Enterprise Agile Coach, Coaching The Coaches

Juventus Consulting is looking for an _**Enterprise Agile Coach**_ who will focus on **coaching other coaches** by leveraging their expertise in their respective disciplines.

You'll need to be **PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM ,CSM, CSO or other Agile certified.**

You will coach, train and mentor team coaches and create and maintain ongoing learning journeys for each of the disciplines to follow. You will be responsible for assessing other coaches and provide necessary upskilling and support, to improve their performance and outcomes in support of Sun Life’s business plans and goals. You will also be responsible for improving their respective practices and leading their communities of practice globally.

The Enterprise Agile Coach is a discipline expert in Agile Practices and will be responsible for working with Agile Coaches to provide coaching, training, mentoring, impediment management, and leadership to facilitate collaboration, development consistency, and value delivery across multiple teams and departments. The Senior Agile Coach will also ensure coaches train teams to resolve impediments and shift mindset and behaviors. They will act as role models by demonstrating the right mindset including a test and learn attitude, a bias for action, a passion to innovate and a willingness to learn.

What will you do?
- Provides 1:1 coaching and mentoring to all Agile Coaches, and ensure their roles and responsibilities and delivery expectations are clearly undersood on the team and through the Scrum processes and ceremonies.
- Act as a champion for all Agile Coaches globally, as it pertains to Digital Enterprise and teams. Help stand up new agile teams and provide coaching and consulting to these teams to support their development and ongoing improvement to become self-organizing, self-managing and highly functional. This includes supporting the development of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team members.
- Plays a leadership role to help remove impediments and facilitate an environment of continuous improvement and adoption of agile/scrum practices.
- Provides coaching on how to prioritize and manage items in the backlog and maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
- Works with other Coaches, with a specific focus on Agile, as they empower the team to become self-organizing, self-managing and highly functional.
- Provides educational support to the organization on Agile practices to increase the Company-wide execution, innovation and overall maturity.
- Promotes the Agile culture and mindset throughout the organization. This includes leading teams and influencing leaders and partners as they learn and adopt Agile practices by supporting them through coaching, mentoring, facilitating and teaching.
- Promotes the use of DevOps technical practices and tools.
- Coordinate with other teams, facilitate preparation for Product Increment Planning, and support the Agile Release Train estimates for larger features and capabilities.
- Provide the educational support to the organization on Agile principles and Scrum/ Kanban practices or any additional Agile techniques to increase the Company-wide execution, innovation and overall maturity.

What do you need to succeed?
- 5 years of coaching experience in Agile delivery / transformation / training / coaching and is a discipline expert in agile practices (Scrum, SAFe)
- Must have a mindset of a test and learn attitude, a bias for action, a passion to innovate and a willingness to learn.
- Expert facilitator with mentoring, training and teaching experience
- Exceptional influencing skills in one on one scenarios and within a group. Uses emotional intelligence and humility to understand what motivates people to act.
- Strong collaborator in cross-functional teams on technology, design, business, and operations
- Strong organizational change management orientation
- Hands-on experience and previous accountability for delivery outcomes using Agile practices
- Commitment to grow as an Agile Coach through continually improving your own skills and approaches

Education
- Undergraduate degree, college diploma in a Business discipline
- Formal teaching or coaching experience

**- Agile Certification - PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM ,CSM, CSO or other Agile certification**

Travel Requirements:
As a member of the Agile Transformation Office you will be situated in our office in Waterloo or Toronto.

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: $80.00-$100.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON M5J 0B6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Project management: 4 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Agile Coach (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5J 0B6