Agile Coach

12 Month Initial Contract | Various locations NSW / ACT / QLD / SA / VIC | Federal Government

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking an Agile Coach to work for a federal government agency on an initial 12-month contract.

In this role you will guide the implementation and tuning of agile methodologies, using your in-depth knowledge and experience to embed agile values, principles and practices across multiple teams and the organisation, to achieve a vision of delivering contemporary and trusted services to the Australian community in a timely, efficient and high- quality manner. You will guide, coach and increase the organisation’s agile maturity and ability to deliver at pace to achieve effective human-centred outcomes.

Required skills and experience

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, principles, and practices, with hands-on experience implementing Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and scaling Agility across organisations.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience in driving Agile transformations, developing an agile culture, improving team performance, and delivering business value.
• Support teams to scale and consistently adopt emerging best practices including providing guidance to teams on their operating rhythm activities (business unit-level, team-level, enterprise-level).
• Strong skills in implementing practices that support teams through the stages of adopting, learning and continuous improvement including process and maturity assessments and adoption roadmaps.
• Embeds an inspect-and-adapt culture by helping establish metrics across the team. Coach key stakeholders on how to use defined metrics as a diagnostic to identify improvement opportunities.
• Experience in coaching Agile teams in government environment

Please note that you must be an Australian citizen with the ability to obtain a baseline security clearance to be considered for this opportunity.

You can be located in the capital of the following states, NSW / ACT / QLD / SA / VIC, working 3 days per week in the office. Please note that the first 6 weeks has a requirement of 5 days per week in the office.

NEXT STEPS

If you think this could be the right role for you APPLY TODAY or for further information, please contact Lindsey at [email protected]