The Opportunity

Our client is a community focused Federal Government Agency, currently seeking multiple EL1 Scrum Master's to assist the Service Design and Improvement Branch in ensuring the successful delivery of internal projects to enable stronger processes and systems.

This will be a 12-month initial contract with further extension possible, offering EL1 daily rates of $602.55 + Super daily.

Based in Richmond or Geelong, this role supports hybrid working, expecting 2 - 3 days per week on site, with the remainder from home.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing project scope and timeline including forward plan
• Working in line with the Agile project approach in supporting the design of the feature and working in line with waterfall project approach for forward view of design dates etc.
• Use Project management tool to map out project deliverables and dependencies.
• Monitor the team's overall progress within all aspects of the projects/features by proactively capturing the overall status and responding to any risks, issues or actions, which may arise and maintain RAID log using consistent branch templates and tools.
• Assist Domain Owners in planning and allocating resources for the features/projects using consistent branch tools and templates.
• Coordinating sprints and retrospective meetings which review the project status and daily scrum stand-ups.
• Coaching team members in agile and waterfall frameworks and scrum/project practices and guiding development teams to higher project maturity
• Working with product and Domain owners to develop and handle product backlogs and new requests.
• Helping to build a productive environment where team members have accountability for the product.
• Managing the governance of the project against Agency frameworks and escalating concerns, as necessary.

Essential criteria:

• Australian Citizenship is mandatory to be eligible to work for this Federal Government Agency.
• Ability to manage project scope and timeline.
• Coordinating sprints and retrospective meetings which review the previous project and daily scrum stand-ups.
• Coaching team members in agile frameworks and scrum practices.
• Working with product owners to develop and handle product backlogs and new requests.
• Guiding development teams to higher scrum maturity.
• Helping to build a productive environment where team members have accountability for the product.
• Experience managing project governance.
• Scrum Master Certification advantageous.

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Submit your resume, or for further information please contact [email protected] for more information.