Scrum Master

6 hours ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The University of Manchester Full time

**Are you ready to drive agile change at one of the UK's leading universities?**

**Who we’re looking for**
- As an adaptable Scrum Master, you excel in dynamic and complex environments. You demonstrate the ability to adapt effectively and facilitate change.
- You work well with both people and processes, focusing on mentoring, clear communication, and removing obstacles. Your role goes beyond standard routines to empower teams and deliver value efficiently. When working with stakeholders unfamiliar with agile, you provide guidance and ongoing support to keep projects moving forward.
- Your approach prioritises practical outcomes, rapid learning, and continuous improvement over rigid adherence to process frameworks.
- You efficiently identify potential obstacles and take proactive measures to address them.
- You possess the ability to analyse key metrics, identify trends, and promptly deliver insightful reports.

**What we’re looking for**

We’re looking for a pragmatic, adaptable Scrum Master who thrives in complexity and who has:

- Experience leading mixed teams (staff, contractors, consultants) in complex, high-stakes projects.
- Proven ability to adapt agile practices to fit real-world delivery, not just theory.
- Confidence engaging stakeholders who may be new to agile, building understanding and alignment.
- Coached mixed teams and building buy-in with non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of cloud-based technologies and platform-as-a-service (desirable).
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) (desirable).
- A pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset

Campus presence: you can ideally commit to being on-site at least 1 day a week initially, enabling high-touch collaboration and team cohesion. If you’re excited by complexity, thrive on experimentation, and want to shape agile delivery in a transformative University programme, this is the role for you.

**Why join us?**

Be part of a world-class university with bold digital ambitions. Work on projects that have real impact on teaching, research, and student experience. Join a collaborative IT culture where your ideas and growth are valued.

**What you’ll get in return**:

- Generous holiday allowance, excellent pension scheme, and staff wellbeing support.

**Inclusion matters here**

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

**Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews**:
Name: IT Resource Team

**General enquiries**:
Technical support:
**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

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