Global Head of Digital Project Management (Remote)

About the role

Generation, a global nonprofit that trains and places adult learners into careers, is hiring a Global Head of Digital Project Management on a full-time, remote basis. The Project Management function ensures accountability for every Digital project, provides a single channel for updates and decisions across Technology, Product and Design teams, tracks commitments, risks and deadlines, and gives the Global Director of Digital a consolidated view of all projects.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and organize the Project Leads, assign them to projects by region, monitor their performance and support their growth.
• Support the Global Director of Digital in defining the project management strategy, standards and ways of working.
• Own follow-up and status reporting across all projects and synthesize it into clear communications.
• Work with the Global Head of Technology & Infrastructure and the Global Head of Software Product & Product Design to keep product, technology and delivery aligned.
• Strengthen communication between global teams and Generation affiliates, and support grant writing and follow-up with funders.
• Maintain a consistent project management methodology (planning, scoping, governance, change control) and ensure every project has a named Project Lead with clear scope, milestones, owners and success criteria.
• Organize the project portfolio by region (America, LATAM, Europe, SAMEA, APAC) and coordinate priorities and dependencies with the Technology & Infrastructure and Product teams.
• Track commitments, risks and deadlines, escalate issues early, and propose mitigation plans for anticipated delivery risks.
• Run project cadences such as status meetings, steering committees and release and rollout communications, and communicate the impact of changes in scope, timing or priorities.

Required profile

• Undergraduate degree plus 3+ years of work experience in project or management in a technology or product-building environment.
• Experience leading and developing project managers or project leads.
• Experience coordinating distributed, multi-country teams.
• English and Spanish speaking, able to adapt messages to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum or similar) is a plus.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of agile and hybrid delivery methods and project management tools.
• Ability to use data to track progress, anticipate risks and drive decisions.
• Proven experience managing a portfolio of projects, including planning, risk management and stakeholder reporting.