Scrum Master

Do you want to play a key role in guiding and inspiring teams within a dynamic and social environment? Are you a connector and do you want to work within an innovative Agile Organization? Do you have a passion for Agile and Scrum and are you able to drive collaboration and continuous improvement? Then you are the Senior Scrum Master we are looking for!

As a Scrum Master, you are a driving force behind effective Agile working methods. You support teams and Product Owners in delivering value and optimizing processes.

This is what you will do:

• Inspire and support teams and Product Owners in delivering maximum value.
• Initiate and coordinate process improvements, allowing teams to work together more effectively.
• Recognizing patterns and trends within your teams and implementing improvements with impact.
• To stimulate a culture of trust and open communication, in which conflicts are resolved constructively and cooperation is central.

Our teams work in a complex environment for different domains (research, education, operations), different stakeholders and dependencies. As a Scrum Master, you will help at least two teams in their growth towards (Agile) maturity. You look beyond the Scrum events: you recognize patterns in collaboration, ownership, prioritization and execution, and based on these insights you implement improvements. In this role, you are expected to actively coach teams in improving their way of working, tackling obstacles and strengthening cooperation with their stakeholders.

This is where you will work Within our IT department - with 200 enthusiastic professionals - we work in multidisciplinary teams on themes such as digitization, self-service, security, data management, high performance computing and cloud strategy. An environment full of current challenges and plenty of opportunities for further development.

To successfully fulfill this role, you are/have:

• Several years of experience as a scrum master with coaching and guiding Agile teams;
• Strong coaching skills to help colleagues and teams grow;
• Organizational insight to take collaboration within and between teams to the next level;
• Excellent communication skills, so that you stimulate trust and cooperation;
• A proactive and connecting mindset, with which you take ownership and actively contribute to the Scrum Master group.
• Fluent in Dutch

When it comes to terms of employment, Wageningen University & Research is the right place for you. Highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement are, for example:

• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• There is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities available on campus at an attractive rate;
• a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme through ABP.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also include an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of at least € 4,220 to a maximum of € 7,337 for a full working week of 36 hours according to the Collective Labor Agreement for Wageningen Research (scale 11/12). An appointment of 32 hours is negotiable. When it comes to your contract, we initially offer a one-year contract with the intention of converting it to an indefinite contract.

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,600 employees (6,700 fte) and 13,100 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

Read the 5 reasons why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR and watch the video below to get an idea of our green campus!

We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.

Join us and come work at WUR

At Wageningen University & Research, you work at improving the quality of life. Together with your colleagues, you seek to answer the challenges within our domain ‘healthy food and living environment.’