Scrum Master

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Scrum Master for initial 9 month contracts with potential to extend on a rate of £461/day (Inside IR35). These roles will be hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days per week in their Glasgow office.

Responsibilities:

• The Scrum Master will be responsible for enabling effective Agile delivery by coaching teams, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• The Scrum Master will support one or more multidisciplinary Agile delivery teams to deliver high quality outcomes aligned with organisational goals and Agile best practices.
• Working closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, Developers, Business Analysts, and wider stakeholders, the Scrum Master will ensure that Agile principles are understood and applied consistently, while helping teams improve flow, predictability, and value delivery.

Essential Skills:

• Facilitating Scrum events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, ensuring meetings are effective and outcome focused.
• Coaching Agile delivery teams in Scrum practices, values, and principles, supporting team maturity and self organisation.
• Identifying, tracking, and actively removing impediments and blockers that impact team progress or delivery outcomes.
• Working with Data Product Owners & other data specialists to support backlog refinement, prioritisation, and clear definition of sprint goals and acceptance criteria.
• Promoting continuous improvement through retrospectives, metrics, and actionable improvement plans.
• Protecting the team from external distractions and unplanned work, enabling focus and sustainable delivery.
• Supporting Agile planning and delivery practices, including estimation techniques, capacity planning, and dependency management.
• Using Agile metrics (e.g. velocity, cycle time, throughput) to support transparency, forecasting, and data informed conversations.
• Encouraging collaboration, openness, and constructive challenge within the team and across stakeholders.
• Supporting organisational Agile adoption by sharing best practices, mentoring others, and contributing to Agile communities of practice.
• Coaching and facilitation, with the ability to influence without authority.
• Working with Agile delivery metrics and using data to support team improvement.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders effectively.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary Agile teams across the delivery lifecycle, from discovery through to live service.
• Using Agile tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence) for backlog management and reporting.
• 2-5+ years’ experience working in a Scrum Master or similar Agile delivery management role is expected.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.