Agile Coach - Gloucester - National Security West
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Job description
We are looking for a passionate team focused Agile Coach to join us following continuous growth and success in the UK National Security sector. Behind great solutions are great teams, and our Agile Coaches are there to help support, guide, and coach them to success. In BAE Systems we don't believe in constraining ambition, and therefore view Scrum Masters as Agile Coaches.
This particular role can range from junior to mid-level so we are happy to talk to candidates who are either starting out in their team focused agile coaching career or who have some experience already, looking for the next career move. For this role you will be based in our Gloucester office with hybrid working arrangements available.
What you could be doing for us:
- Our Agile Coaches help our clients, teams and the wider organisation to understand what it means to implement, adopt and embrace an Agile mindset in order to increase the delivery of business value. Agile Coaches come armed with a knowledge and understanding of various Agile tools, techniques and frameworks to guide a team or organisation on its journey to unlock and achieve its full potential using Agile methodologies.
- Our Agile Coaches guide, coach and mentor teams and organisations to embrace Agile ways of working to help them thrive in a complex world. Agile Coaches extol the virtues of an Agile mindset by being Agile, not just doing Agile.
- Our Agile Coaches ensure that teams and organisations understands and adheres to Agile theory and practices. The Agile Coach facilitates stakeholder collaboration, removing barriers between stakeholders and the team and/or organisation. The Agile Coach helps everyone to understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work to maximize the value created by the team.
- At a team-level, our Agile Coaches are accountable for the team's effectiveness. The Agile Coach helps the team to perform at its highest level as a whole team and supporting the process to enable it to successfully deliver value. They do this by promoting self-organisation within the team, causing the removal of any impediments to the team's progress and facilitating the team's events and ceremonies.
- Our Agile Coaches support healthy team dynamics by creating psychologically safe environments where transparency and trust are catalysts for change and continuous improvement.
- Our Agile Coaches have a people-centric outlook using their emotional Intelligence and soft-skills to uncover and explore issues impacting the delivery of business value
- Our Agile Coaches are comfortable in navigating complexity and happy to operate in a range of Agile capacities, including Scrum Master, Kanban facilitator/coach, as well as roles specific to Scaled Agile frameworks.
- Above all, our Agile Coaches are more than a 2-day certificate Scrum Master - they are change agents, community builders, and leaders in their own right. They are passionate to grow their craft, attend conferences and local meet-ups, and participate in the businesses wider Agile and Scrum communities.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Teaching?, * You will have demonstrable experience in elevating a team's performance, not through management, but by enabling others to grow. There are many examples of where you might have experienced this, for example, sports clubs, military, community initiatives, teaching etc.
- You will have experience in facilitating, coaching and mentoring a team and have a passion for helping people unlock their full potential. This does not necessarily need to be in an Agile setting, however you will have some understanding of what Agile is, the differences to traditional project management, and a passion/conviction for developing your career in an Agile direction.
- You will have experience of helping a team navigate complex situations, change or internal disputes/dysfunctions.
- You may have more experience, and could have helped or led the adoption of Agile frameworks such as Scrum/Kanban etc at the team level or wider.
- You might even have experience in Agile scaling frameworks such as Scrum@Scale, LeSS, SAFe and Nexus, This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under represented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.