Agile Project Manager

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Duties

Agile Project Manager Responsibilities:

You will be responsible to ensure the assigned project or projects are completed on time and that the project's objectives are met. Responsibilities will also include engagement and tasking a group of people to work together to achieve a set of specific objectives. The Project Manager will ensure the desired result is achieved, the most efficient resources are used, and the different interests of parties involved are satisfied. You will need to be proficient in agile product management techniques, such as writing user stories, prioritizing backlogs, developing roadmaps, defining goals and success metrics and reporting against them.

You must be capable to communicate efficiently and persuasively, through a variety of channels with a range of audiences, and explain technical concepts or decisions to technical and less technical folks alike both at the working level and at the executive level.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Engaging a mix of traditional and Agile project management practices to collaboratively plan, execute and control the activities of a project team within scheduled time and cost parameters.
-Facilitate agile processes - backlogs, planning, retrospectives, and demos and co-ordinate effort of the delivery team.
- Facilitates the team's progress toward goals.
- Brief Senior Management and engage with outside stakeholders.
- Assist in the management of changes in business processes.
- Monitor & assess the business case, risks and impact of changes.
- Capabilities to enable accurate estimates to enable planning.
- Ensure all objectives of the project are met.
- Ensure readiness for go-live - including User Acceptance Testing, planning of user training and any changes to the support model.
- Identify gaps in project resource, scope and seek direction as required.
- Co-ordinate the release iterations / deployment plan with the use of DevOps.
- Conduct effective handovers of project implementation to Programs.

Intent of the process

The current need is to staff a one year determinate employment with possibility of extension

A pool of candidates may be created for future vacancies (indeterminate, term, deployment, acting & casual type employments) at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION:

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in a related field (such as: computer science, information technology, information management, communications, business administration, engineering) or an acceptable combination of education/experience

And

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in good standing.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCES:

1) Recent Experience (within 5 years) in implementation of *complex large software projects by applying Project Management best practices and methodologies.
* Involving many stakeholders, staff, contractors, delivering on implementation of a complex IT/Technical product under tight timelines with shifting priorities.
2) Experience (within last 5 years) briefing senior management on complex initiatives progress, issues management, etc.
3) Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements

Information on language requirements

COMPETENCIES:

1) Effective Communicator
2) Innovative Thinker (Thrives in working in an innovative environment that embraces technology)
3) Ability to Mobilize Teams
4) Highly organized
5) Achieve Results

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

EDUCATION - ASSETS:

1) Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
2) Agile Certification and/or other IT related certification

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCES ASSETS:

1) Experience implementing Client Relationship Management systems.
2) Experience with Agile /Scrum product development methodologies.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEED:

In support of achieving a represented workforce, current or future organizational needs may require consideration be given to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: women, members of visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and Aboriginal peoples.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Willingness to travel, as required.
• Willingness to work outside working hours with minimal notice.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

GUIDELINES ON HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION

Your application must be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS). To submit your application, please select the link “Apply Online” shown above.

• HOW TO STRUCTURE

You must answer the screening questions by clearly demonstrating how you meet each of the screening criteria (i.e. education, essential experiences and any asset experiences that apply). You must meet all the essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position.

• WHAT CONTENT ARE WE LOOKING FOR

You must provide concrete, detailed, and recent examples (within 5 years). We encourage you to describe in detail when, where and how you gained the experiences. As an example, this could include a description of context, priority of the requirement, degree of complexity of the problem/task, undertaken actions and outcomes. Your resume may be a secondary source to confirm the experience described in the screening questions.


• PROOF OF EDUCATION

You will be asked to provide proof of education credentials at the time of
assessment. Candidates with foreign credentials will be asked to provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/.

• ASSESSMENT

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. You are asked to indicate your preferred official language in your application.

• COMMUNICATIONS

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate's responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

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Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.