Interim Associate Project Manager

Textile Exchange

$75K — $100K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Intermediate project management experience required.
  • Experience with cross-functional projects essential.
  • Familiarity with industry reporting and membership engagement is necessary.
  • Positive attitude with strong problem-solving and agile mindset needed.
  • Experience with backlog refinement and agile ceremonies expected.
  • Proficient in project management tools, preferably ClickUp.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the New Membership transition project and its related interventions.
  • Act as the central point of contact, ensuring project momentum and visibility.
  • Support project teams in task movement and decision-making to remove roadblocks.
  • Maintain regular communication with the project team for progress tracking.
  • Ensure appropriate documentation and visibility for stakeholders.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks to support project success.
  • Facilitate meetings and agendas for cross-functional alignment.

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity with global reach, preference for Europe/North America.
  • Full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
  • Up to 20% travel required for project needs.
Full Job Description
Associate Project Manager Reports to: Project Management Office Lead Remote - Global (Preference for Europe/North America) Position Summary Looking for a maternity cover for approximately 7-8 months to support our New Membership Transition project. The ideal candidate can hit the ground running and continue established ways of working and existing mechanisms, with experience and understanding of industry reporting, engagement, and partnership frameworks. The objective is not to reinvent the wheel during this period, but to ensure smooth continuity and support execution with a positive attitude, agile mindset, and strong problem-solving approach. Ideal candidate should be available to start from mid-September 2026. Key Responsibilities 37Primarily manage the New Membership transition project and related cross functional interventions. 37Serve as key point of contact for the project and ensure continued momentum, shared visibility, alignment, and appropriate level of documentation. 37Ensure existing project structure is supported by working closely with project teams to support movement of tasks, progress tracking, decision making, and removing roadblocks, for ease of implementation and execution. Primary Duties and Responsibilities 37Important to keep the momentum going based on consistency, alignment, visibility: by supporting project teams in its execution of the project plan by fostering cross-functional alignment and visibility on the project as well as ensuring project teams follow consistent agreed upon ways of working. 37Critical to maintain regular touchpoints with entire project team, oversee and ensure team regularly uses Click Up to track and showcase progress, help the team refine backlog and priorities continuously. 37Maintain regular alignment with the Sponsors, Product Owner and Project Lead. 37Support right level of documentation with decisions and directions, ensuring cross functional visibility with relevant stakeholders. 37Ensure a high degree of visibility for stakeholders and decision-makers involved in the project. 37Maintain project roadmap and proactively identify, flag, and mitigate risks to project delivery in collaboration with experts to support the success of the project. 37Organize information and agendas andconvenetask teams,facilitatemeetings, and other activities to coordinate cross-functional work and external input to deliver project milestones. 37Maintaining positive and supportive relationship with stakeholders is key for success of this role. 37Comfortably provide appropriate project reminders and follow-ups. 37Manage scope creep and facilitate scope change requests. Secondary Duties and Responsibilities 37Participate in Project Management Office meetings and attend Departmental/ organizational meetings etc. to build overall context. 37Meet weekly with PMO leadership to provide project updates and escalate any concerns or challenges that arise. Minimum Qualifications 37Intermediate level to project management experience. 37Experience on cross-functional projects. 37Experience and understanding of industry reporting, membership engagement, and partnership landscape to allow appropriate interventions and support as a Project Maternity Cover. 37Positive attitude, problem-solving and agile mindset, ability to understand the needs of internal stakeholders. 37Experience with backlog refinement, hosting agile ceremonies, sharing updates with the team and leadership, documenting and mitigating risks and dependencies, tracking key decisions, mapping timelines, and supporting scope and resource management. We are a young PMO and formal ways of working are new to many people at the organization so in order to succeed, candidate must be able to work with people who do not have much knowledge of project management. 37Experience using project management tool to run projects. Preferred Qualifications 37ClickUp experience 37Non-profit experience would be great, especially relevance of working with different groups of stakeholders. 37Experience working at or with membership organizations is a plus. 37Preference to European time zone, with flexibility and ability to integrate a few working hours with the US time zone when required. 37Lean management style is a must! 37PMP, PRINCE, Scrum Master, Kanban Practitioner or other project management certification preferred. 37Someone who can take up work smoothly andensure the set cadence is followed, without much disruption or need to introduce new ways of working or mechanisms unless necessary and aligned with project leadership (sponsors & owners) Employment Package 37Full-Time Position, 40 Hours a Week 37Required travel: up to 20% 37Annual Salary Range: $75,000 - $100,000 USD FTE ($60,000 - $80,000)

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