Join us as an Agile Coach/Consultant with Capita Public
(Hybrid 2-3 days in the office, Portsmouth and London - Full-time, Permanent)
 
About Capita
At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance, and other private sector organizations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight, and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever ??? and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.
 
About Capita Public Consult and Transport
Capita Public Consult and Transport is multi-disciplinary team of self-sufficient disrupters, operating like an innovation-first start-up with the financial backing of a large corporation. Driven by lean and agile methodology, we will encourage you to suggest creative solutions for how we work together and meet our customer???s needs. We refuse to lose the start-up ethos we were built on, hosting regular social hours, and promoting a lively, easy-going workplace environment. 
You???ll be exposed to a variety of customer-facing delivery projects with the purpose of improving society. Our citizen centric approach gives us a user-obsessed mentality while also prioritising excellent customer experience. This creates the perfect hub to develop your credentials as an expert in your field. 
We are proud to be able to provide an opportunity for the team to work in projects which make a difference in the public sector. The projects that we work on impact and improve the experience of citizens in the UK and beyond.  
 
Role of the Agile Coach/Consultant
Capita Public Consult & Transform works across UK public sector delivering better outcomes for UK citizens and government organisations. The Agile practice sits at the heart of digital transformation agenda for Capita clients as well as internal departments.
As an Agile Training Coach, you have extensive experience in delivering agile training, coaching, assessments, and transformation programmes across the public or private sector and are responsible for the successful delivery of projects reporting to the lead coach.

The role of Agile Training Coach is to take responsibility for elements of a larger consulting engagement and collaborate with clients and delivery partners as part of formal or informal consultancy engagements. Agile Training Coaches play an active role in enabling Defence and other sector leaders, managers and teams understand and apply Scrum to the challenges they face.  Training Coaches work mostly onsite at locations in central London, greater London, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall.

You show deep expertise of Agile methodologies, specifically Scrum@Scale as well as an attitude of getting the job done whilst continuously building relationships with client and delivery partners, you do this in line with Capita values of openness, integrity, collaboration, and effectiveness.

You show leadership in engagements as well as an attitude of getting the job done whilst continuously building relationships with client and delivery partners, you do this in line with Capita values of openness, integrity, collaboration, and effectiveness.


Responsibilities:
 

Working with delivery partners to understand our client???s business context and priorities Deliver Agility programmes in a senior capacity based on client needs including Scrum@Scale, SAFe and Lean methodologies Work with colleagues across the business to design and deliver enterprise-wide Agile transformations, or to work in more targeted areas supporting teams, or teams of teams to adopt Agile ways of working  Supporting the delivery of classroom training in ScrumInc???s Scrum curriculum Teaching elements of ScrumInc???s training courses Coaching course attendees in the practical application of ScrumInc???s teaching both during the training sessions, in subsequent follow-up activities and in ad-hoc, informal sessions Rapidly grasp our client???s domain of expertise, core challenges and organisational ambitions Place client need at the centre of your thinking, working with colleagues to shape Lean/Agile approaches to solve qualified and prioritised needs Design, lead and support Lean/Agile workshops Assess, implement and coach Lean/Agile ways of working for clients Cultivate Lean/Agile learning and development, through one-to-one coaching Foster Lean/Agile ways of working, and champion a mindset of continuous improvement to enable positive cultural change, both with clients and across the business Effectively communicate Agile principles and practices in a simple and effective way Contribute to the development of Agile tools and materials Be skilled in the use of Agile tools e.g. Azure Dev Opps or JIRA

Skills & Experience

Agile expert Willingness to travel Coaching skills Training and development Planning and delivery Governance Scrum experience Data Management and sensitivity Stakeholder Management and engagement Client relationship management SCRUM Commercial management Working at client sites UK Public /Defence sector experience - you have worked with UK government clients or in a similar environment and are passionate about the industry.

Please note, successful candidates will be expected to go through vetting and Security Clearance. 
 
We look forward to hearing from you and wish you the very best of luck with your application.