Job Vacancy Agile Coach
Cambridge (CB2 8BS)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Job position Agile Coach
As soon as possible
£66,900-89,550
CB2 8BS, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Published on 14/10/2025
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Job Title: Agile Coach
Salary: £66,900 - £89,550
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
We're looking for an Agile Coach to play a pivotal role in shaping how we deliver technology and value across our Core Technology group. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you'll combine strategic influence with practical coaching-mentoring teams, embedding Agile practices, and driving a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. You'll have the opportunity to lead change, strengthen delivery excellence, and ensure our teams are empowered, adaptive, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for our learners and customers worldwide.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the Role
The purpose of this role is to embed Agile principles across multiple Core Technology teams and foster a culture of collaboration, enabling high-performing teams and delivering customer value.
As a core member of our team, you will:
Salary: £66,900 - £89,550
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
We're looking for an Agile Coach to play a pivotal role in shaping how we deliver technology and value across our Core Technology group. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you'll combine strategic influence with practical coaching-mentoring teams, embedding Agile practices, and driving a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. You'll have the opportunity to lead change, strengthen delivery excellence, and ensure our teams are empowered, adaptive, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for our learners and customers worldwide.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the Role
The purpose of this role is to embed Agile principles across multiple Core Technology teams and foster a culture of collaboration, enabling high-performing teams and delivering customer value.
As a core member of our team, you will:
- Champion Agile ways of working across multiple teams, guiding individuals and groups to adopt and improve Agile practices and mindsets to deliver customer value.
- Coach and mentor Scrum Masters and delivery teams, promoting shared learning, and best practice.
- Drive continuous improvement, encouraging experimentation and optimising Agile processes to deliver working software effectively.
- Develop and standardise metrics to measure performance and value, using insights to inform improvement.
- Evolve Agile tools and practices, ensuring teams have the frameworks and systems they need to deliver efficiently.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate technical roadmaps into measurable business outcomes and embed Agile thinking beyond technology.
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration and adaptivity, encouraging joined-up problem-solving across teams.
- Communicate effectively at all levels, ensuring alignment on priorities and progress.
- You may also lead one Scrum team, depending on organisational needs.
Candidate profile
About you
We're seeking an experienced Agile Coach with a strong track record of guiding teams, shaping culture, and enabling high performance in complex environments.
You'll bring:
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for XXXX Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
We're seeking an experienced Agile Coach with a strong track record of guiding teams, shaping culture, and enabling high performance in complex environments.
You'll bring:
- Extensive Agile expertise - Proven experience with Agile frameworks, along with hands-on coaching of teams.
- Transformation experience - Demonstrated success in leading Agile adoption and delivering measurable improvements in delivery performance, collaboration, and business outcomes.
- Servant leadership mindset - Skilled at building trust, fostering autonomy, and enabling self-organising, high-performing teams.
- Continuous improvement focus - Proven ability to embed practices that drive lasting, measurable improvement.
- Technical and business fluency - Able to bridge engineering and business priorities, aligning technology delivery with strategic goals.
- Data-driven approach - Proficient in using metrics and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) to generate insights and inform decision-making
- Strong communication and facilitation skills - Confident influencing without authority, engaging stakeholders at all levels, and driving alignment.
- Cultural awareness - Effective working with distributed, cross-functional teams and adapting approaches to different contexts.
- Adaptability and resilience - Skilled at balancing governance with agility and maintaining delivery momentum in dynamic environments.
- Collaborative mindset - Passionate about coaching, team development, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for XXXX Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Working environment
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Knightsbridge, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
IT School / University
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a global leader in academic publishing, educational resources, and assessment. With over 500 years of expertise, the organization provides innovative learning materials and exams to support education and research worldwide.
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