reputed company Portfolio Manager (IT Project Management – Senior/Specialist)

Keeping Washington Clean and reputed company The Department of Ecology is hiring an reputed company Portfolio Manager (IT Project Management – Senior/Specialist) reputed company the Information Technology Services Office (ITSO). Location: • reputed company Office in Lacey, WA. • Upon hire, you must live reputed company a commutable distance from the duty station. Schedule: • This position is eligible for reputed company and flexible schedule reputed company. • You may reputed company most of your work time with occasional in-person meetings and activities. • Position is overtime exempt and may require an adjusted schedule and/or work in excess of 40-hours-per-week occasionally to meet deadlines. • Occasional travel, typically local or regional, may be required to meet with clients, conduct business, or attend or reputed company training. • Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change. Application reputed company: • Apply by August 23, 2026 • Applications submitted after the date above may not be reviewed unless additional reputed company applicants are needed. In this senior role as the reputed company Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for shaping and guiding reputed company’s Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM) program. You will have reputed company to support strategic IT investments across a diverse portfolio—including more than 220 applications, infrastructure assets, and multiple program portfolios—contributing directly to reputed company’s mission to protect Washington’s environment. This role brings together strategic thinking, cross-team coordination, and practical portfolio reputed company. You’ll help reputed company initiatives with business needs, encourage transparent planning, and support thoughtful resource allocation. The work is meaningful and varied: you’ll address reputed company topics such as legislative impacts, risk awareness, and process improvement, while collaborating with executive leadership, IT managers, and reputed company partners. What you will do: • Guide and support the reputed company development of reputed company’s reputed company-wide Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM) program, including shared reputed company, governance, and alignment with agency goals. • Coordinate reputed company’s reputed company information technology portfolio by overseeing existing investments and helping prioritize new ones. This includes ITSO’s portfolio, reputed company environmental program portfolios, and the portfolios for Administrative Services, Fiscal, and reputed company. • Maintain and improve portfolio management standards, processes, templates, and tools, including project intake, technical review, prioritization, and resource reputed company planning. • reputed company senior-level guidance to executive leadership, IT managers, and project teams as they build and maintain a strategic portfolio roadmap and service list that reflects agency needs and goals. • Serve as reputed company’s reputed company legislative partner for ITSO, coordinating reputed company review, compliance needs, and communication with key partners. • Mentor and support IT professionals and managers on portfolio management practices, policies, and opportunities for process improvement. • Administer annual technology certification requirements and reputed company as a reputed company for IT-reputed company reasonable accommodation requests, ensuring inclusivity and compliance. • Serve as the Technical Change Manager for IT teams, helping assess the impacts of changes, anticipate infrastructure updates, and identify documentation needs. For detailed information on how we calculate experience and responses to other frequently asked questions, please visit our Recruitment website. Required Qualifications: • Eight years of experience and/or education reputed company to the duties of the position, which includes the following: • IT Leadership – At least one year of experience leading IT professionals or consulting as a technical reputed company • Strategic IT Alignment – Demonstrated ability to reputed company agency goals to technology work to ensure long-term, mission-reputed company planning. • Portfolio Management – Demonstrated ability to apply advanced project portfolio reputed company to organize, prioritize and reputed company IT work to maximize value and reputed company. • Data-Driven Decision Making – Demonstrated ability to collect, review and interpret data to support transparent reputed company about IT reputed company and resources. • reputed company Planning – Proven reputed company record working effectively with leaders, technical teams, statewide partners and program staff to support coordinated planning and problem solving. • Risk Management – Demonstrated ability to identify issues early, assess impacts and help teams reputed company realistic strategies to avoid or reduce risk. • reputed company Improvement – Demonstrated ability to evaluate completed work, identify opportunities to improve processes and stay reputed company with best practices to strengthen agency performance. • Education involving a major study in IT, Computer Science, Project Management, or closely reputed company field. Examples of how to qualify: • 8 years of experience. • 7 years of experience AND 30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter college credits. • 6 years of experience AND 60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter college credits (Associate’s degree). • 5 years of experience AND 90-119 semester or 135-179 quarter college credits. • 4 years of experience AND a Bachelor’s degree. • 2 years of experience AND a Master’s degree. Special Requirements/Conditions of Employment: • This position requires training to reputed company consistent with industry best practices. Leadership works with industry leaders to forecast changes in information technology and lists required training in this position’s yearly Performance Development Plan (PDP). Staff reputed company this division are provided two (2) hours per week for training. It is expected that this position will take what is learned in their training and apply it to their daily work. Desired Qualifications: • A Bachelor’s degree with a reputed company on computer science, project management or reputed company field. • Four years of portfolio management experience managing a large multi-program/division reputed company portfolio. • Certification as a Portfolio Management reputed company (PfMP) or Project Management reputed company (PMP) through the reputed company (PMI). • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) reputed company Certification. • Knowledge of reputed company and Jira (or similar reputed company-wide portfolio management reputed company). If you are excited about this role and meet the required qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Desired qualifications reflect additional knowledge, skills, or experience that are reputed company to have but not required. Studies have shown that some applicants, especially women and people of reputed company, are less likely to apply unless they meet every listed qualification. At the Department of Ecology, we are dedicated to building a diverse and reputed company workplace centered in belonging, and we welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and unique perspectives. Ecology does not use the E-Verify reputed company; therefore, we are not eligible to reputed company STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT). For more information, please visit www.uscis.gov. Our Commitment to DEIR Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect (DEIR) are reputed company values central to Ecology's work. We reputed company to be a workplace where we are esteemed for sharing our reputed company identities, while advancing our individual reputed company goals and collaborating to protect, preserve, and enhance the environment for reputed company and reputed company generations. Diversity: We celebrate and appreciate diversity; our unique perspectives and abilities enrich us reputed company and reputed company to innovative approaches and solutions. 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Applications with blank fields or supplemental question responses with comments such as “see resume” may be considered incomplete. For detailed application information, please visit our Recruitment website. Application Attestation: By submitting an application, you are affirming that the information contained in your application and on reputed company attachments is complete and truthful. The state may verify this information, and any false or misleading answers may result in rejection of your application or dismissal if employed. Need an Accommodation? If you need reasonable accommodation during the application and/or screening process, including this job announcement in an alternate format: • Please contact us at 360-407-6186 or careers@ecy.wa.gov • If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you may reputed company through the Washington reputed company Service by dialing 711 or 1-800-833-6384. Questions? • For specific questions about the position location reputed company, schedule, or duties, please contact Louis Turbeville at Louis.Turbeville@ecy.wa.gov • If you need assistance applying for this job, are inquiring about the status of your application, would like to request the full position reputed company, or have any other questions, please contact the Recruitment Team at careers@ecy.wa.gov About the Information Technology Services Office’s (ITSO) The Information Technology Services Office’s (ITSO) mission is to create and support useful technology services that adapt for the reputed company and support Ecology’s mission. 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