Scrum Master

# Title: SCRUM MASTER **Hourly Pay - $70 per hour** **Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA)** **6 month contract** **Hybrid - Berkeley, CA** # # ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead multiple Scrum teams with Agile methodologies in sprint or Kanban environments - Own and facilitate all Scrum meetings such as the daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demo, and retrospective - Coach the organization to adhere to Scrum practices and focus strictly on delivering real value for real users - Provide support within planning and reporting tools such as Jira - Help teams achieve higher levels of Scrum maturity and self-organization capability - Help build an environment of accountability where team members feel a true ownership of the product - Support the Product Owners with backlog management, scope management, handling stakeholder requests, and defining priorities - Build and maintain reports for velocity, burndown, project planning, and capacity in order to provide ongoing insights and recommendations to the team - Conduct other activities such as story point estimation, adjusting roadmaps, supporting quarterly planning, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration - Accelerate teams by resolving conflicts, removing impediments, and reducing context switching - Curate a team culture that encourages commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage, while upholding the pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation # Education & Experience - Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field - Scrum Master certification - 5+ year’s experience in a Scrum Master or Product Owner role in a software development environment - Experience with Jira - Experience coaching teams new to Agile and Scrum # Knowledge, Skills & Abilities - Excellent communication, active listening, and servant leadership skills - Excellent knowledge of Scrum elements and artifacts (user stories, sprints, kanban boards, backlog refinement, scope, velocity, definition of done, and more) - Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve conflicts - Ability to work with and lead a team - Outstanding organizational skills - Ability to be highly flexible and adaptable within a rapidly changing environment - Ability to coach, understand, and empathize with team members while putting people first - Ability to lead agile transformation efforts while leaving space for team culture, norms, and values