Agile Practitioner

**Be inspired everyday - let your work make a difference**
**#Superwithimpact**
More than one million Australians trust HESTA with their money. HESTA is a top-performing industry super fund working for real-world impact. We use our expertise and influence to deliver strong long-term returns while accelerating our contribution to a more sustainable world.
HESTA is also an inspiring and rewarding place to work. That's because what we do makes a difference to the lives of our members. The people who work at HESTA are not only exceptional at what they do, they're focused on living and creating a strong organisational culture. We're an industry super fund dedicated to the people who keep our communities going. People who provide some of the best health, education and community services in the world are HESTA members - and we are proud to serve them.

**The opportunity - 'Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life' #careerswithimpact**

**Elevate Our Agile Journey**

Are you an experienced Agile Practitioner ready to embed agile practices, principles, and tools within our in-flight projects? Join our dynamic team and work closely with the project teams to ensure the right techniques and tools are being used, the cadence is appropriate, and our agile maturity is continuously evolving.

**Please note this is a 12 month maximum term contract.**

In this key role, you will combine your Scrum Master experience & strong coaching skill as you embed yourself within our project teams to drive agility and continuous improvement. You will focus on maturing our ways of working through data-informed progress—analysing burndown charts, velocity, and more.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Facilitate agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews to ensure the smooth execution of agile practices.
- Coach and mentor the team on agile principles, practices, and mindsets to help them adopt and embrace agile ways of working.
- Remove impediments and blockers to enable efficient team execution.
- Ensure transparency by maintaining information radiators like task boards and burndown charts.
- Continuously improve processes and practices based on feedback and retrospectives.

**You will**:

- Have demonstrated experience embedding & uplifting Agile practices within the financial services sector.
- Have worked on large & complex programs of work.

Your core focus will be establishing the right cadence for our sprint activities and ensuring time is effectively spent during these sessions. Through your guidance and expertise, you will help elevate our team's agile maturity and comfort level, enabling us to become a centre of excellence known for our agility and ability to deliver value rapidly and iteratively.

**Benefits that matter and make a difference for our employees**
- **Leave for those moments that matter, **an additional 6 days of leave at the end of year, up to 6 days paid volunteer leave, gender neutral paid parental leave of 20 weeks, Gender Affirmation leave, reproductive health and wellbeing leave, Cultural and Ceremonial leave. Access your LSL after 3 years, take AL at half pay, and purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave (just to name a few).
- **Your Professional development matters, **up to $5k per year professional development and up to 8 days professional development leave, HESTA scholarships and free access to a range of premium learning tools.
- **Your health and wellbeing matters, **free annual flu shots and skin checks, incredible social events throughout the year and a comprehensive employee assistance program available 24/7.
- **Your financial wellbeing matters, **15% super, financial planning support, end of year payment for all Enterprise Agreement-covered employees, incentivised Employee Referral Program and novated lease options.

Please note: Applications via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position
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