Coordinator - Scrum Master at MTN Nigeria

Mission

• To provide comprehensive assistance in business change requests initiation, planning, execution, control and closure to facilitate IT agile deliveries.
• To help facilitate scrum to the larger team by ensuring the scrum framework is followed.

Description

• Assist in compiling project charter including projecting project scope, problem statement and goal statemen
• Coordinate all Scrum activities including sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups for assigned teams
• Work with the Product owner to define Product roadmap for the Tribes, handle backlogs and new requests
• Coach team members on Agile frameworks and practices
• Act as the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments, contribute to establishing the Sprint Goal; monitor Sprint Progress; 
• Ensure adherence to all PSCOM processes towards delivering Epics and User stories 
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
• Measure, analyse, and report on progress per Scrum team by identifying team velocity, story-points, estimation, Burndown Charts, Burn Up Charts and other agreed parameters
• Gather relevant status and assist in providing with up-to-date information on all active sprint deliverables (where applicable) to Agile Manager
• Track sprint activities in compliance with planning guidelines and plans
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint 
• Develop Sprint plans for all assigned scrum team 
• Schedule and track quality assurance reviews within the Scrum team and assist with formal success reviews
• Prepare and circulate status update reports including burndown chart, burn-up chart 
• Track and monitor identified risks and proactively escalate risks in accordance with related escalation rules (where applicable) and procedures.

Education:

• First degree in any related discipline 
• Certification in Agile practices (e.g.  PSMi, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CSM, ICP)
• Fluent in English

Experience:

• 3 - 7 years of experience which includes;
• Experience working in a small to medium organization
• Candidates must have good use of computer and JIRA + Confluence software packages
• Experience in managing small to medium sized teams