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Position : Product Owner, Impact
Reports to: Senior Product Manager, Impact
Position Term: Full Time Permanent
Primary Location:Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type:Remote (Within Canada)
Job purpose
World Vision Canadas’ (WVC) Impact Hub is responsible for the end-to-end value delivery of how WVC becomes the leader in efficient and effective impact delivery (Impact Value Stream). World Vision Canada is looking for a highly innovative individual with strong business acumen and an entrepreneurial drive for the position of Product Owner, Impact. Following a disciplined Agile Scrum approach, the Product Owner will be a part of the dedicated agile team(s) focused on equipping World Vision Canada to be Impact-Driven with evolved impact measurement and evaluation capabilities and practices through rapid test and learn cycles obsessed with delivering stakeholder value and driving increased trust and accountability rankings.
We are looking for high performing individuals who are:

• Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward and bring out the best of people.
• Problem solvers with the ability to analyze and prioritize to meet business objectives.
• Agile and innovative individuals, who can thrive in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold and strategic moves in this rapidly evolving environment.
• Creative thinkers who take initiative and are capable of building, launching, and managing projects/programs/products that drive results for our customers.

Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, Impact, the Product Owner is a key member of the Agile Scrum team that is responsible for both defining and prioritizing the team backlog in the execution of the solution roadmap so that the solution(s) meet organizational priorities and deliver stakeholder value. S/he responsibilities include defining the features of the new/modified offering, prioritizing such features, adjusting the features and priorities as needed after each sprint/iteration, accepting or rejecting work results, and keeping stakeholders informed on status as well as gain their feedback.
Duties And Responsibilities
Ensure team priority backlog and strategic effectiveness

• Provide vision to the Agile Scrum team members throughout projects and planning cycles.
• In collaboration with the Senior Product Manager, define the roadmap, growth opportunities, and key metrics based on delivering organizational value.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint review and retrospectives, sprint demos, and lead the planning release for output delivery.
• Prioritize needs between scope, budget, and time – weighing priorities according to supporter value.
• Drive innovation by translating thoughts and ideas into tangible requirements in the form of features, epics, capabilities, enablers, and user stories.
• Understand the vision and evaluate various approaches to implement effective solutions.
• Organize backlog prioritization to deliver epics, capabilities, features, enablers, and stories with the highest business value and eliminate or renegotiate the scope of stories that do not align with the defined purpose of the Agile Scrum team.
• Ensure the Agile Scrum team has an adequate amount of clearly defined and refined stories in the team backlog to work on.
• Can deep dive into the details while maintaining the roll up to 360-degree view.
• Play an active role working with the Scrum Master in mitigating, documenting, and removing impediments impacting completion of sprint goals and objectives.

Act as primary interface with the organization for their domain

• Set and manage expectations of stakeholders for the delivery of new outputs, proactively identifying and communicating barriers to delivery and negotiating timeline, scope, resources, and budget as required.
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders, Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and peer agile teams to identify user needs, determine business value, detail user stories for prioritization in team backlog, and manage output delivery.
• Represent the Scrum team in planning for cross-functional activities across areas of the organization including Supporter-Centric Marketing, Programs & Policy, Digital & IT, Campaigns, Digital Marketing, Philanthropy, Offering Fulfilment, and Channel Management.
• Work with inputs from business owners/CoEs to create and present Governance Briefs/Business Cases.
• Collaborates with other product owners, product managers, business owners, and other stakeholders to drive product strategy, design, innovation, and overall product direction.
• Work with the team Marketer/Business Analyst to effectively develop and deliver briefs to Centres of Excellence (CoEs) when resources or skill set is unavailable within the team.
• Model and embrace a non-hierarchical approach, demonstrating transparency and trust across the organization.

Ensure best in class in the assigned domain (Impact)

• Keep up to date with Agile/Scrum best practices and trends.
• Keep up to date with changes to market conditions, competition, and industry trends.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written.
• Other personal attributes: ambitious, assertive, analytical, energetic, enthusiastic, confident, optimistic, inquisitive, collaborative, persuasive, and motivational.
• Embraces a non-hierarchical approach, modeling transparency, collaboration, and trust across the team.
• Able to navigate the organization and influence through indirect leadership and relationship capital.
• Experience in a start-up or agile environment.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable with both high-level planning and tactical execution.
• Experience creating detailed business cases to equip senior leadership with decision-making.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in product, analytics, marketing, fundraising, or technology.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills to realize maximum value.
• University degree in analytics, business, marketing, science, strategy, or a similar discipline.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Ability to handle criticisms and/or justify decisions.Expects major objections.Has experience navigating through conflicting priorities, turning ambiguity into clarity in a fast-changing environment.
• Creative thinker with the ability to provide solutions that meet customer needs.
• Strong ability to manage financials and strategic execution (budgets, ROIs, resource allocation, and multiple concurrent projects).
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions especially when needing to make trade-offs.
• Able to excel in a dynamic environment while managing several projects simultaneously.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Why Consider Us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada’s and the GTA’s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• You get extra time off for restoration. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks’ vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account. We match pension contributions up to 6% and give up a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves up to 25%.
• We embody an agile mindset here.
• We are Canada’s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.
• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.

We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.
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Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.
World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
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