Remote Job Opportunity as a SCOPE Product Manager at UN's World Food Program

 World Food Program (WFP) is offering a remote job opportunity as a SCOPE Product Manager, to join the Technology Division which is the digital business engine of the World Food Programme, providing the business with multi-pronged and resilient technical capabilities able to respond with the immediate agility required in conflict zones on the one hand and with the longer-term stability to cope natural disasters on the other. 

1. Create and maintain the Product Roadmap outlining the evolution of the product.
2. Prepare the Product Roadmap for endorsement by the TEC Demand Assessment Board (DAB) or Project Prioritisation Board (PPR) when requested.
3. Perform the role of Scrum Product Owner.
4. Develop and explicitly communicate the Product Goal.
5. Gather and validate requirements preferably following a Human-Centred Design (HCD) approach.
6. Ensure that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
7. Communicate requirements inwards to the Product Development Team.
8. Decompose high-level requirements.
9. Create and clearly communicate Product Backlog Items (PBI), partnering closely with Stakeholders and the Product Development Team to ensure everyone understands the items in the backlog.
10. Communication outwards to Stakeholders.
11. Communicate estimates, dependencies and technical issues after grooming sessions, informing and negotiating with the Stakeholders.
12. Make decisions, in consultation with Stakeholders, regarding the priority of PBIs.
13. Decide when to deploy the product with the predisposition towards frequent releases.
14. Take care of Backlog Grooming: regularly review items on the backlog to ensure the backlog contains the appropriate items, that they are prioritized, and that the items at the top of the backlog are ready for delivery.
15. Participate in the Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Product Demos and Retrospectives when needed.  
16. Remain up to date on SCOPE functionalities and assess technical feasibility.
17. Perform functional testing and facilitate acceptance testing.
18. Provide additional product demonstrations to stakeholders.
19. Provide troubleshooting and validation of incidents on production as 2nd to 3rd line support. 
20. Maintain an up to date understanding of the business to comprehend the requirements for development changes. 
21. Manage the product budget (including support & maintenance costs), and prepare cost estimates based on the IT Solution Architect’s high-level effort estimates.
22. Keep track of the consumption of purchased time-and-materials quotas.
23. Verify vendor consumption reports and invoices.
24. Approve consumption reports for the insertion the corresponding Service Entry Sheets. 
25. In collaboration with the TEC’s Head of Sourcing, initiate the request for the creation of Purchase Orders. 
26. Other duties as required. 

1. University degree in business administration, information technology, or other related fields. 
2. Minimum 3 years of post-graduate experience within Agile product management environments, including a proven track record of planning, leading and executing product deliveries.  
3. Familiarity with SCOPE or other similar platforms or business processes within the domain areas of digital assistance is a plus.
4. Familiarity with banking systems, electronic money transfer systems, security protocols, industry standards, procurement of financial services and points/awards systems is a bonus. 
5. Being able to facilitate business units so that there is a common understanding and consensus when discussing projects and changes. 
6. Ability to run requirements workshops if requested and under the guidance of the Lead Product Manager.
7. Ability to think creatively, strategically, and identify and resolve problems.
8. Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
9. Well organized and detail oriented.
10. Able to effectively coordinate multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
11. Able to articulate complex concepts in non-technical language.
12. Able to plan and organize work and communicate effectively.
13. Enthusiastically work with a diverse population of people of different national and cultural backgrounds, particularly valuing respectfulness and inclusively leveraging everyone's talents.
14. Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is desirable.

About the World Food Program:

The World Food Program (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. According to the WFP, it provides food assistance to an average of 91.4 million people in 83 countries each year. From its headquarters in Rome and from more than 80 country offices around the world, the WFP works to help people who cannot produce or obtain enough food for themselves and their families. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and part of its executive committee.

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