Scrum Master

Overview:
**Scrum Master | Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location | £41642 - £49860 + £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period | Full or Part Time Hours | Flexi
- time | 25 Days annual leave (increasing to 30 after 4 years’ service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege| Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions 27.1 - 27.9%)|**

Social Security Scotland currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master to join our Service Management & Service Development branch.

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating and reporting on the successful delivery of technical outputs within the delivery teams. Collaboration is essential, as you will work closely with colleagues across the organisation and will attend senior management meetings to provide updates and recommendations. This role offers the means to continually develop your skills and experience and provides numerous progression opportunities alongside a great work/life balance.

This role involves collaboration with colleagues from various technical teams as well as the wider organisation. This includes attending senior management meetings to provide updates on progress and recommendations based on potential risks. You will maintain boards, plans, and reports that allow stakeholders to easily track the progress of their projects.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead a small team consisting of Developers, Business Analysts, and Quality Assurance Analysts. Collaborating closely with other Scrum Masters, you will work together to deliver business objectives.

Social Security Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, has the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over £300m, we are delivering a social security system that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come.

We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each other’s contributions.

**What do we offer you?**

We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops, and retains only the best talent.
- B3 - Salary between £41642 - £49860 plus a £5000 annual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period. This supplement is backdated and paid with your monthly salary
- Flexible working arrangements with potential of up to 4 days off per month
- You will have an annual leave allowance of 5 weeks, rising to 6 weeks after 4 years. In addition, the Scottish Government observes 11.5 days public and privilege holidays, dates of which are set annually
- Workplace adjustments for everyone that needs them to ensure your comfort and safety in your new role
- Learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth
- Career progression - join a rapidly growing and developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement
- Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions 27.1 - 27.9%)
- Health and wellbeing support including 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all

**DDaT Pay Supplement**

**Hybrid Working**

**About Us**
- Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.
Find out more about us here

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and co-ordinate the outputs of one or more delivery teams using appropriate and agreed project management methodologies, learning & iterating frequently
- Work prioritisation and decision making within the assigned delivery teams
- Report progress, delays, risks and issues to relevant governance boards and stakeholders
- Review, challenge and adjust performance levels to ensure quality outcomes are delivered on time, rewarding success
- Assist in resolution of delivery blockers
- Champion and coach Agile Delivery Methodology within the delivery teams
- Act as escalation point for delivery teams
- Work with other SCRUM Masters to ensure output dependencies are identified and logged
- Support the CDO Delivery Manager and Portfolio Manager in the management of a pipeline of potential new initiatives/projects, determining whether (and how) a set of projects in the portfolio can be executed within the finite development resources in a specified time
- Fundamental to pipeline management is the ability to align the decision-making process for estimating and selecting new projects with the Transfo