Assistant Director, IT PMO & Portfolio Delivery

Virginia Community Colleges; Virginia; On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) seeks an Assistant Director of IT Project Management to lead the PMO, set governance, and deliver a diverse IT project portfolio. You will partner with academic services, student services, finance, HR, and facilities to translate priorities into scoped, resourced projects.

Reporting to the Director of IT Business Operations, you will manage complex, high-visibility programs and collaborate across multiple teams and vendors to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to read, interpret, and communicate project procedures, technical requirements, and business processes.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail, documentation accuracy, and adherence to deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical teams and troubleshoot issues related to project dependencies, system changes, or cloud transitions.
• Knowledge of core project management practices, software development lifecycle, documentation standards, and governance processes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a project team.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and work effectively under pressure.
• Knowledgeable of PMO frameworks and delivery methodologies.
• Ability to lead cross-functional or matrixed project teams whose members report to other units.
• Ability to implement and interpret technical policies, processes, or project governance standards
• Proficiency in Microsoft suite of products.
• Experience managing information technology projects, including full life-cycle responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Experience supervising or serving as a team lead for project management and/or technical staff.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-scale technology projects with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience supporting or coordinating system transitions, digital modernization, or enterprise‑level initiatives.
• Experience establishing or maturing a project management office, including methodology development and tool implementation.
• Experience with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, SaaS platforms), integration patterns, and system modernization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily project activities, schedules, deliverables, and status reporting across multiple concurrent projects.
• Supervises a small staff of one to two project management professionals while personally managing the College’s most complex and highest-visibility technology projects.
• Directs technical staff drawn from other IT units, functional subject matter experts from across the College, and external vendor resources.
• Serve as a communication bridge between technical and business teams, including developers, analysts, product managers, QA, and security.
• Support planning, scope clarification, resource coordination, and execution activities—especially for cloud‑based initiatives and system transitions.
• Track dependencies, risks, issues, and timelines; elevate concerns with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Contribute to the creation, improvement, and maintenance of PMO project management governance, standards, templates, dashboards, and documentation.
• Provide guidance to ensure consistency in documentation, tracking, reporting, and governance.
• Coordinate with business analysts on requirements and with technical teams on dependencies, integration points, and environment readiness.
• Communicate project updates to stakeholders with transparency around progress, milestones, risks, and impacts.
• Assist with portfolio‑level reporting and PMO process improvements to strengthen delivery maturity.
• Evaluate technology constraints, system impacts, data considerations, and integration requirements during planning
• Make regular requests from employees for updates and input on college decisions and share feedback with supervisors for inclusion in the NOVA Brief.

Skills

PMO leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Project scheduling

Cloud transitions

Governance reporting

Jira

Azure DevOps

SharePoint

MS Project

Communication

Team leadership

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

SharePoint

MS Project

Job description

Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) seeks an Assistant Director of IT Project Management to lead the PMO, set governance, and deliver a diverse IT project portfolio. You will partner with academic services, student services, finance, HR, and facilities to translate priorities into scoped, resourced projects.

Reporting to the Director of IT Business Operations, you will manage complex, high-visibility programs and collaborate across multiple teams and vendors to ensure successful outcomes.