Agile Delivery Coach

Company Description

Nine is Australia's largest locally owned media company - the home of Australia's most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want - across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine's assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our Purpose:
We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values:
We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Job Description

Play a critical role in advancing our agile delivery capability across our 12 publishing delivery teams responsible for our audience websites, native apps and editorial tools. This role works at the publishing portfolio level, overseeing all of the delivery teams and their ways of working, planning, prioritisation and delivery.

You will have regular interactions with business stakeholders and product owners to have an up to date view of initiatives' pipeline and implement a consistent initiative lifecycle across the publishing portfolio.

Work closely with senior tech and product directors, senior Engineering Managers, Head of Product and Iteration Managers to help plan and run the publishing portfolio of work, maintain a backlog, develop a roadmap, report on progress, allocate costs and create an agile delivery culture and structure that encourages sustainable development.

Nine has an Agile Delivery Practice which works across all engineering teams. You will regularly interact with the Agile Delivery Practice Lead to roll out common practices in publishing as well as provide feedback on effectiveness and challenges of adopted processes.

Responsibilities:

Shape and evolve our agile delivery tooling and frameworks across the initiative lifecycle

• Drive greater alignment, effectiveness and efficiency

• Mentor and coach Iteration Managers, Head of Product and Senior Engineering Managers to build their agile delivery capability

• Manage the publishing delivery plan

• Ensure effective execution through dependency management, risk analysis, release planning and measurement models

• Work with the stakeholders to continuously improve ways of working for the publishing portfolio

Qualifications

What we would like to see:

• Successful track record as senior Scrum Master (or equivalent) across multiple teams

• Experience mentoring and coaching Scrum Masters/Iteration Managers, tech and product managers

• Experience in creating, maintaining and improving end to end focus of agile practices, principles and organisational agility

• Skilled in managing group dynamics and facilitation with senior stakeholders

• Experience in different agile delivery practices and frameworks;
  team and scaled

• Working in and around product and development teams

• Working in a technical environment, able to translate product aspirations and strategic goals into delivery plans

• Desirable skills:
  Media industry and Atlassian JIRA, including Advanced Roadmaps

Additional Information

Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you'll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:

• Career development and quality training

• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer's parental leave

• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym

• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer:
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Work rights:
Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.