Scrum Master

About Us

The G’day Group comprises three leading Australian tourism brands in Discovery Parks, G’day Parks and loyalty program G’day Rewards. Employing more than 2,200 people Australia-wide, G’day Group has a truly national footprint of over 300 holiday parks, including 85 fully owned and operated parks and resorts. The largest park network in the country, we’re about authentic Australian holiday experiences and inviting all Aussies to say g’day to more of Australia.

We’re on a journey of growth and evolution to reshape the industry, offering the best customer experience underpinned by the best technology. Each year, we showcase the true Australia to millions of guests, and we are the co-custodians of some of the country’s most treasured places; a privilege we don’t take lightly. With eyes on domestic and regional tourism like never before, we are building a passionate, adaptable, high-performance team to create holiday memories that put a smile in every g’day.

The Role

Our software engineering teams have built some of Australia’s most popular websites and apps, with millions of unique visitors each year to our digital platforms. The G'day Group is undergoing a significant period of growth and is investing in technology and business processes to ensure we can provide market leading digital experiences for our customers. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to be part of a team delivering solutions for a state-of-the-art ecosystem that is transforming the regional accommodation industry.

Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for agile teams named Squads, whose primary responsibility is assisting the self-organising, self-managing squad to achieve its goals. They coach their squad on organisation ensuring that the agreed quality and agile processes are being followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

The Scrum Masters focus is on optimising performance, working between the product owner and the squad to ensure consistent, successful sprints. Scrum masters also own cross-squad coordination so that the squad can focus on product development as well as act as an agile coach for the larger organisation, helping the squad adopt and own agile practices through the product lifecycle.

Your role responsibilities will include:

·      Ensure that sprint goals and product goals are understood by everyone within the squad

·      Lead and coach the squad in its agile adoption

·      Provide a safe and trusted environment that fosters on-going learning and growth

·      Ensure squad events including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective are well facilitated and productive

·      Assist in providing visibility, progress and transparency towards sprint goals to the wider organisation

·      Continuous engagement in challenging the status-quo of squad and organisational process to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and throughput

·      Support the squad in preparation for multi-squad activities, including big room planning, multi squad sprint reviews and retrospectives

·      Engaging with key stakeholders (internal and external) to ensure alignment of squad backlog, adequate capturing and communication of impediments, risks and chan

·      Exhibit, role model & promote the agile mindset values, principles, behaviours & ways of working

·      Supports the squad to embrace the core values, adopt and apply agile principles, and implement agreed agile practices

Your Experience

Relevant tertiary qualifications, combined with working knowledge of various agile frameworks. Knowledge of development and operational value streams in agile delivery. Strong understanding of the scrum master role and its servant lead responsibilities.

To be successful in this role you will have exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal. You will be flexible and adaptable, able to work in a rapidly changing environment. Your stakeholder management skills are critical to your success. Your collaborative style is a natural strength, as is your business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.

You will possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, autonomy, initiative, and attention to detail to be successful in meeting the business demands at G’Day Group. Your naturally upbeat and open style will fit our cultural values. You will have a highly organised mindset with the ability to assess the urgency of work allocated to you by various stakeholders.

G’Day Group is a dynamic company with an energetic ‘market disrupter’ reputation. If you are passionate, adventurous, and ready to hit the ground running, we want to hear from you.

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Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing – Flexible and hybrid working arrangements / Employee Assistance Program / Discounted private health cover / BeWell Training Program / Weekly yoga and walking group / Free annual flu vaccinations
• Leave Policies – Parental leave / Volunteer leave / Study leave 
• Professional Development – Leadership programs / Support of external training courses / Reimbursement of professional memberships
• Employee Savings – Discounted accommodation and experience rates / Salary packaging / Discovery partner discounts/ Free G’day Rewards membership / Loyalty recognition benefits

Our ESG statement

The G’day Group acknowledges the increasing global expectation to demonstrate our approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk factors and sustainability in our daily operations and ongoing decision making. Our five-year ESG strategy is evolving to ensure we are committed to growing with care through supporting our people, giving back to the communities we operate in, and protecting our environment.

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