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IT Project Manager
Job no: 5111990
Work type: Full-Time (Salaried)
Location: Richmond (City), Virginia
Categories: Information Technology
Title: IT Project Manager
State Role Title: Project Manager
Hiring Range: $90,000-$115,000
Pay Band: UG
Agency: Attorney General & Dept of Law
Location: Office of the Attorney General
Agency Website: https://www.oag.state.va.us/
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
Chief Objective:
The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating, tracking, and reporting on IT projects and initiatives to ensure predictable delivery, transparency, and alignment with agency priorities. This role provides disciplined project management practices across IT while enabling technical and business leaders to retain ownership of scope, decisions, and outcomes.
This position functions as a neutral facilitator and integrator, supporting delivery across infrastructure, application, and end-user service domains without direct supervisory authority.
Work Tasks and Duties:
Project Intake, Planning, and Coordination
• Coordinate intake of IT project requests in alignment with CIO priorities and governance processes.
• Assist in defining project scope, objectives, timelines, and dependencies in collaboration with IT directors and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and documentation.
Execution Tracking and Reporting
• Track project progress, milestones, risks, and issues across IT initiatives.
• Identify schedule risks, resource constraints, and dependencies and escalate appropriately.
• Prepare regular status reports and dashboards for IT leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure project information is accurate, current, and transparent.
Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management
• Facilitate identification and documentation of project risks and mitigation strategies.
• Track issues and coordinate resolution with appropriate technical teams.
• Monitor cross-project dependencies and highlight potential conflicts.
Stakeholder Communication
• Serve as a central point of coordination for project communications.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and status updates.
• Support clear communication between IT teams and business stakeholders.
Standards, Governance, and Continuous Improvement
• Serve as the coordinator and chair of the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring required stakeholders are engaged, change readiness and risk inputs are documented, decisions are recorded, and conflicts are escalated appropriately.
• Apply established project management standards and methodologies consistently.
• Support post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned activities.
• Recommend improvements to project management practices and tools.
• Performs other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
• Knowledge of project management principles and practices.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and documentation skills.
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and delivery issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Additional Considerations
Project Management Professional (PMP), CAPM, or equivalent project management certification.
Special Instructions
Kindly utilize the Virginia Jobs website (https://www.jobs.virginia.gov) to submit your application. Applications sent to the Recruitment email address will not be reviewed for the hiring process. We do not entertain phone calls or emails inquiring about application status; instead, please login to the PageUp/RMS system for updates on your application's status.
Contact Information
Name: OAG Recruitment
Phone: 804-786-2071
Email: recruitment@oag.state.va.us
In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.
Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.
Advertised: 11 Sep 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
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