Role purpose: The Agile Coach will work within the Lean Agile Centre of Excellence within the Digital & IT Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation team and will train and coach delivery teams in agile ways of working; the role will also provide training and coaching to other functions supporting Digital & IT as needed, e.g. Finance and our senior leadership team. In this role, you will help teams embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe principles and implement SAFe practices. You act as facilitator and continuously engage in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity.Key accountabilities and decision ownership: Support the agile transformation and guide delivery teams through the agile journey and maturity growth by Coaching each local market to increase their maturity against the 7 Key Scaled Agile competencies Contributing to a comprehensive SAFe curriculum in collaboration with Grow with Vodafone/Vodafone University and other LACE functions Defining standards and creating playbooks for agile ceremonies, e.g. PI-Planning, daily stand-ups, Portfolio Syncs, etc Provide training and coaching on agile ways of working and adoption of SAFe to all relevant stakeholders and teams Train and coach delivery functions on agile principles, practices, roles, artefacts and ceremonies to maintain consistency of adoption and continuously improve performance Manage and facilitate knowledge sharing of best practices throughout the organisation and capture it in a useable, easily accessible format for all Facilitate the usage of agile adoption measurements to evaluate and report the performance and adherence of the organisation on a regular basis Data-driven assessment of agile maturity across markets Data-driven assessment of delivery performance Coach and guide delivery functions on an on-going basisCore competencies, knowledge and experience : Demonstrable experience of coaching and leading teams in adopting and implementing Agile methodologies Sufficient SAFE knowledge and experience to complete the Safe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate if required Practical experience in at least one IT domain (development, testing, DevOps, Agile team leadership) Ability to inspire, coach and motivate remote multi-national teams Ability to continue to monitor, learn and implement best practices via Agile communities of practice Knowledge of current & evolving Agile methodologies and tools Ability to understand, support and articulate complex business change processes, data-sets and governanceMust have technical / professional qualifications: A STEM/Commercial degree or equivalent Intermediate or Advanced SAFe Certificate; SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate desirable but not essential Knowledge and experience of working in an agile role, e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile PM, Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach Knowledge and experience of working in a LACE structure Experience in complex organizations with distributed responsibilities or with an international environmentMust have technical / professional qualifications: A STEM/Commercial degree or equivalent Intermediate or Advanced SAFe Certificate; SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate desirable but not essential Knowledge and experience of working in an agile role, e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile PM, Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach Knowledge and experience of working in a LACE structure Experience in complex organizations with distributed responsibilities or with an international environment#_VOIS#WeMoveTheWorld#MoveWithUs