Description
Pay Rate:(flexible)
Location:Toronto Ontario
Contract Length: 2 Months
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Agile Coach is responsible for:
Engage with executive teams and stakeholders; partner closely with
existing Agile CoE team.
Co-design and facilitate workshops to explore drivers, challenges,
priorities, and expectations.
Identify areas of misalignment and opportunities for improvement.
Support alignment with senior leaders and TSD around a shared vision
and guiding principles for transformation.
Develop an agility-focused transformation roadmap and change
management strategy informed by discovery and grounded in reality.
Establish a maturity assessment framework that captures all dimensions
required for a successful transformation.
Create tailored training materials to introduce business agility concepts
across the division.
Develop tailored leadership materials.
Design and deliver a coaching competency framework/program to
strengthen the Agile CoE team.
Provide expert, hands-on coaching to leaders, while guiding the Agile CoE
team in building the same capability.
Produce recommendations and artifacts that support internal change (e.g.,
stakeholder maps, governance models for agile teams).
Ensure a knowledge transfer plan is in place to maintain continuity of
transformation.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or
related field
Agile Coaching certification (e.g., ICE-AC or equivalent)
Minimum 10 years of experience coaching executives and teams.
Proven expertise in Enterprise Transformation Strategy and Execution,
Organizational Change Management, and Business Agility.
Proficiency in Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Agile and Lean
approaches (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Strong verbal, written, collaboration, and presentation skills.
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
Preferred:
ORSC (Organizational Relationship Systems Coach)
CTTC (Certified Transformation Team Coach)
Lean Change Management certification
Co-Active Coach certification
LeSS or Disciplined Agile certifications
The City may contact the references provided. Should any reference fail to confirm
that the services listed in Section 3.0 were performed in a satisfactory manner; the
Candidate may be declared non-compliant, and not considered for the remainder
of the evaluation process.
Deliverables
1. Discovery and insights package
A consolidated list of findings that provide a clear view of the division’s current
state, so that we can establish a shared understanding of current state and
transformation drivers. Could include:
1a. Executive and team interview summaries
1b. Workshop outputs (drivers, challenges, priorities, expectations)
1c. Assessment of alignment gaps and systemic issues
1d. Identification of high-value opportunities for improvement
1e. Synthesis of themes and patterns
2. Business Agility Maturity Assessment framework
A custom framework that reflects the division’s context to provide a repeatable
measurement for transformation. Including:
2a. Defined assessment dimensions (eg. Leadership, governance, delivery,
culture, customer and product centricity, data, technology)2b. Rating scale and criteria
2c. Assessment tools (surveys, interviews, facilitated assessments, etc)
2d. Baseline maturity assessment results
3. Transformation Vision and Guiding Principiles
Co-created with senior leaders and aligned with TSD, to anchor transformation
work in shared direction and expectations
4. Division-wide transformation roadmap
A practical, realistic roadmap that guides implementation with a structured,
adaptive plan.
It may include:
4a. strategic priorities
4b. Sequenced initiatives
4c. Dependencies and assumptions
4d. Phased change approach across teams
4e. Estimated timelines and milestones
5. Organizational change management (OCM) strategy
A strategy to support adoption and sustainment so that transformation is
supported, not just designed. We have an OCM team, whom vendor can work
closely with.
6. Tailored Business Agility Learning materials
Customized learning content for the division so we can build shared understanding
across all levels. Again, we do have a Lean Agile Center of Enablement, with whom
the vendor can work to create this content.
7. Leadership Development Package
Leadership-focused materials, such as leadership agility principles, guide for
leading in an agile environment, role clarity, so they can champion and model new
ways of working.
8. Agile Coaching and Competency Framework and program
A capability-building package for the LACE team, so we can strengthen internal
coaching capabilities and reduce vendor dependencies. Vendor will not be starting
from scratch, and this will be a partnership with LACE.
9. Governance and ways of working recommendations
Artifacts supporting improved collaboration, flow, clarity to provide structural
supports for agility at TSD.
10. Hands on coaching and facilitation
Vendor-delivered coaching and facilitation to directly support leaders and model
effective coaching for internal teams.
11. Knowledge Transfer Plan
A sustainability-focused plan, to ensure continuity after vendor departure
12. Final consolidated report and presentation
A comprehensive summary of the engagement, so we can close our partnership
off with clarity and momentum.
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