Scrum Master London, England
Job description
Permanent
Full time 34.5 hrs
Salary range: £55,500 to £60,500
Location: Split between home and our London Office
Our ambition at Macmillan is to reach and improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer and inspire millions of others to do the same. We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition. This role is an opportunity to help design our future and enable us to achieve that ambition.
As a member of the team you will:
- Ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive and kept within the timebox
- Coach the team members in self-management and cross functionality
- Promote and facilitate continuous improvement by hosting open, fair and transparent sprint retrospectives and ensuring actions are followed through with the team
- Help find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
- Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
Your knowledge and experience
You will be able to:
- Identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use
- Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them
- Facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo
- Understand the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks
- Bring people together to form a motivated team
In return, we offer
- 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
- Private medical insurance, including a Virtual GP Service
- Learning and development time, including access to external professional qualifications
- Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours and flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
- Discounted gym membership, free wills, social team events and much more
Recruitment Process
Application deadline is Sunday 28th May 2023.
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
