Project Agile coach

The IT Agile Coach / Project Manager is a senior delivery professional responsible for improving organisational agility and supporting strategic delivery. The role is approximately 70% Agile coaching and 30% project management, focused on helping leaders, Product Owners and delivery teams adopt Lean-Agile practices that improve collaboration, value delivery and continuous improvement.

Within Information & Digital Engineering (IDE), the role builds Agile capability while providing project management support to deliver outcomes with appropriate governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.

 

Key Accountabilities

 

Agile Coaching and Capability Building

Coach leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams in Lean-Agile practices.

Assess ways of working and identify improvement opportunities.

Build capability through mentoring, facilitation, training and communities of practice.

Promote servant leadership, transparency, accountability and continuous improvement.

Support leaders in enabling Agile ways of working.

 

Team and Delivery Effectiveness

 

Facilitate planning, retrospectives, dependency workshops and multi-team events.

Improve prioritisation, backlog quality and outcome-focused delivery.

Identify and address impediments, risks and dependencies.

Use delivery metrics to support continuous improvement.

Partner with product, engineering, architecture and business stakeholders to align delivery with business goals.

 

Project Delivery and Governance

 

Lead projects and delivery initiatives through the appropriate lifecycle.

Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality and benefits.

Establish effective governance and reporting.

Ensure compliance with delivery and assurance standards.

Communicate progress, risks, decisions and actions clearly.

 

Leadership and Community Contribution

 

Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.

Influence and challenge constructively using evidence and judgement.

Support high-performing teams through coaching and collaboration.

Contribute to Agile and Delivery Management communities of practice.

Mentor Agile practitioners and project managers.