Junior Project Manager

1 week ago

Halifax, Canada Emera Inc. Full time

**Job Title**: Junior Project Manager
**Company, Department**: Nova Scotia Power, Information Technology
**Location**: Halifax, NS
**Type of Employment**: Regular, Full Time
**Closing Date**: January 13, 2023
**Reference Number**: 10859
At Nova Scotia Power, we’re committed to providing safe, reliable electricity so that our customers and communities can thrive. We work across the province, from Yarmouth to Wreck Cove, to prevent power outages and to strengthen our electrical system—for today, and for the future.
As a subsidiary of Emera Inc, we provide 95% of the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical power to approximately 540,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers. Our company is focused on new technologies to enhance customer service and reliability, reduce emissions, and add renewable energy.
We are proud to live and work in Nova Scotia. It’s why we work to understand how we can give back meaningfully, support local organizations and work collaboratively to enhance the communities we call home.
We believe that every unique perspective should be valued and that everyone should have a sense of safety and belonging—at work, and in our communities. Leveraging the thoughts of a diverse workforce helps us to be innovative and provide the best service to our customers.
As we continue our journey toward a digital utility, we deliver solutions in both frameworks (Waterfall and Agile). There is, however, a significant push and trend towards agile delivered projects as we introduce, develop and train existing team members with “what it means to be agile” with emphasis around the agile manifesto and the technical aspects of agile execution (e.g. scrums, Kanban, product backlogs, backlog grooming, product owners, sprints, product roadmaps and release plans, sprint retrospectives, ceremonies, etc.).
**Accountabilities**:
In the role of **Junior **Project Manager / Scrum Leader,** you will be responsible for managing cross-functional project teams using NSPI’s Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) framework (based on PMI’s PMBOK or our evolving established Agile framework).
In this role you will also provide team leadership and mentoring. this means you will be expected to guide and coach the agile teams on how to use our Agile practices and principles and to contribute to the improvement of our Agile practices within the organization. You will be expected to guide your teams toward self-organization, encourage cross-functional assignments, manage expectations and timelines, collaborate to resolve problems, and remove impediments to aid the self-organizing teams to deliver value quickly and cost-effectively.
Should you be implementing in the waterfall domain, you will be expected to execute those projects following NSPI’s Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) framework (based on PMI’s PMBOK). You will take the lead and provide leadership to your teams for the five phases of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout following our technology governance processes. As well scope, schedule, budget, quality, and stakeholder management will be key elements of success that you manage on each project as you guide your teams through successful planning and execution.
You will also be responsible for your own personal safety and that of your co-workers by observing and ensuring compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations. You will also be accountable for environmental performance as it relates to the environmental management system processes and initiatives.
**Overall Skills, Capabilities and Experience**:

- Coaching teams to create and deliver quality solutions and services at their optimal pace, including identifying and collaboratively executing on continuous improvement opportunities.
- Guides and coaches the team and organization on how to use scrum and agile practices and methodologies.
- Coaches the team on our PPM framework, agile practice, and technology governance process.
- Ensures daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and planning meetings are facilitated in a way that encourages full engagement of the teams,
- Establishes and reinforces an agile mindset within the team through conversations and coaching related to self-management and cross functionality.
- Experience developing and implementing organizational change (i.e., people change management)
- Supports the Product Owner or Project Sponsor and ensures the teams delivery of value is highly visible to all stakeholders.
- Has direct involvement in the product and backlog planning for agile projects.
- Has firsthand experience in project estimation and planning, for waterfall projects.
- Understands and contributes to our business vision and engages beyond process.
- Fosters close cooperation, cross-training, and mutual support across all team members.
- Facilitates communication and collaboration inside and outside of the team.
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