Agile Coach

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At North Highland, we believe in doing great things together. With you. With our clients. With a perspective on actions today that shape tomorrow. As the world’s most innovative, collaborative consulting group, we’ve built a space to share ideas like never before. Do you have the skills, passion and commitment to transform industries for the better? Think you can bring your A-game every day? If so, join us. We like big thinkers with action on the brain…

Why North Highland? Every choice you make will give you the opportunity to grow. It’s our employee ownership model - with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities in the mix. For us, training doesn’t have an off switch. You’ll learn new things, both during and beyond traditional working hours. We want people who strive for the next level, then the next.

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Agile Coach

North Highland are looking for Agile Coaches as part of work in a people-centric and value/outcome-focused culture and working environment.

You will coach, mentor and guide our people in squads to figure out the best solutions the business goals. You will be coaching Agile Teams as they create and deliver value through Agile ways of working and helping unlock potential within scrum masters and Product Owners.

What we are looking for:

• Understanding of various Agile methods, when they would be used
• Understanding of the different coaching stances and why they would be used
• Ability to drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset
• Ability to guide teams to help them learn through their Agile journey

Key responsibilities are to:

• Support squads with the adoption of Agile methods
• Facilitate maturity of role-based competencies in squads
• Champion the use of leading indicators and other objective measures of success
• Develop coaching plans for maturing role-based competencies and agree them with squad members
• Facilitate learning and development through individual and group sessions in service of delivering the outcomes of the coaching plans
• Where applicable, develop content and deliver bite sized ongoing learning in service of delivering outcome of the coaching plans

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and knowledge of Spotify method
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments
• Strong mentor, leader, educator, and coach
• An excellent communicator and motivator

There is a large coaching community at our client and you will have the opportunity to collaborate with your fellow agile coaches to support the client’s business goals.

** Applicants must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, now or in the future, for this position.

North Highland makes change happen for organizations who dare to be different. By melding workforce, customer and operational transformation, they are one of the world’s leading consulting groups, with 65+ offices around the globe. They break new ground today so tomorrow is easier to explore.

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