Scrum Master/team Coach - Mississauga, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Mississauga, Canada

3 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:
Scrum Master/Team Coach

Reports to:
Enterprise Agile Coach

Position Term:
Full Time Term (12 months)

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 programlevel 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 crossteam dependencies (may include managing vendors, freelancers, and volunteers as well as working with nonagile 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 programlevel and portfoliolevel 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 multifunction selfmanaging 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 daytoday 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 coleading organizations through Agile adoption and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated ability of effectively working in dynamic (constantly evolving) resultsdriven environments with competing stakeholder requirements and delivery timelines.
Demonstrated high level of personal ownership, collaborative teamwork, holistic valuecentric 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, decisio