Agile Coach

About This Role

An Agile Coach supports an enterprise-level program within a federal environment, providing coaching, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams, leaders, and stakeholders in the adoption of Agile and Lean principles. This role drives organizational Agile transformation by establishing effective processes for managing portfolios of work, improving team performance, and embedding an Agile culture across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams, leaders, and stakeholders in the adoption of Agile and Lean principles, practices, and methodologies
• Drive organizational Agile transformation by establishing effective processes for managing portfolios of work, improving team performance, and embedding an Agile culture across the organization
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, workshops, and knowledge-sharing activities
• Address impediments and improve team roles, behaviors, collaboration, and delivery practices
• Establish and maintain meaningful metrics, requirements, and reporting processes to provide stakeholders with accurate project and program status
• Promote effective cross-team coordination, program management, governance, and continuous improvement across digital service delivery
• Develop internal coaching capabilities
• Provide executive coaching and strategic guidance to support sustained Agile adoption and organizational maturity

Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree
• Five (5) years of relevant experience
• Scrum Alliance Enterprise Coach or equivalent
• Relevant certification from nationally recognized technical authority
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean methodologies, frameworks, ceremonies, portfolio management, governance, and digital service delivery practices
• Understanding of Agile team structures, roles, behaviors, performance metrics, and organizational change management
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, facilitation, workshops, and applying Agile practices to improve team performance and delivery
• Skilled in establishing Agile processes, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing delivery activities, and supporting knowledge sharing
• Ability to drive organizational adoption of Agile practices and foster a collaborative, continuous-improvement culture
• Ability to communicate project and program status, define meaningful performance metrics, and guide stakeholders and staff in effective Agile delivery practices
• Required to stand, walk and sit; communicate verbally both in person and by telephone; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus