Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) Manager

Title: Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) Manager

State Role Title: Info Technology Manager II

Hiring Range: $140,000 - $165,000

Pay Band: 7

Agency: VA Information Tech Agency

Location: VA Information Technologies

Agency Website: https://www.vita.virginia.gov/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Virginia IT Agency (VITA) is excited to offer a competitive opportunity to serve as the Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) Manager. Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) Manager functions as a key member of the Customer Experience directorate and the Commonwealth.

This position focuses on advancing project management maturity across the Commonwealth, ensuring the success of high-risk and high-priority projects, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Job responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

The role serves as a leader of operations and ongoing improvement, enabling the alignment of project management practices with VITA’s broader strategic objectives, including IT modernization, customer experience enhancement, and organizational transformation.

This role will communicate complex information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners.

The candidate will facilitate productive discussions, resolves conflict with tact, and ensures alignment across all project phases.

Support development of risk management reporting and dashboard tools.

Provide high risk project mentoring and risk management as assigned.

Join VITA at The Boulders in Richmond, VA, where innovation meets impact! As the Commonwealth’s leading IT agency, we’re connecting, protecting, innovating, and powering Virginia’s digital future through collaboration, creativity, and purpose.

Our team thrives in a vibrant, customer-focused environment that values growth, accountability, and forward thinking — all while making technology work for every corner of Virginia.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience in IT leadership managing diverse teams (25+ staff) in high-performance, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Extensive knowledge of enterprise-level, complex IT projects, including public cloud implementations (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, or Google Cloud).

• Extensive experience in project management strategy development and execution.

• Extensive experience in data analytics to guide decision-making and assess outcomes.

• Extensive experience in strategic Planning, assessing risks, and opportunities.

• Extensive experience in budget planning and management for large organizations.

• Extensive experience working with internal/external stakeholders.

• Extensive experience in meeting deadlines.

• Extensive experience with interpreting and applying of federal, state laws/regulations.

Additional Considerations

• Experience in the State or Federal government as an employee, contractor, or vendor.

• Training or certifications as a PMP, PgMP, PfMP, FAC-COR, DOD COR.

• Training or certifications as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or other agile roles or methodologies.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

This position is eligible for one (1) day telework.

Applicants must consent to a fingerprint background check.

The Commonwealth of Virginia welcomes all applicants authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not provided; therefore, applicants must be a citizen or national of the U.S., a Lawful Permanent Resident, or an alien authorized to work.

State applications and/or resumes will only be accepted as submitted online by 11:55 p.m. on the closing date through the state applicant tracking system. We will not accept applications, resumes, cover letters, etc. in any other format. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided in the application and/or resume.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons