Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master

Job Type: Contract; FullTime

Location: Hybrid Multiple Locations (Canada)

About the Company:

Our client is a Crown corporation providing specialized and personalized financial services to farming operations. Our client offers financing insurance software learning programs and other business services to producers agribusiness owners and agrifood entrepreneurs across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 12 teams
  

• Remove impediments for the Team and the Product Owner
  

• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies and related workshops
  

• Reinforcing Scrum practices
  

• Supporting information management of the planning and completed work
  

• Process Management and Improvement collaborate with other Scrum Masters and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile and Scrum Master role
  

• Team Building Ensuring a good working relationship between team members promote empowerment of the team ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in their work and in the project.
  

Requirements:

Required Experience

• Indepth knowledge of Agile principles Scrum and Kanban frameworks and techniques as well as the ability to mentor others in their application of Agile and Scrum
  

• Utilize corporate objectives and priorities to ensure teams are working on the right piece of work
  

• Analyze and resolve a wide range of impediments that are strategic organizational or technical in nature
  

• Minimum five years of business experience
  

• Scrum Master certification would be an asset
  

• Current or previous Scrum Master experience is required
  

• Experience supporting multiple teams is an asset
  

Required Skills:

• Agile Mindset Growth Mindset
  

• Conflict facilitation
  

• Fosters communication
  

• Facilitation skills (inperson and remote)
  

• Empathetic listener
  

Specific Project Requirements: The company s Small Segment team is seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and agile Change Advisor to support Small Segment initiatives by developing, implementing, and evaluating strategic change requirements in this space. The Change Advisor will play a key role in ensuring employee adoption and usage. The Change Advisor will focus on the people's side of change including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures. The primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance. The Change Advisor will work with initiative teams and leaders to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization and greater proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organization to increase benefit realization, value creation, ROI and the achievement of results and outcomes. Skills: Top Skills Required: Demonstrate specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in change management consultancy. Excellent facilitation skills with ability to influence change at higher levels. Ability to quickly understand and gauge corporate climate and culture. Excellent communication skills. Other Skills Required: Excellent project management, prioritization, and organizational skills. Experience with change management in an Agile environment Assets: Minimum 7 years experience in employee and/or organizational effectiveness or change management. Advanced knowledge of organizational effectiveness or change management principles and practices. Change management certification or designation. Strong understanding of Financial institutions and/or previous experience providing change management support for financial institutions