JerseySTEM is seeking a skilled Agile Coach & Subject Matter Expert to help develop and implement agile practices across all of JerseySTEM. The Assistant Director: Agile Practices role reports to the Head of Operational Excellence, is a servant leader for a team of volunteer scrum masters & agilests, and is responsible for:

• Mentoring and developing junior Scrum Masters

• Collaborating with business area leaders to coach and mentor best practies and business processes. 

• Implementing practices associated with scrum, kanban, SAFe, and other agile frameworks

  / methodologies.

• Owning ‘continuous improvement’ frameworks across all JerseySTEM departments.

• Establishing metrics, reports, dashboards, and communications associated with team

  performance, development, and delivery.

• Champion the use of JIRA and other work management systems; standardizing workflows, issue type hierarchies, estimation, intake, and capacity planning / road mapping efforts.

   

The Agile Pracitces Assistant Director is a key role within the OPEX department; collaborating with OPEX Leads from the PMO, RPA, and Business Process Automation teams to establish best practices, optimize existing processes, and create new & modern ways of working within JerseySTEM.

The candidate will have demonstrated expertise and application of Agile methodologies, techniques and frameworks, a successful track record of driving and facilitating teams, commitment to continuous learning and mindset of relentless improvement.

• Implementing practices associated with scrum, kanban, SAFe, and other agile frameworks / methodologies.

• Owning ‘continuous improvement’ frameworks across all JerseySTEM departments.

• Establishing metrics, reports, dashboards, and communications associated with team

  performance, development, and delivery.

• Champion the use of JIRA and other work management systems; standardizing

  workflows, issue type hierarchies, estimation, intake, and capacity planning / road

  mapping efforts.

• Conduct weekly meetings with the Scrum Masters and monitor the health of the Agile teams.

• Train new Scrum Master and team members ensuring understanding of Kanban, JIRA and other tools the team may be utilizing

• Ensure consistency with the teams, Scrum Masters and Team Leads

• Identify process and communications issues

• Identify opportunities for improvement and be “THE CHAMPION OF CHANGE”.

• Minimum time commitment: 5-7 hours/ week with committed work times, for a

  minimum 6 months period.