Position: Junior Scrum Master / project Manager
Number of hours: TBA
Schedule: EST
Responsibilities:
- Assist in facilitating Agile ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Track sprint progress, project milestones, and team deliverables.
- Help identify and remove minor impediments affecting team productivity, escalating complex issues when necessary.
- Maintain project plans, sprint boards, backlogs, and project documentation.
- Support PMO reporting by preparing project status updates, dashboards, and meeting minutes.
- Coordinate with developers, QA, designers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure effective communication.
- Monitor task assignments and follow up on action items.
- Ensure Agile processes and team workflows are followed consistently.
- Assist in managing project risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Contribute to documentation, process improvements, and knowledge sharing.
- Support simple feature delivery, documentation updates, bug tracking, and basic testing coordination when assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
- 1–2 years of experience in Agile project coordination, Scrum, Project Management, or PMO support.
- Basic understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, Asana, or ClickUp.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Certifications:
- Scrum Foundations
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Technical Skills:
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Sprint Planning & Backlog Management
- Jira / Azure DevOps / Trello / ClickUp
- Project Documentation
- PMO Reporting
- Microsoft Office / Google Workspace
- Risk & Issue Tracking
- Basic SDLC Knowledge
