Scrum Master - Mississauga, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Mississauga, Canada

1 week 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

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 plays a key servant leadership role in the delivery of successful business and technology solutions that support business growth and innovation at World Vision Canada.

As a member of the Agile Centre, this position facilitates one or more cross-functional Scrum / Kanban/ SAFe teams in delivering the highest possible business value.

Embrace, promote, model, mentor and evolve Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, LEAN, Kanban and Agile principles throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:

Scrum/Kanban/Agile Team Leadership

Proactively plan and manage Sprints/Iterations for the Agile Team
Facilitate relevant Scrum / SAFe ceremonies including Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Team Demos, Sprint Retrospectives
Proactively create and manage Scrum / SAFe Team artifacts including Team 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), Release Train Engineer(s), Product Owner (s), Product Manager(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 Agile / LEAN / SAFe Principles
Embrace, promote, model, mentor, and evolve Agile / Scrum /Kanban/ SAFe / LEAN principles including:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive 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 digital / IT projects specifically related to Web / Ecommerce / CRM / IT solutions
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 team work, 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