Product Owner, Impact - Mississauga, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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:
Product Owner, Impact

Reports to:
Senior Product Manager, Impact

Position Term:
Full Time Permanent

Primary Location:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Workplace Type:
Remote (Within Canada)

Job purpose

World Vision Canadas' (WVC) Impact Hub is responsible for the end-to-end value delivery of how WVC becomes the leader in efficient and effective impact delivery (Impact Value Stream).

World Vision Canada is looking for a highly innovative individual with strong business acumen and an entrepreneurial drive for the position of Product Owner, Impact.

Following a disciplined Agile Scrum approach, the Product Owner will be a part of the dedicated agile team(s) focused on equipping World Vision Canada to be Impact-Driven with evolved impact measurement and evaluation capabilities and practices through rapid test and learn cycles obsessed with delivering stakeholder value and driving increased trust and accountability rankings.

We are looking for high performing individuals who are:

Agile and innovative individuals, who can thrive in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold and strategic moves in this rapidly evolving environment.
Creative thinkers who take initiative and are capable of building, launching, and managing projects/programs/products that drive results for our customers.
Problem solvers with the ability to analyze and prioritize to meet business objectives.
Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward and bring out the best of people.

Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, Impact, the Product Owner is a key member of the Agile Scrum team that is responsible for both defining and prioritizing the team backlog in the execution of the solution roadmap so that the solution(s) meet organizational priorities and deliver stakeholder value.

S/he responsibilities include defining the features of the new/modified offering, prioritizing such features, adjusting the features and priorities as needed after each sprint/iteration, accepting or rejecting work results, and keeping stakeholders informed on status as well as gain their feedback.

Duties and responsibilities
Ensure team priority backlog and strategic effectiveness

In collaboration with the Senior Product Manager, define the roadmap, growth opportunities, and key metrics based on delivering organizational value.
Understand the vision and evaluate various approaches to implement effective solutions.
Provide vision to the Agile Scrum team members throughout projects and planning cycles.
Drive innovation by translating thoughts and ideas into tangible requirements in the form of features, epics, capabilities, enablers, and user stories.
Ensure the Agile Scrum team has an adequate amount of clearly defined and refined stories in the team backlog to work on.
Organize backlog prioritization to deliver epics, capabilities, features, enablers, and stories with the highest business value and eliminate or renegotiate the scope of stories that do not align with the defined purpose of the Agile Scrum team.
Play an active role working with the Scrum Master in mitigating, documenting, and removing impediments impacting completion of sprint goals and objectives.
Prioritize needs between scope, budget, and time weighing priorities according to supporter value.
Actively participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint review and retrospectives, sprint demos, and lead the planning release for output delivery.
Can deep dive into the details while maintaining the roll up to 360degree view.

Act as primary interface with the organization for their domain

Collaborates with other product owners, product managers, business owners, and other stakeholders to drive product strategy, design, innovation, and overall product direction.
Work crossfunctionally with stakeholders, Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and peer agile teams to identify user needs, determine business value, detail user stories for prioritization in team backlog, and manage output delivery.
Set and manage expectations of stakeholders for the delivery of new outputs, proactively identifying and communicating barriers to delivery and negotiating timeline, scope, resources, and budget as required.
Represent the Scrum team in plannin