Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: Up to £85,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits

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Our Team
We have a great opportunity to join our Agile Coaching Office team. We’re on a mission to ensure all our colleagues have the frameworks, practices, tools and support to set them up for success. We love to see our colleagues grow, evolve and build long and successful careers, while making customers happier about money, and that’s where you come in!

In a nutshell, as an Agile Coach within the coaching office you will enable an organisation-wide agile transformation. To champion and embed the agile ways of working within the organisation and lead the continuous improvement in key areas. You’ll be coaching across disciplines to drive effective agile software development practices and help to embed agile ways of working ensuring consistency of standards across all our Tribes. You will support the tribe leadership, Scrum Master, Squads and Product Owners as well as wider bank colleagues when required. You’ll be a superb coach and leader, driving effective communication and rapid problem solving to deliver our transformation goals.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver agile capability services such as foundational skills training in Scrum and Kanban through strong training, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Champion and lead the mindset changes and belief re-sets required to affect the desired cultural transformation
• Ensure an increase in organisational agile capability through skills practice and knowledge acquisition
• Support teams / Tribes to scale safely and effectively in a measured way
• Align coaching style and interventions with the overall organisational and Tribe’s business goals to support savvy backlog management and forward momentum around the next most important needs
• Providing guidance and support to strategic leaders when implementing a business change/transformation programme using agile methodologies
• Coaching multiple teams, ensuring alignment to organisation and programme goals and outcomes

We need you to have

• Proven track record of coaching teams in Agile practices and establishing & evolving the Agile methodology of an organisation to deliver max business value on time
• Proven ability to promote innovative thinking, self-organisation and continuous improvement within the team
• Previous experience of designing and delivering interactive and engaging training
• Knowledge and experience of relevant domain/products/journeys and Agile Software Development Lifecycle
• The ability to identify and facilitate to; effectively resolve conflicts before they become an issue, manage complex dependencies and removal of impediments
• Ability to use data, metrics and insights to identify and measure improvement opportunities
• The ability to coach and collaborate at all levels of an organisation – individual and team, leadership etc
• The ability to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable and effective working environment and relationships

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Infrastructure or Software Delivery expertise or teams design / OKR and Transformation experience
• Qualifications in Scrum, Kanban, scaling frameworks and professional coaching

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.