Agile Lead at Jumo World

Job description

At JUMO we are motivated by an ambitious purpose and inspired by the exceptional people that we work with We are looking for an Agile Lead to join our Engineering team. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya and will report to the Director // Engineering.

Job Purpose

Enabling individuals and cross-functional teams to achieve the Engineeing team’s overall priorities through the facilitating and leading of discussions that drive planning, problem solving and overall increases in productivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow a group of talented individuals, in a non-traditional environment, into a high-performance team by leading continual improvement through introspection and adaptation
• Create transparency through daily stand-ups, scrum boards, weekly and monthly agile ceremonies
• Provide regular feedback and insights to internal stakeholders on overall performance and highlighting key issues to resolve potential issues and for decision making
• Facilitating the flow and volume of work and to ensure optimal levels of productivity in line with business needs
• Creating boundaries and eliminating blockers to enable the team to focus on sprint committments

Capabilities

• Great verbal and written communication
• Strong track record of personal and servant leadership
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative
• Firm, but tactful
• Sense of humor
• Collaborative
• Resilient

Key Requirements

• 3-5 years as Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager
• Experience with agile project management tools such as JIRA or Pivotal Tracker
• High degree of computer literacy
• Certified Scrum Master is desirable
• Tertiary Degree is desirable
• Comfort with Agile/Scrum outside of software development