Scrum Master
Our Mission: To connect all people in need and the programs that serve them (with dignity and ease).
Aunt Bertha picks up where Uncle Sam leaves off by making it easy to find and apply for government and charitable social service programs. By organizing the world's human service program information, we make it easy for people in need and the people who help them to find help in seconds on https://findhelp.org.
We are looking for people who are driven to make the world a drastically better place and want to join our small group of thoughtful, committed citizens because they believe, as Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Our employees are aligned around this mission. It is a requirement of our application process that you include a cover letter detailing how Aunt Bertha’s mission speaks to you.
Please note: If our mission doesn't strike a chord with you that is OK. But please consider not applying. We are seeking people who come on fire after learning about what we do.
As a Scrum Master, you will support and lead multiple teams in Agile development practices to ensure the smooth operation of all team processes and activities.
The ideal candidate has Agile experience across multiple organizations and experience leading remote Agile teams.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog.
- Motivate team member participation and recognize individual member contributions in building a sense of team camaraderie, trust and value.
- Assess the Agile Maturity of teams and coach them to higher levels of maturity at a pace that’s sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization.
Acceptance Criteria
Required
- Comprehensive understanding of Agile values and principles, and Scrum & Kanban software development methodologies and practices.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
Preferred
- Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques such as User Stories, User Story Mapping, Vertical User Stories, Affinity Estimation, TDD, Pairing, Agile Games, etc.
- Experience acting as an Agile coach at the organization level.
- Experience in leading teams new to Agile.
Desired
- Competency in use of Jira and Confluence.
- Experience working for a large, highly sophisticated organization.
Aunt Bertha is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building a company whose employees understand our users, through their own lived experiences. This means we strive to hire employees that are diverse by race, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, sexual orientation, physical abilities, veteran status and socio-economic upbringing.