Agile Coach (Africa Lead) at KPMG

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Advise and support regional teams in executing agile transformation initiatives, either at a project or enterprise level
• Promote agile maturity assessments as a tool to ascertain agile readiness and craft strategies to improve adoption of agile across the enterprise
• Develop comprehensive Go-to-market strategies with regional teams for agile transformation
• Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership
• Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s agile agenda

Client Impact

• Facilitate learning and development among employees through individual and team coaching
• Communicate agile principles, scrum practices, and overall operating model across the organization
• Coach and mentor cross-functional teams, leaders, and stakeholders on agile methodologies, principles, and practices to enable the adoption of agile practices and mindset
• Create a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation by promoting agile values and principles, and encouraging team collaboration, transparency, and feedback.
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures of agile adoption and value realization
• Identify cultural barriers and mindset shifts that hinder agile adoption and work with the organization to overcome them.
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and team-building activities to promote collaboration and alignment across the organization.
• Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met
• Help clients foster an environment of psychological safety, where team members feel comfortable taking risks and sharing ideas and feedback
• Coach teams on Agile methodologies, principles, and practices to improve their delivery process, quality, and productivity.
• Work with cross-functional teams to facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
• Identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize and manage the product backlog
• Encourage team collaboration, continuous improvement, and self-organization
• Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate teams on Agile practices
• Monitor and measure team performance and identify opportunities for improvement
• Implement and oversee Agile metrics and reporting

Finance

• Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
• Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
• Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area 

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Communications, Operations, Business, or Technology or any other relevant field
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience of combined business or technology experience within an Agile environment
• Excellent knowledge of agile methodologies, values, and principles, and the ability to coach teams on their adoption and implementation
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and senior management
• Passionate about organizational culture transformation, and the ability to identify cultural barriers and mindset shifts that hinder agile adoption and work with the organization to overcome them
• Experience facilitating workshops, training sessions, and team-building activities to promote collaboration and alignment
• Familiarity with agile metrics and reporting, and the ability to develop and implement strategies to measure and monitor cultural transformation.
• Knowledge of emerging practices and tools related to cultural transformation, such as design thinking and lean management
• Experience in using scrum, kanban, and scaled agile framework (SAFe)
• Agile certification, such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Agilist, is a plus
• Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments
• Experience in running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• Strong skills for leading, educating, and coaching