Hybrid IT Program Manager - Systems & Transformation

The Ocean Conservancy; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

401(a) retirement plan

Paid time off

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

The Ocean Conservancy is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead planning, coordination, and execution of major system and process redesign projects in a hybrid Washington, DC setting.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects are on budget, on time, and align with our mission to protect the ocean. The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and effective communication across teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience managing technology implementation, integration, or digital transformation projects.
• Understanding of enterprise systems integration, data management, and digital transformation principles.
• Exceptional project planning, organization, collaboration, and change management skills.
• Experience managing external professional-services vendors, including delivery against SOWs, milestones, budgets, and defined outcomes.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent, cross-functional initiatives and balancing competing organizational priorities and resources.
• Working knowledge of enterprise technology environments, including SaaS platforms, systems integration, identity/security, data, and cloud technologies sufficient to effectively manage technology-focused projects and vendors.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration platforms, with Jira experience strongly preferred; experience with Agile/Scrum reporting, dashboards, workflows, operations, and management is desirable.
• Strong communication and presentation abilities, with experience preparing materials for executive and board audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a central point of coordination between external firms, technical teams, functional departments, and executive leadership; identify and engage appropriate stakeholders, facilitate timely decision-making and follow-through, and provide regular updates to promote transparency and alignment.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items through resolution.
• Maintain project documentation, progress reports, and change management records.
• Working with communications teams, facilitate effective communication across the organization to promote understanding of project goals, progress, and impacts.
• Gather and integrate stakeholder feedback into project planning and execution.
• Prepare and deliver project updates, dashboards, and presentations for various audiences as needed
• Track vendor delivery against Statements of Work, milestones, deliverables, acceptance criteria, schedule, scope, and quality expectations.
• Monitor project budgets and expenditures; provide accurate forecasting and financial reporting.
• Help coordinate sessions to facilitate strategic prioritization discussions.
• Aggregate project activities, dependencies, and status across the organization into a project portfolio to provide visibility. Identify and elevate portfolio risks, conflicts, and resource constraints. Support the VP of IT & Integration in developing, maintaining, and tracking execution against the technology roadmap.
• Oversee external vendor PMs to ensure projects follow a structured process that aligns with OC’s standards.
• Act as an internal resource for smaller project teams, providing them guidance on methodology, tools, and templates. Help track the progress of those projects and adherence to schedule. Possibly recommend intervention or additional resources, if necessary.
• Lead medium-sized Ocean Conservancy projects as the primary PM, handling all aspects of planning, execution, and reporting. This would be required for projects that fall between our small team efforts that need light advisory support and our large enterprise initiatives which have typically have vendor PMs.

Skills

Project management

Vendor management

Communication

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Business

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Cloud technologies

Job description

The Ocean Conservancy is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead planning, coordination, and execution of major system and process redesign projects in a hybrid Washington, DC setting.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects are on budget, on time, and align with our mission to protect the ocean. The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and effective communication across teams.