof Agile maturity,soyoumust be comfortable adapting your approach while striving to execute to aconsistent standard. You will report tothe Agile Practice Lead, whoestablishesthestandards and frameworks youoperatewithin. You will work closely with Product and Engineering Leads on each of your teams.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies:standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews with preparation, cleartime-boxing, anda consistent bias toward outcomes over process.
• Build the trust and psychological safety that makes retrospectives honest and improvement actions credible.
• Shift sprint planning from in-meeting discovery to in-meeting alignment by doing the administrative and readiness work, including ticket review, agenda setting,andJira cleanup.
• Maintain backlog health: ensure work is properly categorized, sized, structured, and ready for commitment before it enters a sprint.
• Apply and reinforce standardized ticket structures:consistent issue types, field usage,user story and acceptance criteria formats, spike success criteria, bug reproduction steps.
• Track, analyze, and communicate sprint metrics including velocity, rollover trends, and estimated versus actual effort; surface patterns that improve planning accuracy over time.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis of blockers and rollover; ensure carryover discussions result in specific,corrective actions.
• Identify and actively pursue impediments that cross team boundaries, escalating to the Agile Practice Lead when resolution requires broader organizational action.
• Contribute tooveralldelivery standards by sharing what is working, flagging what is not, and helping build the playbooks and templates thatbenefitall teams.

• Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.
• The interpersonal skills to build trust quickly on teams that may be skeptical, fatigued, or in conflict. You know that facilitation is only as effective as the relationships beneath it.
• Strong Jira skills: backlog management, workflow configuration,automation,dashboard and reporting development, and the discipline to keep data clean and meaningful.
• Comfortoperatingacross multiple teams simultaneously, including managing schedule complexity and adapting your approach to teams at different maturity levels.
• A diagnostic mindset: you notice patterns, ask good questions, and distinguish between a team problem, a process problem, and an organizational problem before deciding how to respond.
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture , which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

• Experience standing up or scaling Agile practices…