Additional Information
What We Can Achieve Together:
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, and 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. These include the following countries: Latin America (Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru); North America (Canada- Only Alberta, Ontario and Northwest Territories, United States)
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Manage Agile and hybrid IT projects from initiation through closeout
Establish and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, schedules, and forecasts
Coordinate with IT teams via Agile events, Jira boards, and project artifacts to ensure effective team execution and continuous improvement
Collaborate with business sponsors, IT team members, IT team leads, and IT and business leadership to continually align scope, priorities, dependencies, and schedule commitments
Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, and schedule tradeoffs, tracking them to give visibility to teams and stakeholders
Provide clear, concise status reporting and recommendations to stakeholders and leaders
Coordinate delivery across multiple IT teams, vendors, and business partners
Ensure compliance with TNC IT standards, governance checkpoints, and delivery frameworks
Support release planning, change management, and adoption readiness
Contribute to Agile, project management, and portfolio process improvements
Partner with the Agile Center of Excellence to identify opportunities for growing agility in project management methods, in line with organizational needs
We're Looking for You:
Have you ever asked yourself, "How can I make a difference?", but you don't know where to go or have the time to do it? Welcome to The Nature Conservancy. You have found the solution and now you can pointedly make a difference every day!
We're looking for an individual with Agile project management experience who wants to make a difference for nature and people. TNC is a global conservation leader needs your help in keeping our systems operating effectively!
The ideal candidate will have all or some of the qualifications. If you don't have all of them, please apply anyway and tell us about your skills and experience:
Agile or project management certification (CSM®, PMIACP®, 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
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