X3 Senior Agile Coach

Stratford-upon-avon, Warwickshire
Cancer Research UK

4,000 professionals, 0 days wasted, 1 incredible purpose. Together we will beat cancer.

X3 Senior Agile Coach

£55,000 – £60,000

Reports to: Lead Agile Manager

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 18 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

We’re open to a variety of ways of working, including full time, part time, job share and compressed hours.

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 19 June 2023, 23:55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews

Interview date: From the week commencing 19 June 2023

Application method: We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications ; we won’t be able to view them until the interview stage so they will not be reviewed in the shortlisting process. To be considered fairly for this role, you must fill out the employment history application questions.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

Cancer Research UK’s Technology team believes that we can help our charity beat cancer sooner by supporting and promoting a positive culture of empowered teams that work collaboratively, make decisions based on solid evidence, and continuously adapt, learn, and improve.

As a Senior Agile Coach, you will be on the front lines of organisational transformation by helping to deliver our Engage Transformation Programme in partnership with our Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement (MFE) Directorate. This programme aims to deliver better, more personalised, and consistent experiences for Cancer Research UK’s audiences which will build deeper, more engaged supporter relationships that increase fundraising towards our lifesaving research and services.

We are looking for three Coaches to join our team and own one of the following transformational projects within Engage: MFE, CRM, or CMS. You will play a leading role in implementing Agile and Lean methodologies across your specialist portfolio while training, coaching, and mentoring individuals and teams to adopt these methodologies in line with our Design Principles and Technology strategy.

As a Senior within the team, you will also develop the Agile capability by implementing best practices that enable Cancer Research UK to become the most adaptive, resilient, and innovative organisation it can be.

What will I be doing?

Coaching, guiding & collaborating:

• Evaluating cross-functional teams’ needs, advising and on adopting and sustaining an Agile and Lean mindset in accordance with Cancer Research UK’s Principles & Technology Strategy
• Implementing Agile and Lean ways of working across the Technology directorate and the wider charity using frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Design Thinking, or bespoke approaches based on the organisation’s needs to:
• Foster an atmosphere conducive to effective communication and psychological safety
• Ensure teams are value-focused and able to deliver at a sustainable pace
• Improving the maturity of how we facilitate and host agile ceremonies and workshops (e.g. design sprints, planning, retrospectives, kick offs, lean coffees, etc.)

Best practice and capability building:

• Being a key driver and facilitator of the Agile capability at Cancer Research UK
• Acting as a role model demonstrating the charity’s beliefs and setting the tone for how people behave
• Understanding and promoting Technology and our operating and organisational model
• Driving and promoting a team culture of support and sharing which facilitates learning (including from failure, individual, and capability continuous development)
• Positively developing best practices by proactively identifying and implementing learnings, new frameworks, techniques, and tools
• Developing guiderails and playbooks for the capability
• Promoting the capability within the organisation through training, presentations, blog posts, and creating learning and development resources to influence organisational culture and promote best practices
• Mentoring new team members to the Agile capability
• Always encouraging a spirit of collaboration and approachability within the Agile capability, portfolio, and delivery teams as well as with our stakeholders
• Assisting the Lead Agile Manager and other team members in setting, tracking, and meeting measurable objectives
• Identifying and capitalising on opportunities for continuous improvement, encouraging and challenging others to do the same for the benefit of the charity and its supporters

What skills are you looking for?

To be considered for this role, you must have the right to work in the UK as we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role:

• Significant experience in implementing digital transformation within large, complex organisations
• Experience successfully embedding Agile ways of working and coaching teams to improve their practice
• You do not need to currently identify as an Agile Transformation coach. Please apply if you have exposure to a range of Agile, Lean, and other similar methods (such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX / Lean Start-up, DevOps, design thinking, ITIL, and Project-based delivery etc).
• Coached cross-functional teams and partnered with software development and leadership teams on complex iterative projects/ products to promote Agile and Lean methodologies, best practices, and breakdown siloes to achieve shared goals
• Acted as a Senior upskilling, training, and mentoring junior members of your team
• Built strong internal and external stakeholder relationships having demonstrated excellent communication and influencing skills with the confidence to influence upwards

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

For the full job description and more information about working with us please contact Jamie.Byford.

Additional Information

Cancer Research UK’s Technology team is proud to be part of the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) for our efforts in driving equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Our vision is a digital world accessible to all, and we have always sought to draw from a diverse pool of talent and maintain an inclusive working environment.

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