Salary: £43,397 - £54,806, depending on experience
Location: Remote (with option to work from Oxford office)
Contract: Full-time or part-time, with flexible working options (0.7-1 FTE)
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager who can lead digital projects for charities, NGOs, public sector bodies, and purpose-driven organisations. You will help teams deliver high-quality work on time and within budget, using a blend of agile practices and our own evolving delivery approach.
Agile Collective has 3-5 new large projects every year, along with a number of smaller phases of work from existing clients. We use our own process - a combination of Design Thinking and agile methodologies - in order to deliver on budget and build genuinely effective software.
You will work closely with designers, developers, and clients to create clarity, remove blockers, and ensure everyone is aligned around a shared understanding of what we’re building and why.
This is a hands-on delivery role for someone who enjoys facilitating teamwork, communicating clearly, creating structure, and supporting clients to make good decisions.
Contractors considered
If you are interested in taking on a role like this with us on a freelance basis, please email hello@agile.coop
What you might find yourself doing
- Planning, coordinating, and delivering small-to-large web projects
- Running sprint rituals: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retros, and demos
- Managing timelines, risks, scope, and budgets
- Facilitating communication between clients, designers, and developers
- Supporting teams to break down tasks and maintain clear backlogs
- Maintaining delivery documentation and ensuring consistent use of templates
- Building strong, open, long-lasting relationships with clients
- Supporting clients to understand user needs, constraints, and priorities
- Helping maintain calm and clarity when projects are complex or high-pressure
- Ensuring successful UAT, QA, launch, and post-launch processes
About you
You'll thrive in this role if you:
- Have experience running digital or software delivery projects
- Are comfortable facilitating teams and creating delivery structure
- Communicate clearly and transparently with clients
- Experience with agile methodology (scrum or kanban)
- Can handle difficult conversations in a constructive way
- Manage scope and budget carefully
- Bring energy, warmth, and clarity to your teams
- Can work effectively in a distributed, self-managing organisation
- Are passionate about helping purpose-driven organisations build better digital products
Key competencies we're looking for are:
- Motivational and clear
- Problem-solving
- Positive and flexible
- Scheduling, delegating, task-setting and evaluation skills
- Familiarity with agile and other methodologies and their tools.
It is also desirable (but not necessary) for you to have:
- Experience with Drupal, WordPress, or other open-source CMS
- Familiarity with design thinking or service design
- An interest in accessibility, QA, analytics, or adjacent skills
- Experience working in agencies or managing multiple concurrent projects
- Experience with co-operatives, public sector, charities, education, or NGOs
- An interest in becoming a co-owner of a values-led co-operative business
Benefits
As a worker co-operative you have ownership and control over your work, and over how we reward ourselves as members. Here are some of the existing benefits but you could help shape these if you become a member.
- flexible working hours and location
- enhanced parental leave
- generous training budget
- ethical pension
- mobile phone
- career break
- 'good causes' pot for members
You can view the benefits and ways of working at Agile Collective in our handbook.
How to apply
- What attracted you to apply for this role at Agile Collective?
- Tell us about your experience delivering digital projects
- Please describe a project where delivery became challenging
- How do you run projects?
- How well do you work in a cooperative, low-hierarchy environment
Apply now
To apply for this role please complete this form by Monday, 19 January 2026 at 9:00am GMT.
If you have any questions about the role or the processes please add contact us at hello@agile.coop