Agile Coach

**Description**:
**Role title: Agile Coach**
**Function: Digital & IT**
**Band: G Department: Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation**
**Reports to: Principal Agile Coach, Lean Agile Centre of Excellence**
**Location: UK (Newbury, Paddington)**

**Context**
By working together as one Vodafone and consistent with our strategy we are transforming Vodafone into a Technology Communications Company (Tech Comms); offering a range of products and services beyond connectivity to our customers to deepen our relationship with them. To harness our full potential, we need to change fundamentally how we work in certain areas of our business. We need to simplify and standardise how we operate to benefit from our unique advantages of scale and move to a more efficient and effective model to deliver our growth ambitions.
Digital & IT is a newly emerging function within Technology that will be critical to this transformation on a global level. Within this newly created function, a domain called Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation (LPM&T) has been established with the following mission:

- We are the trusted Enablers of the Business, ensuring that the delivery roadmap of demand will be aligned with the Tech 2025 Strategy and our new Product Operating Model via managing demand, capacity and performance.
- We are the drivers for increasing our delivery efficiency by providing data-based business insights and focusing on the re-usability and standardisation across all markets, also by involving our IT partners.
- We are role modelling the agile ways of working and implementing the SAFe methodology within Digital & IT by setting up an overarching LACE Structure.

**Role purpose**

**Job Responsibility**:
**Key accountabilities and decision ownership**:

- Support the agile transformation and guidance of delivery teams and ARTs through the agile journey by
- Coaching each local market to increase their maturity against the 7 Key Scaled Agile competencies
- Contributing to a comprehensive SAFe curriculum in collaboration with Grow with Vodafone/Vodafone University and other LACE functions
- Contributing to standards and creating playbooks for agile ceremonies, e.g. PI-Planning, daily stand-ups, Portfolio Syncs, etc.- Provide training and coaching on agile ways of working and adoption of SAFe to delivery teams and ARTs
- Train and coach agile principles, practices, roles, artefacts and ceremonies to maintain consistency of adoption and continuously improve performance
- Facilitate knowledge sharing of best practices and capture it in a useable, easily accessible format for all- Facilitate the usage of agile adoption measurements to evaluate and report the performance and adherence of the organisation on a regular basis
- Data-driven assessment of agile maturity across markets
- Data-driven assessment of delivery performance- Coach and guide delivery teams and ARTs on an on-going basis

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:

- Demonstrable experience of coaching and leading teams in adopting and implementing Agile methodologies
- Sufficient SAFe knowledge and experience to complete the Safe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certificate if required
- Practical experience in at least one IT domain (development, testing, DevOps, Agile team leadership)
- Ability to inspire, coach and motivate remote multi-national teams
- Ability to continue to monitor, learn and implement best practices via Agile communities of practice
- Knowledge of current & evolving Agile methodologies and tools
- **Must have technical / professional qualifications**:

- A STEM/Commercial degree or equivalent
- Intermediate or Advanced SAFe Certificate; SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate desirable but not essential
- Knowledge and experience of working in an agile role, e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile PM, Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach
- Experience in complex organizations with distributed responsibilities or with an international environment

**Budget owned**:

- Responsible for making requests for training funding allocation across multiple product and transformation portfolios

**Direct reports**:
None

**Key performance indicators**:

- Contribution to improvements in SAFe ART Performance metrics
- Demonstrable improvements in SAFe flow metrics

**Dotted reports**:
Work through and with other coaches and stakeholders across multiple product and transformation portfolios

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