Scrum Master

**Company Description**
Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

**Closing date: 20th June 2025**

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies
- ** Current Scum Master with experience of Website & Digital Development required**:

- ** 24 Month Fixed Term Contract**:

- ** Immediate Start**

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

**The Scrum Master has two main accountabilities**:

- Successfully embedding scrum in two new teams.
- Coaching the teams to ensure Product Owner can successfully deliver business outcomes.

The role is to provide servant leadership to a cross-functional team who will be developing changes to Rest’s digital channels and platforms to support the delivery of Rests ‘Super Simple’ strategy. The scrum master will ensure that new delivery governance is being for the teams including alignment of the product backlog to overall organisational strategy.

**Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities**
- ** Perform the role of team facilitator**: responsible for facilitating the Scrum meetings including daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives meetings. The primary focus is to help the team stay focused and productive during these meetings.
- ** Perform the role of Servant Leader**: The primary focus is to serve the Scrum team, which includes removing any impediments or obstacles that the team may encounter during the sprint.
- ** Ensure Project Governance is followed**:Adherence to Rest delivery methodology and governance framework to ensure stakeholders have a clear understanding of their role and that the required decision making and escalation processes are in place to help achieve the required outcomes. This includes financial, risk and benefit management aligned with target operating model.
- Working with the Product Owner and team to ensure the **product roadmap and backlog** has been developed and broken down into epics with actionable user stories

**Qualifications**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications & certifications
- Scrum Master Certification

**Required experience, understanding or credentials**including**:

- At least 2 years scrum master experience
- Experience as a scrum master on a digital product team
- Strong scrum master capability including demonstrated ability to lead teams and implement technology led solutions.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, consultation and negotiation skills
- Able to foster and maintain collaborative working relationships both within and outside the organisation.
- Knowledge of the Superannuation and/or Financial Services Industries, key technical trends and understanding of how the technology systems and solutions support business operations.

**Additional Information**
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

- Personal and professional development opportunities
- ** Hybrid working**:

- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Linkedin Learning
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)
- ** Rest Stops - meeting free breaks**
- Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best. _

**Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.**
- _Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a _Responsible Investment Leader_ by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022._