Scrum Master & Project Manager at Flare Emergency Response

The role

We are looking for an experienced SCRUM master to join us in our Nairobi office - to deploy and manage SCRUM practices throughout our product and ops teams. The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that their team follows scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the team to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

You should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor teams. Excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills alongside SCRUM & leadership experience are required for this role.

This role has a lot of growth potential within the company as it interacts with many core teams and initiatives. Initial responsibilities include:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Certified scrum master.
• 4+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be available to work from our Nairobi office.