Coordinator - Scrum Master at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa\'s leading cellular telecommunications company. On May 16, 2001, MTN became the first GSM network to make a call following the globally lauded Nigerian GSM auction conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission earlier in the year. Thereafter the company launched full commercial operations beginning with Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. MTN paid $285m for one of four GSM licenses in Nigeria in January 2001. To date, in excess of US$1.8 billion has been invested building mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria. Since launch in August 2001, MTN has steadily deployed its services across Nigeria. It now provides services in 223 cities and towns, more than 10,000 villages and communities and a growing number of highways across the country, spanning the 36 states of the Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Many of these villages and communities are being connected to the world of telecommunications for the first time ever. The company\'s digital microwave transmission backbone, the 3,400 Kilometre Y\'elloBahn was commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo in January 2003 and is reputed to be the most extensive digital microwave transmission infrastructure in all of Africa. The Y\'elloBahn has significantly helped to enhance call quality on MTN network.

Reports To: Manager Agile Delivery

Division: Information Technology

Mission

• To provide comprehensive assistance in business change requests initiation, planning, execution, control and closure to facilitate IT agile deliveries.
• To help facilitate scrum to the larger team by ensuring the scrum framework is followed.

Description

• Assist in compiling project charter including projecting project scope, problem statement and goal statemen
• Coordinate all Scrum activities including sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups for assigned teams
• Work with the Product owner to define Product roadmap for the Tribes, handle backlogs and new requests
• Coach team members on Agile frameworks and practices
• Act as the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments, contribute to establishing the Sprint Goal; monitor Sprint Progress; 
• Ensure adherence to all PSCOM processes towards delivering Epics and User stories 
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
• Measure, analyse, and report on progress per Scrum team by identifying team velocity, story-points, estimation, Burndown Charts, Burn Up Charts and other agreed parameters
• Gather relevant status and assist in providing with up-to-date information on all active sprint deliverables (where applicable) to Agile Manager
• Track sprint activities in compliance with planning guidelines and plans
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint 
• Develop Sprint plans for all assigned scrum team 
• Schedule and track quality assurance reviews within the Scrum team and assist with formal success reviews
• Prepare and circulate status update reports including burndown chart, burn-up chart 
• Track and monitor identified risks and proactively escalate risks in accordance with related escalation rules (where applicable) and procedures.

Education:

• First degree in any related discipline 
• Certification in Agile practices (e.g.  PSMi, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CSM, ICP)
• Fluent in English

Experience:

3 - 7 years of experience which includes;

• Experience working in a small to medium organization
• Candidates must have good use of computer and JIRA + Confluence software packages
• Experience in managing small to medium sized teams 

Method of Application