Freelance Agile Coach

About the Role:

For a multinational client in Amsterdam, we are looking for an Agile Coach on an interim basis.

Responsibilities:

• Embed the transformation baseline training into practice; work with teams to apply and reinforce the training programme content
• Coach for measurable outcomes
• Track and evidence coaching impact; Ensure all interventions and coaching activities are encapsulated in the agreed framework, clearly showing the journey taken with each team. Demonstrate meaningful improvement against agreed metrics from a baseline.
• Coach in 12-week transformation cycles; engage with up to three teams at a time in focused twelve week cycles, guiding them through the adoption of the baseline expectations from the transformation programme.
• Advance capabilities beyond the baseline; After the baseline practices are embedded, work with teams and leaders to identify further development opportunities, deepen agile capabilities and address specific team needs.
• Collaborate with trainers and internal agile coaches
• Contribute to a coaching community; actively participate in the coaching community over the business unit positioned within, share insights, challenges and successes.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of agile coaching experience
• Proven ability to create and implement a coaching plan with current and target states, identify constraints and run a root cause analysis, driving sustainable change in behaviors.
• Proven ability to lead training sessions for various group sizes, adapting techniques as appropriate.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering engaging training material that follows a “Training from the Back of the Room” approach.
• Proficiency with scaled facilitation techniques such as Liberating Structures.
• Demonstrate the ability to assess the uptake of knowledge of participants.
• Deep understanding of agile values, principles, practices, framework and methodologies.

What We Offer:

• A freelance/payroll position
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model, with 2–3 days in the office in Amsterdam (non-negotiable)