Position: Junior Scrum Master
Company: UnameIT
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Requirements:

•  Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills;
•  1 years experience as a Scrum Master for a web development project/ in an agile development environment; in managing the team of experts in a specific area, incl. remote teams;
•  Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with team members across multiple reporting/hierarchy levels;
•  Strong interpersonal collaboration skills;
•  Project management skills;
•  Ability to work with remote stakeholders in a multi-cultural environment;
•  Ability to proactively and independently follow up with business partners and other digital teams to identify opportunities, align strategies, and provide consultations on managing multiple projects;
•  Understanding of website services activities and landscape (eCommerce, personalization, campaigns, social media, SEO); 
•  Knowledge of project tracking-management tools (Jira/Azure DevOps/Confluence experience etc.);
•  A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or has taken equivalent training;
•  Upper-Intermediate or higher English Level.
Responsibilities:
•  Guide and coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver services with high quality;
•  Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines;
•  Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective;
•  Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile team of 25 website service specialists (Web Content Editors, Front- and Back-End Developers, SEO Specialists, Analytics and Insights Experts, etc.);
•  Facilitate the team’s and the organization’s continued adoption and adaption of Scrum;
•  Assist the team as needed with backlog maintenance, and with User Story writing w/good Acceptance Test development;
•  Be a channel for internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information;
•  Assist the team with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs;
•  Assist team with making appropriate commitments through relative backlog sizing, sprint story selection, task definition;
•  Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices;
•  Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution; improve team dynamics;
•  Empower the team to self-organize; set the tone for ever increasing quality / velocity within the team—leading to high performance and exceeding expectations;
•  Support the team in its use of Jira and Confluence for its backlogs, requirements, documentation, velocity, burn-up and progress;
•  Process management: Ensure consistent and high-quality delivery of website services including web content editing, technical SEO, optimization, etc.; organize workflow, support employees as needed, ensure that tasks are performed efficiently;
•  Drive service evolution and develop expertise; cross-functional alignment (MSE, Market, Function, GMB, Zone, Agency, IBS) as an extension of the solution lead;
•  Maximize team productivity by improving ways of working and processes; scale opportunities in the area of website services and lead implementation of new ways of working across projects or service lines;
•  Manage relationships with business partners in the market, business, or HQ; ensure partner expectations are met and exceeded through service orientation and service quality.