[Hiring] IT Agile Project Manager II @The Nature Conservancy

Role Description

The Information Technology (IT) Agile Project Manager II leads medium-scale, moderately complex IT projects with minimal oversight in an increasingly Agile environment. In this role, the IT Agile Project Manager II is accountable for end-to-end delivery management—including planning, forecasting, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and delivery outcomes. They apply Agile principles pragmatically, leveraging Agile events, practices, and mindsets to manage scope, quality, and timelines.

The role will require managing projects across Agile teams in IT, occasional non-Agile teams in IT, and/or business teams with varying degrees of Agile familiarity. Within this context, the successful candidate will:

• Produce project-appropriate monitoring.
• Conduct corrective action as necessary.
• Communicate project status information to all stakeholders.
• Perform risk management, issue resolution, and conflict management.
• Ensure full alignment on project scope and quality.

They are accountable for ensuring that project information and summaries are provided for portfolio level reporting and metrics. This role operates with significant autonomy, regularly collaborates across IT and business units, and contributes to the maturation of Agile practices across the organization.

This can be a fully remote role (pending country rules regarding remote work) that can be located anywhere that TNC is registered to work with strong preference to Central, North, and South America.

Qualifications

• Agile or project management certification (CSM®, PMI-ACP®, PMP®, or equivalent).
• Experience managing the delivery of SaaS, COTS, or enterprise IT solutions.
• Experience of operating in a large, decentralized, or global organization.
• Ability to guide teams toward improved Agile maturity and management disciplines.
• Experience managing budgets, estimates, forecasts, or vendor deliverables.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, and 3 years of progressive experience in an IT environment, including project management experience, or equivalent combination.
• 3 years of progressively responsible IT project or Agile experience.
• Demonstrated success managing medium-complexity Agile or hybrid projects.
• Experience facilitating Agile events and managing project metrics and forecasts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Proficiency with project and collaboration tooling (e.g., Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar).

Benefits

• Competitive, comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match.
• Parental leave.
• Accrued paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Employee assistance program.
• Other life and work well-being benefits.