Scrum Master and Project Manager

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Job type:
Full time.

Employment type:

Permanent. Department:
Campus Housing - Facilities. Hiring Range: $67,688.63 - $84,610.79.

Primary

Purpose:

Reporting to the Assistant Director, the Scrum Master and Project Manager role will fulfill a variety of critical responsibilities to promote the development of high performance teams that meet or exceed expectations established at activity initiation and align with departmental and institutional mission, vision, values, and objectives. As a Scrum Master the role facilitates and coaches scrum teams in how to use continuous improvement practices and principles to deliver high quality programs and services to students and other stakeholders.

The role makes essential contributions to advance continuous improvement practices within the department. As a Project Manager the role is responsible for providing project management services to a variety of operational and strategic initiatives ranging from individual teams to department-wide or institutional-level activities.

Scrum Master:
Acts as a facilitator who coaches scrum teams in self-organization and cross-functional skillset, and communicates effectively, both internally and externally, while working within a team.

Scrum Master:
Facilitates and provides primary support to all scrum events.

Scrum Master:
Ensures team(s) use time efficiently and effectively by using visual management techniques, time boxing events, clarifying how actions will lead to outcomes, and aligning activities across the team, department, and institution.

Scrum Master:
Works with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members to increase the effectiveness of continuous improvement practices across the department.

Scrum Master:
Advances scrum team(s) to a high performing level by helping members recognize problems and opportunities and implements appropriate coaching and development techniques.

Scrum Master:
Provides training/education to ensure continuous improvement methods, values, practices, and standards are understood and followed by all team members.

Scrum Master:
Anticipates and effectively deals with any project barriers by defining issues, examining alternatives, and effectively guiding the team(s) towards resolution.

Scrum Master:
Applies expertise in estimating time, energy, and effort required by a team to produce desired outcomes within a given period of time.

Scrum Master:
Makes sure team(s) clarify desired outcomes by establishing definitions of done and acceptance criteria for actions at individual and team levels.

Scrum Master:
Conducts retrospective meetings to promote continuous improvement within a scrum team while developing a shared understanding of areas of improvement in the short- and long-term.

Scrum Master:
Effectively manages scrum backlog to ensure work is visible to the team and stakeholders, ordered according to business value and aligned with the enterprise backlog to achieve the desired outcome(s).

Project Management:
Participates on multi-disciplinary team(s) providing oversight and coordination of projects.

Project Management:
Employs project management best practices and methods to ensure work is planned and executed to meet applicable departmental and institutional standards and objectives.

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