Agile Project Manager

Epworth HealthCare is Victoria’s largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia’s health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients.

Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.

The Agile Project Manager plays a crucial role in facilitating agile processes and ensuring smooth delivery of the digital solutions at Epworth HealthCare. The position is responsible for guiding the digital delivery teams in following agile principles, removing impediments, and fostering a collaborative environment that enables continuous improvement. By facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile ceremonies, this role helps the teams stay focused on delivering high-quality results within set timelines.

In addition to team support, the Agile Project Manager works closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical execution. The position manages timelines, monitor progress and address risks to ensure that the delivery pipeline remains efficient and adaptable, driving the successful release of valuable features and enhancements.

You Will Make an Impact By:

• Facilitating Agile ceremonies including Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Scrum of scrums, etc. for multiple delivery teams.
• Facilitating regular digital showcases with business stakeholders.
• Working with the Product Manager and Owner to manage and prioritise work through the backlog, driving removal of impediments and ensuring work is tracked and progressing. Manage the teams scrum/task board.
• Facilitating estimation sessions with the Technical team.
• Monitoring team performance, create and manage evidence-based metrics, burn up charts and any other required reporting

To Succeed in This Role, you will have:

• Minimum 3-5+ years experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager or Agile Project Manager
• Proven experience working in an agile environment, facilitating agile ceremonies and guiding teams through the agile process.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, resolving impediments and ensuring timely delivery of projects.
• Experience developing agile metrics (burndown metrics, velocity, etc.) to analyse and improve sprint planning
• Experience working with Azure Dev Ops (preferred) or JIRA
• Experience delivering projects in 24/7 operational environments (desirable)

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field
• Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master certification.

Desirable

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Other relevant agile certifications such as PMI-ACP, SAFe Scrum Master etc.
• Certifications in project management methodologies (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2)

Position Description Inherent Requirements

At Epworth, it’s a community. It’s the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient matters. In addition to this, you will have access to:

• Epworth HealthCare offers our employees salary packaging benefits of $15,900 pre-tax annually, plus an optional $2,650 meals and entertainment allowance.
• The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
• Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
• Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth

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For more information, refer to the attached position description or contact [email protected] or phone (03) 9426 0606.

It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare, subject to reasonable exemptions, that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination, where this is required under Epworth policy.

As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).

At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all – across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care.