Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Transformation Operations Directors Office

Permanent

Office location: ITV White City - Hybrid Working (2 days a week)

Hiring range: £80,000 - £90,000 per annum

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

We recognise that organisational agility is key in providing true value to our customers and business. Operating at an enterprise level, this role has been created to work with leadership and the wider ITV community to champion change at scale, introduce and mature good agile practices, and establish strong feedback loops at all levels.

Reporting to the Group Head of Agile Delivery, we are recruiting an Agile Coach to join our Transformation Operations Directors' office. The Agile Coach will be expected to leverage their specialist experience to coach and tailor approaches across the business to oversee the change and evolvement of their practices & processes. Agile spans the entirety of ITV so offers an excellent opportunity to have a broad impact.

As an Agile Coach, You’ll be working with teams, business stakeholders and executive sponsors to provide tailored training, coaching, and guidance on the ITV frameworks, toolkit, and good agile practices. This could include:

• Partnering with the Group Head of Agile Delivery to plan, prioritise and execute scaled practices.
• Co-chair ITV’s agile centre of excellence (CoE), bringing together representatives from across the organisation to act as a guiding coalition for experiments and change initiatives at scale.
• Build and maintain the agile community portal, collating training information, ITV’s framework guidance and other practical resources.
• Establish and grow communities of practice to support continuous improvement and innovation.
• Leverage self-assessments, coaching observations, reporting, and other mechanisms to understand agile maturity.
• Demystify agile and drive actionable improvement through simple language, proactive identification of anti-patterns and other organisational impediments.

Join ITV’s Transformation Office, Impact Millions!

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Significant experience building and embedding agile change across multiple organisational contexts in an Agile Coach, Scrum Master and/or equivalent capacity.
• True passion for your craft, constantly broadening your horizons and motivating others with little direction.
• Ability to meet coachees a “half-step ahead” and move between teaching, coaching, and advisory stances as appropriate.
• Capability of clearly and concisely articulating the business value of organisational agility and supporting practices according to audience.
• Proficient in facilitating workshops and training at a multi-team level and with senior stakeholders.
• Understanding of different scaling frameworks and applications in a large-scale organisation.
• Experience in building successful, resilient communities of practice.
• Adept at managing change and conflict resolution across different stakeholder groups with competing demands.
• Knowledge of product management and its relationship with agile practices.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Prior experience leading or participating within an Agile CoE.
• Competent with supporting workflow management and reporting through Jira and Confluence.
• Professional, industry recognised accreditations in coaching and scaled frameworks, e.g. CLP, Scrum@Scale Practitioner, SPS, SPC, ICF-ACC, ICE-AC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF.

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

More about our benefits

Closing date: Friday 22nd March 2024