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The Agile Team Facilitator (ATF) contractor in Washington, DC will support the establishment and stabilization of Agile, flow‑based working practices for a major cross‑functional business initiative within client publications. This initiative involves redesigning a complex process and requires coordination across multiple vendors, teams, and business stakeholders. The ATF will report into the Transformation department, and is responsible for creating clarity, maintaining flow, coordinating work, and enabling the team to make steady progress.
Job Responsibility:
Facilitate team working sessions, backlog refinement, planning discussions, and retrospectives to maintain alignment and momentum
Promote healthy collaboration and team dynamics, ensuring members have clarity on priorities, commitments, and next steps
Reinforce Lean‑Agile and flow-based practices appropriate for a cross-functional business initiative
Help the team adopt consistent, predictable working rhythms as they define and decompose the initiative roadmap
Ensure consistent and transparent tracking of work in Jira, maintaining a visible picture of priorities, progress, risks, and dependencies
Facilitate backlog refinement
surface gaps in ticket clarity without owning ticket content
Ensure work meets the Definition of Ready before being included in planning or iteration cycles
Partner with Transformation team members to reinforce Jira best practices and flow-based tracking approaches
Identify and surface risks and blockers early
coordinate with the RTE to resolve ART- or cross-team‑level risks
Track and communicate cross-team dependencies that impact initiative sequencing and roadmap feasibility
Support the team in preparing clear risk inputs for Pre‑PI and PI planning activities
Ensure initiative work remains aligned to strategic goals, ART-level objectives, and roadmap commitments through close partnership with the RTE and initiative leadership
Coordinate with business leaders, functional partners, and vendors as needed to ensure visibility and flow (without owning vendor management)
Promote data-driven improvement by helping the team understand key flow indicators and progress metrics
Requirements:
5+ years of experience in Agile environments, preferably as a Scrum Master, Agile Project Lead, Facilitator, or similar role supporting cross-functional teams
Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills
ability to work with team members contributing part-time
Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and the ability to reinforce effective team habits
Experience using Jira for tracking work and facilitating flow
comfort with identifying gaps and surfacing improvements
Demonstrated ability to identify risks and dependencies and coordinate with senior roles to resolve issues