Agile Coach

Job description:

Role : Agile Coach

Length : Contract for 12 months, starting ASAP.

Location : Vancouver preferred, Calgary applicants are considered

Job Description Reporting to the Manager of the Project Management Office, the Agile Coach: coaches, mentors, trains individuals, teams, domains, and the organization towards a high level of agile maturity.

Responsibilities:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Provide Agile mentoring and training to teams and individuals at our Vancouver location and various operational sites.
• Support and mentor the planning and delivery of team onboarding, uplifting, and/or accelerator programs.
• Provide mentorship when required for teams to guide an agile approach to daily meetings, planning, teamwork, and managing workflow.
• Add to library of agile knowledge through the development of Agile Playbook articles, blogs, case studies, podcasts, or generation of video content.
• Use industry best practices in mentoring, process improvement experience, and agile methodologies to help teams deliver business value.
• Lead or participate in the design of training material aligned to the emergent needs of the organization
• Speak at conferences and professional community meetups.
• Lead the agile maturity journey for an assigned domain/portfolio/Team of teams pathing out and documenting their plan with them to reach their maturity goals.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience applying lean/Agile methodologies proven by the experience of being a Scrum Master or Product Owner on an agile team.
• Excellent presentation, training, and coaching skills, a working engagement product is the highest measure of progress, you also bring concise narratives and strong transparency through high-quality presentation documents
• Proven experience mentoring and coaching agile delivery teams
• Embodies the characteristics of an agile leader
• Can demonstrate the use of strong communication skills in interpersonal conflict conditions
• Practiced in interpersonal, cultural, or digital transformation
• Ability and willingness to train and facilitate in-person events
• Ability and willingness to use virtual teamwork tools (Miro, Virtual Whiteboards, MS Teams) to host pieces of training or facilitation for geographically dispersed teams
• Understanding of DevOps and DevOps tools is desirable (Azure DevOps in particular)
• Ability to craft workshops or interventions aligned with Adult Learning Principles
• Passionate problem solver and facilitator who thrives in navigating ambiguous situations
• Humility, is the understanding that a learning organization starts with the recognition of what you do not know and the value of learning from others
• Excellent executive function skills demonstrated through excellent organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills
• 5+ years of large-scale Agile mentoring experience with methods such as Scrum or Kanban
• 5+ years’ experience in working with/leading multiple teams
• Able to work remotely most of the time. Available to travel occasionally (<25%) to other corporate offices in Canada.
• Elevated credentials are beneficial, like Scrum Alliance CTC, CEC; SAFe SPC; IC Agile
• Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC); or a demonstrable development path of training and practical experience showing your evolution as a mentor.
• Familiarity with traditional project delivery and transformation to Agile is a bonus.

Successful candidates must be fully vaccinated against infection by COVID-19. Candidates who are unable to be vaccinated due to a personal characteristic protected under applicable human rights legislation may request to be exempt from this requirement. We will do our best to accommodate those who are unable to be vaccinated.

Job 59618