Agility Lead

National Philanthropic Trust; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

National Philanthropic Trust is seeking an Agility Lead to serve as Scrum Master for delivery teams within the IT Delivery Center of Excellence. You will coach teams in Scrum and Kanban, drive flow metrics, and help raise delivery maturity across the organization.

You'll collaborate with the Center of Excellence lead and the Jira/Confluence engineer to optimize processes, improve planning, and deliver reliable outcomes. A minimum of 5 years in Agile roles and strong coaching skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Agile delivery experience
• Experience as Scrum Master or Agile Coach
• Experience coaching Product Owners and technical leads
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for your Scrum teams and coach Kanban teams on flow, WIP, and service expectations
• Run and continually improve team ceremonies with preparation and follow-through
• Coach Product Owners on backlog health, prioritization, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder management
• Remove impediments at team level and escalate to Center of Excellence leadership
• Prepare teams for quarterly planning, manage dependencies, and coordinate Scrum of Scrums

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum Master

Kanban

Coaching teams

Jira

Confluence

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

AI tools usage

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We work with integrity to support our donors in all aspects of giving, strive to meet their satisfaction in all interactions and prioritize their experience in all innovation.

Join our team and help us increase philanthropy in society. You can view our available positions below.

Position:Agility Lead

Location: Conshohocken/Hybrid, PA

Job Id:748

# of Openings:1

Agility Lead

Become a Part of the NPT Team

National Philanthropic Trust was founded in 1996. Since that time, have raised more than $95.8 billion in charitable contributions and currently manage $68.7 billion in charitable assets. We have made more than 1.1 million grants totaling more than $55.5 billion to charities all over the world. We rank among the largest grantmaking institutions in the United States.

Our mission is to increase philanthropy in society. To that end, our experienced staff of philanthropic professionals are fully prepared to help you establish and administer your donor-advised fund. NPT is led by a Board of Trustees composed of nationally known experts in philanthropy and business.

At National Philanthropic Trust, we foster a welcoming environment for all.People are valued and respected for who they are—with opportunities to bring theirentrepreneurial spirit andtalents to increase giving around the world. We have an inclusive, supportive, collaborative culture that makes National Philanthropic Trust one of the most rewarding places to work.

About the role

Great teams don't just follow a process, they own their practice. As an Agility Lead, you'll serve as Scrum Master for a set of NPT's delivery teams and coach them, in sprints or in continuous flow, to deliver predictably and keep getting better.

Running a meeting well is the starting point. The real work is the preparation, follow through, and judgment behind it. You'll be accountable for whether the teams you support actually work differently over time, and you'll use metrics to show it.

You'll work within our IT Delivery Center of Excellence, partnering with the Center of Excellence lead, who runs quarterly planning, and with the engineer who owns our Jira platform.

What you'll do

Coach teams to deliver

• Serve as Scrum Master for your Scrum teams, and coach your Kanban teams on flow, work in progress, and service expectations
• Run and continually improve team ceremonies, with the preparation and follow through that turn meetings into decisions
• Coach Product Owners on backlog health, prioritization, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder management
• Remove impediments at the team level, and escape organizational ones to Center of Excellence leadership

Drive maturity and measure it

• Set a maturity baseline for each team you support and track progress against it
• Help define the team health, delivery, and quality metrics the Center of Excellence publishes, and make sure teams use them in retrospectives and planning
• Design small improvement experiments and measure whether they worked
• Use flow metrics such as work in progress, cycle time, and aging work to guide coaching conversations

Hold the standard

• Apply our delivery standards at the team level, including Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and working agreements
• Coach teams to raise changes before work begins, complete change records, and meet release gates rather than route around them
• Hold the standard every sprint: SOC 2 tests whether a control operated consistently, not whether it existed
• Partner with the platform engineer to fix workflow friction and drive adoption of new capabilities, and with our test strategy lead on recurring quality concerns

Plan and coordinate

• Prepare your teams for quarterly planning, including backlog readiness, capacity, and dependencies, and facilitate their team planning
• Carry dependencies between your teams and the wider delivery organization, including through Scrum of Scrums
• Once a second Agility Lead is in place, coordinate on coverage, practice calibration, and backup

Build the practice

• Contribute to training materials, playbooks, and templates based on what works with your teams
• Take part in our community of practice and help calibrate what good coaching looks like
• Use AI tools connected to Jira and Confluence to cut admin work, so more of your time goes to coaching

What you bring

• At least 5 years of relevant Agile delivery experience, including at least 2 years serving as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach supporting multiple teams concurrently.
• Command of both Scrum and Kanban, and the judgment to know which fits each team
• Specific examples of teams that measurably changed how they work under your coaching
• Experience using team metrics or maturity assessments to show improvement over time
• Experience coaching Product Owners and technical leads, not just team members
• Strong facilitation, direct feedback, and the ability to hold a standard under delivery pressure
• Working proficiency in Jira and flow metrics, and comfort using AI tools day to day
• Clear written and verbal communication with team members, technical leads, and business stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Advanced certification such as PSM II, CSP-SM, ICP-ACC, or KMP
• Facilitating quarterly program or PI planning
• Supporting teams through change controls in a regulated or audited environment
• Nonprofit or financial services experience

Why you'll like it here

• Shape how an entire IT organization works
• A team that values coaching, not just ceremonies
• Room to grow the practice, from your own teams to the Center of Excellence playbook
• A mission that matters: NPT helps donors and financial partners put philanthropy to work

Hybrid Work Schedule:

This position follows a hybrid work schedule and requires onsite presence in our Conshohocken, PA office every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.