What we are looking for:

Transparency and honesty on the application. If the candidate has not yet embraced the role of a Scrum Master in different companies for at least 3 years, please write a very good motivation on why Scrum Master is her/his new career move. We are looking for long-term collaboration with people human centric who will focus on the people in the team to support. Agile hard skills are necessary however, Agile soft skills are mandatory! There is a 1h30 interview to deep dive into this.

General info of the assignment:

The client started to implement Lean six years ago with Application Development and Maintenance (Business Analyst and IT) and some projects in the business (outside IT) with the Scrum framework. Now, new Agile initiatives are popping up a bit everywhere in the company. From prototyping in our incubator to long-run teams acting in very big products critical for the business and keep the light on. Our Agile Chapter mission is to support the Teams in their cultural change toward a continuous improvement.

We deeply trust that Agility will support the Digital transformation needed to embrace the Energy Transition.

More or less 60 FTE are dedicated to the support of the teams.

We are looking for 6 Scrum Masters:

There are many open Scrum Master positions to join the product transformation. The consultant will support two teams. We aim for stable teams, so we try to find with the consultant what are the teams suit the consultant the most in order to commit on at least one year support without changing teams.

Service expectations:

The Scrum Master helps individuals to adopt the right mindset and behaviors, the teams to embrace continuous improvement and the organization to truly collaborate with the Agile teams:

• Soft skills over hard skills
• Facilitate over solving
• Adapt to the need over doing by the book
• Working team over working product

Team up with the existing Agile Chapter team:

• Main mission: integrate two teams and enables their culture.
• Two days a month equivalent: participate to our Agile Chapter team events (scrum events, agile clinic, strategy brainstorm, community of practice, offsites, etc.).

Punctually: help the coaches on workshop/training co-facilitation.

Requirements:

• Team and individual focused attitude
• Know, own and apply, also for himself, the Agile mindset (value and principles)
• Able to provide a positive and constructive feedback for improvement
• Ability to work fully independently & plan Scrum activities without supervision
• Proven work experience as Scrum Master
• At least 3 years
• At least has been part of 2-3 different teams as a Scrum Master
• In a different context than IT: plus
• For more than one company: big plus
• Able to train Scrum, Kanban, agile and others techniques
• Mastery of several Agile project/product management approaches (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) to be flexible depending on the team needs
• Team virtual and physical facilitation skills & focusing on creating the right environment for the team
• Strong interest in innovation and eager to experiment new techniques
• Knowledge of Design Thinking Process and related methods and tools (nice to have)
• Knowledge of UX design/development frameworks (nice to have)
• Fluent in English
• Any of those languages is a plus: German, French and Dutch.

Additional information:

• Work regime: fulltime
• Location: Brussels and accept to travel occasionally to Berlin.
• Two days per week of homeworking. More homeworking days can be allowed depending on the need of the mission owner.
• Important: if the consultant will work in Belgium, for non-EU candidates, please present candidates who comply with the following criteria:
• Possess a work permit allowing the individual to work in Belgium.
• Hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium.