Agile Coach
Posted 4 days ago by Damia Group Ltd
£630 Per day
Inside
Remote
Nationwide
Summary: The Agile Coach role involves providing hands-on coaching to teams and individuals within a global health insurer as they transition to agile methodologies. The position requires facilitating the adoption of agile frameworks, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and promoting a customer-centric mindset. The role is remote and is classified as inside IR35, with a contract duration of six months. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive experience in agile practices to drive organizational change and enhance agile capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on coaching to teams and individuals, helping them to understand and excel in agile practices.
- Facilitate the adoption of agile frameworks and methodologies across the organisation.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and feedback loops.
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and coaching engagements to build agile capabilities.
- Encourage the use of metrics and data-driven decision-making to optimise delivery.
- Promote a customer-centric mindset within teams.
- Assist with economic decision-making and facilitate capability and feature estimation.
- Advocate for lean thinking and systems thinking in agile practices.
- Support the transition from traditional project management to agile methodologies across the enterprise.
- Foster Lean-Agile learning and provide necessary training to kick off and maintain the transformation.
- Coach leadership to lead by example and connect them to the voices of employees and suppliers.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in Agile transition and coaching.
- Proven track record as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills with a customer service-oriented approach, and a focus on building relationships with people at all levels of the organisation.
- Experience with Lean Portfolio Management procedures and ceremonies.
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership ability to engage and motivate in a high-performance culture.
- Self-directed achiever who identifies opportunities to drive value and takes the lead.
- SAFe certification or equivalent agile certification preferred.
- Extensive experience managing software delivery; strong IT application development & leadership background preferred.
- Experience in leading organizational change from traditional project management to agile methodologies.
Salary (Rate): £630/day
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Agile Coach - Remote - £600-£630 per day inside ir35 - 6 months
My client, a global leading health insurer, is continuing their transition to more agile ways of working. As a result, they have an increasing need for coaching support.
- Key Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on coaching to teams and individuals, helping them to understand and excel in agile practices.
- Facilitate the adoption of agile frameworks and methodologies across the organisation.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and feedback loops.
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and coaching engagements to build agile capabilities.
- Encourage the use of metrics and data-driven decision-making to optimise delivery.
- Promote a customer-centric mindset within teams.
- Assist with economic decision-making and facilitate capability and feature estimation.
- Advocate for lean thinking and systems thinking in agile practices.
- Support the transition from traditional project management to agile methodologies across the enterprise.
- Foster Lean-Agile learning and provide necessary training to kick off and maintain the transformation.
- Coach leadership to lead by example and connect them to the voices of employees and suppliers.
- Required Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience in Agile transition and coaching.
- Proven track record as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills with a customer service-oriented approach, and a focus on building relationships with people at all levels of the organisation.
- Experience with Lean Portfolio Management procedures and ceremonies.
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership ability to engage and motivate in a high-performance culture.
- Self-directed achiever who identifies opportunities to drive value and takes the lead.
- SAFe certification or equivalent agile certification preferred.
- Extensive experience managing software delivery; strong IT application development & leadership background preferred.
- Experience in leading organizational change from traditional project management to agile methodologies.
Agile Coach - Remote - £600-£630 per day inside ir35 - 6 months
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