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Iteration Manager I

Who We Are:

About IMG Academy

IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy offers an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences, providing growth opportunities for all student-athletes through:

Boarding school and camps, via a 600-acre state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Fla. (
IMGAcademy.com
)
Online coaching via the IMG Academy+ brand, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance (
IMGAcademy.com/Plus
)
Online college recruiting, via the NCSA brand, providing content, tools, coaching and access to a network of 40,000 college coaches (
ncsasports.org
)

Our team has a deep appreciation for the transformative power of sports and holistic personal development. Our leadership is actively investing in the growth of the organization. We continue to broaden and deepen our technology platform and team in pursuit of our vision for empowering youth sports and the path-to-college for student-athletes.

Position Summary:

The Iteration Manager I helps NCSA build high performing software and infrastructure teams to

deliver high-value products, platform components and projects using Agile development methodologies. The Iteration Manager I role is an entry level role which focuses on the responsibilities of a scrum/kanban facilitator while building towards the role of an organizational leader and a developer of team capacities. Your mission is to both protect teams and hold them accountable, by ensuring the psychological health of their members while ensuring delivery and quality. As a member of each team’s triumvirate, you will serve alongside the Product Owner and Technical Lead on one or more development teams, shepherding the team’s development, implementing continuous improvement in process and communication, and educating the team in Lean and Agile methodology, practices, and values.

The ideal candidate embodies the five values of scrum: focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect. While they may not have direct experience as an agile facilitator, they have experience working collaboratively in a team environment and a strong understanding of the importance of transparency, vulnerability, diversity of perspective, accountability, and effective communication. They have a demonstrated history of curiosity and continuous improvement and are seen as a leader at their level.

Position Responsibilities:

Team Development: Assist in developing a strong, self-sustaining team with rich and comprehensive software development practices around communication, estimation, planning, prioritization, and delivery.
Nurture team health by demonstrating vulnerability in leadership, holding team members accountable for their actions, and ensuring a structured process is used to capture and share feedback within and outside the team.
Leveraging NCSA’s established set of agile practices, maintain an open and transparent set of facilitation practices for clear communication of backlog, workload, throughput, and velocity, with clear metrics on delivery and milestones.
Facilitation: Facilitates all team meetings, including daily stand-up, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
Supports the Product Owner and/or Platform Lead in their efforts to facilitate a healthy team dynamic around scope and prioritization.
Supports the Technical Lead in their efforts to build iteratively with good technical decision-making and the acknowledgment of trade-offs to avoid or accept technical debt.
Provide checks and balances between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency.
Supports the Team by escalating or removing impediments that prevent them from delivering work.
Ensures transparency into the team’s work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other metrics.
Portfolio Management: With support, coordinates multiple teams towards on-time delivery of committed work.
Supports inter-team prioritization based on software and project dependencies.
Utilizes project management skills including as applicable preparing project plans, meeting agendas, meeting follow-up and decision documentation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Ability to coach teams to greater health and performance
Proven ability to get things done within a team environment.
Proven ability to work effectively in fast-paced, ever-changing, growth-stage organizations.
Ability to inspire, motivate by example, and manage change.
Baseline understanding of Agile methodologies and software development.
Demonstrated willingness to grow and learn.
Superior visual, verbal, and textual communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
Experience working in a fast-paced environment requiring collaboration across teams.
Some experience in project management/coordination, facilitation, or on process improvement
Experience with a mix of start-up and/or growth-stage organizations preferred

Background Requirements:

Requires a background check upon offer

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfect with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Get to know us better:

https://www.ncsasports.org/who-is-ncsa

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IMG Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.