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Scrum Master

Hybrid in The Hague·Full-time·Added yesterday (last checked 4 Nov)

Our summary

Salary
€4,818 - €7,094 a month
Work mode
Hybrid, The Hague
Contract
Full-time
Languages
Dutch
Experience
5+ years

Skills

This job advert was originally written in Dutch.

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • HBO/WO working and thinking level with additional training in the field of Scrum, agile working, team coaching/team development, organizational change, and/or Agile Leadership;

  • At least five years of relevant work experience gained in a complex change context and a large stakeholder field;

  • The ability to effectively guide teams to a higher agile maturity level;

  • The ability to act within a political context and a highly complex environment and to achieve effective outcomes within it;

  • Being able to listen well, ask follow-up questions, confront, and connect people through your strong coaching and facilitating skills;

  • You dare to deviate from the beaten path where necessary. We specifically value someone who is and remains curious, asks open questions, and helps others to reach insights and solutions themselves.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

For our employment conditions, we follow the CAO Rijk (Central Government Collective Labour Agreement).
That means you can count on the following, among other things:

  • A salary of at least € 4,818 and at most € 7,094 gross per month based on 36 hours. Depending on your knowledge and experience. If you do not yet possess all the necessary knowledge and experience at the start of your position, a choice can be made for temporary placement in a lower salary scale. You will make agreements about this with your manager at the start of your position.

  • 8% holiday allowance and a 13th month. In total, this is 16.5% on top of your salary. We call this the Individual Choice Budget (IKB). You decide yourself how, when, and in what way you want to use this budget.

  • Pension accrual at the ABP Pension Fund.

  • A laptop (Microsoft or Apple) and mobile phone (Android or iOS).

  • You work hybrid, with a guideline of at least 2 days per week in the office. You will make agreements about this within your team.

The role

Are you the connector who knows how to coach our agile teams to a higher level? Will you help us stimulate and guide collaboration and governance across the teams?

Then the position of Scrum Master might be a good match. A Scrum Master with the qualities of a Scrum Coach who looks beyond the Scrum events, understands how organizations can integrate improvements and innovation into their functioning from their practice, and feels at home in the interplay between development teams and management.

What you'll do

You are responsible for the growth in maturity of the teams. You do this by redefining and helping to safeguard team goals, roles, and responsibilities. Coaching the team, the product owner (PO), and direct collaboration partners and helping them grow further in their collaboration and responsibilities. Our teams organize their daily activities as independently as possible. You help them to become increasingly stronger in doing so, which gives you space to devote attention to the human and organizational sides of change.

Where you make the difference

  • Coaching the teams on collaboration, ownership, and independence, and supporting team members in effectively fulfilling their roles.

  • Monitoring and improving the flow, predictability, and quality across multiple teams.

  • Seeking and finding alignment on ways of working, quality, and collaboration (such as Definition of Done, working agreements, Scrum events, and tooling).

  • Structurally guiding retrospectives and remaining closely involved in the collaboration, development, and challenges of the teams.

  • Ensuring engagement and transparency towards line management, business partners, and other IT teams, and advising management on team development, organizational improvements, and the design of work processes.

Hiring process

We will close the vacancy once sufficient candidates have applied.

About Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

In their own words

About the company & team

At CBS, we work daily on reliable information that is important for the Netherlands. Behind our statistics stands an extensive IT organization that constantly innovates, develops, and improves. Within our IT organization, we work agile scrum with 25 software development teams.

Despite the fact that Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has existed for 127 years, we firmly believe in embracing change and challenging traditions. In this context, we have embraced scrum and various agile methodologies to improve both the development process of our applications as well as the execution of various statistical studies and surveys. At CBS, craftsmanship is shared in guilds.

Multiple agile teams working on existing applications and new IT products within CBS. Each team has a PO. The teams love to learn, are customer-oriented, and are open to new ideas and ways of working together. We work largely from the office and consider a pleasant working atmosphere and connection with one another to be important.

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