Enterprise Agile Coach

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada World Vision Canada Full time

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**Position**: Enterprise Agile Coach

**Reports to**: Head of Agile, Agile Transformation

**Position Term**: Full Time Permanent

**Primary Location**: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

**Workplace Type**: Hybrid (within GTA)

Job Purpose
This position plays an essential servant leadership role in the delivery of enterprise business agility that in turn will support business growth and innovation at WVC. The Enterprise Agile Coach will focus on supporting, mentoring, and coaching the organization and its Agile leaders (Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Managers, Product Owners, Release Train engineers, Team members) to relentlessly improve in both our agile mindset and adoption of agile methodologies. In this role you will embrace, promote, model, mentor and evolve the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban, LEAN and Agile principles throughout the organization.

This position partners with the Enterprise Portfolio, Initiative and Capability Owners, Portfolio Managers, Agile Program Managers, Scrum Masters, PI Release Train Engineer (RTE) and organizational Business Owners / Project Managers to support and coach through execution of specific programs containing multiple projects, enhancements, and requests.

Duties and responsibilities

Build and Scale Enterprise Agile Operations
- Supporting various departments within People & Culture, Shared Services and Finance Cooperate Risk, Business Architecture, D&IT, Supporter Centric Marketing, Product Management, Philanthropy, Programs and Policy to scale up and achieve business agility.
- Educate the organization with scaling and business agility concepts and provide orientation, overview training and coaching to executives, leadership team members and senior stakeholders.
- Maintenance and prioritization of our Agile Operations backlog.
- Work with Senior stakeholders to define value, understand the flow of value, identify the value streams and Agile release Trains (ART).
- Design, develop and implement Agile Transformation roadmap in collaboration with Transformation Team.

Mentoring, Coaching and Training our Lean Agile Leaders and Agile Teams
- Build and Coach in-house Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches. Training and Coaching on Agile mindset and principles.
- Support in defining enterprise-wide Agile standards & guidelines (e.g., DoD, SM, Team and PO qualifications and responsibilities).
- Coordinate between and among Value Streams, Agile Release Trains, teams for progress, impediment resolution, and project management oversight.
- Coach the Value Streams, ARTs to facilitating Scrum of Scrums, System demo, I&A and follow up on improvement items.
- Collaborate with Agile coaches, Scrum Master, RTEs and guide them to establish scaling practices within their programs and portfolios.
- Collaborate with release management, environment management and DevOps and support establishing a continuous delivery pipeline.
- Support in Fostering SAFe Communities of Practice (CoPs).
- Supportive in critical planning events which includes, but is not limited to, Big Room Planning, Program Increment (PI) Planning and Inspect and Adapt (I&A).

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 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.

**Qualifications**:

- University or college undergraduate degree in a related field.
- Certification(s) in Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) (i.e., Advanced scrum master, Scrum Master, RTE, Product owner etc.).
- 7+ years experience working in Agile frameworks such as Scrum / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- 7+ years experience as a people leader (Director, Manager) with experience coaching, developing, and leading through organizational transformation with a strong attention to organizational strategic planning and business agility.
- 7+ years experience in identifying, defining, and establishing agile teams.
- Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to coach, train and develop ta

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