Agility Lead

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Position:Agility Lead

Location: Conshohocken/Hybrid, PA

Job :748

# of Openings:1

Agility Lead

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 their entrepreneurial spirit and talents 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.

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 with in 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Prepare your teams for quarterly planning, including backlog readiness, capacity, and dependencies, and facilitate their team planning
• Carry dependencies between your…