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Role: Agile Coach

Start Date: 26/06/2023

Duration: 10 weeks/3 days per week

Rate: Very completiveday rate,dependant on experience

Contract Type: Outside IR35

Location: Hybrid/London

BIP UK (formerly Chaucer) are part of Europe's fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 in 2025. Operating at the intersection of business and technology we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale creating greater value for your customers, employees, shareholdersand society. We are over 4700 people operating in 14 countries.

We help our clients manage change successfully by creating quality on a large scale through a formula that comprisesthree levers: Value, People and Technology. Excellence is at the core of everything we do, and we adopt an ethical and loyal approach towards those who choose to work with us. We achieve this by promoting an environment in which people can grow together, blending skills and experiences in a way that works best for our clients while creating meaningful career development for our people.

About the job:

BIP UK are a disability confident employer, and we interview every disabled applicant (As defined in The Equality Act 2010) that meets the minimum criteria for the job:

Do you have experience setting up Platform teams and ways of working from scratch in Financial services companies?

Do you have solid experience as a Agile Coach driving empowerment and accountability working in technology/digital?

Do you have experience within London Market Insurance or Financial Services?

We are seeking an Agile Coach, for our London Market insurance client.

Key Responsibilities:

Coaching senior leaders to create a high-performance culture:

Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset

Hands on Scrum Master

Facilitate learning and development through individuals and team coaching Operate an Agile Framework to a senior level:

Assess, develop, and lead our agile maturity, analysing current tools and processes and designing a strategy for adopting agile best practice

Lead the implementation of agile frameworks and techniques, working with scrum masters to fine tune them as needed

Ensure consistency of the framework whilst allowing scrum steams to operate in a self-organised manner

Define and champion the use of metrics and other success measures across teams to drive continuous improvement

Promote continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones

Skills & Experience:

Experience setting up Platform teams and ways of working from scratch in Financial services companies.

Very strong stakeholder management skills

Experience as a Agile Coach driving empowerment and accountability working in technology/digital

A track record in implementation of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

Strong coaching skills, ideally comfortable breaking down beliefs, values and behaviours (utilising frameworks such as GROW, Gestalt, Nancy Kline, NLP, etc.)

Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Excellent communicator and motivator

Strong Stakeholder skills

Desirable skills:

London Market insurance industry experience

A consulting background

Scrum master certification

Coaching qualification (EMCC/ICF)

Real world, real work, and real value, that’sthe BiP UK commitment on every transformation we do. We deliver good-sense, human-centred strategies, that produce the results. We understand the possibilities can seem endless. Challenges are complex, technology ever evolving, and business goals pressurised and diverse.

BIP UK believes in conducting business for the greater good. We embrace all aspects of corporate social responsibility in a way that permeates everything we do, including not only the way we interact with our own people but with our various communities as well as the environment.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 10 weeks
Part-time hours: 24 per week

Salary: From £850.00 per day

Benefits:

• Work from home

Application question(s):

• Do you have an understanding of Kanban/Scrum/Agile methodology and experience working in a Scrum team?
• Do you have very strong stakeholder management skills?
• Do you have experience within London Market Insurance or Financial Services?
• Do you have solid experience as a Agile Coach driving empowerment and accountability working in technology/digital?

Experience working in a Scrum team?

• Do you have a track record in implementation of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)?
• Do you have experience setting up Platform teams and ways of working from scratch in Financial services companies?

Experience:

• Consulting: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Coaching qualification (EMCC/ICF) (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London

Reference ID: AgileCoach/Ins
Expected start date: 01/07/2024