Job Description

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Mississauga, ON, Canada \xe2\x97\x8f Virtual Req #922

Friday, March 3, 2023

Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too. Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world: Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world\'s most vulnerable children. Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position: Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Reports to: Enterprise Agile Coach

Position Term: Full Time Permanent

Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Workplace Type: Remote (Within Canada)

Job Purpose

The Scrum Master/Agile Coach plays a key servant leadership role in the delivery of value that support business growth and innovation at World Vision Canada.

As a support for the Enterprise, this position leads one or more cross-functional Scrum / SAFe teams in delivering the highest possible business value. Embrace, promote, model, mentor and evolve Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, LEAN, and Agile principles throughout the entire Enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Scrum Team Leadership

• Proactively plan and manage Sprints for your Scrum Team
• Lead relevant Scrum / SAFe ceremonies including Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Team Demos, Sprint Retrospectives
• Proactively create and manage Scrum / SAFe Team artifacts including backlogs, Sprints, Epics, Business / Enabler Stories, Releases, PI Plan components, Retrospectives, and Sprint Reports
• Play a critical role in SAFe program-level ceremonies including Portfolio Intake, Release Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Program Retrospectives.

Planning and Management of Business Value Delivery

• Actively manage delivery of value through Stories throughout the cadence of Sprints and Product Increments. This includes team productivity, velocity, completion rate, and overall product quality.
• Proactively enable and promote the Flow of work by working to remove impediments and timely aligning of cross-team dependencies (may include managing vendors, freelancers, and volunteers as well as working with non-agile teams).
• Proactively collaborate with fellow Scrum Master(s), PI Release Manager(s), Portfolio Manager(s), Program manager(s), Project Manager(s), as well as external Partners / Vendors to deliver shared business value.
• Appropriately escalate program-level and portfolio-level issues as well as opportunities.

Modelling

Modelling Agile / LEAN / SAFe Principles

• Embrace, promote, model, mentor, and evolve Agile / Scrum / SAFe / LEAN principles including:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools;
• Working software over excessive documentation;
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation;
• Responding to change over following a plan;
• Focus on business and customer value;
• Transparency of Execution;
• Expect and anticipate change;
• Relentless improvement;
• Decentralized decision making through multi-function self-managing teams;
• Continuous iterative solution design and architecture;

Innovation and Relentless Improvement

• Invest time to gain the invaluable understanding of WVC organizational strategic goals, priorities, and challenges as well as Partnership initiatives.
• Collaboratively innovate and identify areas of improvements to achieve increased business value, decreased risks, staff engagement, organization effectiveness, and more;
• Employ organizational adopted tools and best practices to facilitate process improvement efforts and contribute to the realization of the strategic goals.
• Actively collaborate with other staff and teams to constantly improve and refine the solution delivery framework.
• Champion, promote, and adopt innovation within day-to-day work, team activities, and the organization as a whole.

Qualifications Required:

• University or college undergraduate degree in a related field.
• Current Scrum Master Certification 2+ Years of experience working in any of Scrum / Scaled Scrum / Scaled Agile Framework SAFe.
• 5+ Years of experience in managing multiple projects.
• Demonstrated experience in leading or co-leading organizations through Agile adoption and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability of effectively working in dynamic (constantly evolving) results-driven environments with competing stakeholder requirements and delivery timelines.
• Demonstrated high level of personal ownership, collaborative teamwork, holistic value-centric perspective, work adaptability, and innovation.
• Demonstrated history of continuous learning, relentless improvement, openness to new ideas, healthy attitude to failures, and personal drive to grow.
• Demonstrated collaboration, organizational, interpersonal, communication, conflict management, problem solving, change management, attention to detail, decision making, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of web technologies and digital best practices.

Preferred / Beneficial

• Current Scaled Agile Framework Certification.
• 2+ Years of experience working in traditional project management frameworks such as Waterfall / PMI / SDLC / Prince.

You\'re ready for a job with a deep sense of purpose and want to play the leading role in finding better ways to tell our authentic impact story as we continue to help serve the world\'s most vulnerable girls and boys.

Why Consider Us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada\'s and the GTA\'s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• We are Canada\'s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.
• We embody an agile mindset here.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account. We match pension contributions up to 6% and give up a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves up to 25%.
• You get extra time off for restoration. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks\' vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.

We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.

Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.

Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.

World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.

World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Other details

• Job Family Strategy, Collaboration, & Innovation
• Job Function Individual Contributor
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Fully Remote

• Mississauga, ON, Canada
• Virtual

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