Agile Coach

As an Agile Coach at CERN, you will coach, mentor, and train teams and business partners on lean-agile practices in software development, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will contribute to business transformation projects involving ERP and Human Capital Management systems, driving agile maturity and lean portfolio management within the Business Computing group.

Responsibilities

• Cooperate in coordinating the business transformation projects.
• Train individuals and teams in agile techniques and frameworks.
• Design a strategy for improving collaboration and flow of information between software development teams and business stakeholders.
• Coach and facilitate agile workshops for product teams, business representatives, and other stakeholders on Lean/Agile practices and tools.
• Work with the Lean/Agile Chapter to increase knowledge of Lean/Agile Practices, ensuring the organisation is at the forefront of industry best practices.
• Promote an agile mindset and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• You must be a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State, excluding Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot and Croatian nationals due to Associate Membership Agreement ceilings.
• By the application deadline, you must have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation; a bachelor’s degree alone is not sufficient.
• You must have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Experience working with Scrum teams in a scaled Agile context.
• Experience with Product Management frameworks.
• Experience with business transformation projects such as ERP or HCM implementations.
• Studies focused on Computer Science or Organizational Psychology.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of scaled Agile frameworks and how to put them into practice.
• Agile certifications such as Scrum Master or Leading SAFe.
• Design thinking skills.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Skills

• Scrum
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Product Management
• Business Transformation Projects
• ERP Implementation
• HCM Implementation
• Agile Coaching
• Lean-Agile Practices
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Design Thinking
• Facilitation
• Organizational Skills
• Agile Product Certification
• Scrum Master
• Leading SAFe

Languages

English, French