Provide strategic oversight across all active project workstreams, ensuring alignment of scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issue management with program-level objectives and client expectations
Develop, maintain and execute detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with client governance structures and reporting requirements
Build, manage, and mentor a team of project managers and consultants, setting performance expectations, conducting reviews, and fostering professional development across the practice
Establish and enforce PMO governance frameworks, delivery standards, and reporting cadences across all active engagements, ensuring consistency and quality of project outputs
Oversee resource allocation, capacity planning, and staffing decisions across concurrent projects, ensuring teams are appropriately structured to meet engagement demands
Manage relationships with executive sponsors, steering committees, and cross-functional stakeholders across state agency environments
Define and continuously improve delivery methodology, templates, and tooling used across the PMO to drive efficiency, quality, and repeatability
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-powered tools to enhance project delivery, including applications such as automated reporting, risk pattern recognition, requirements analysis, or stakeholder communication drafting
Comfort evaluating and adopting emerging tools that improve efficiency and output quality on complex engagements
Facilitate project status reporting, executive briefings, and governance checkpoints
Oversee configuration, testing, and validation of project activities, ensuring all aspects of project planning and execution meet quality and timeline expectations
Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams
Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery
Collaborate with OCM, training, and communications teams to ensure PMO outputs and delivery milestones support adoption and readiness activities
Engage and build foundational relationships with customers, project sponsors, vendors and external stakeholders
Coach and mentor both Liberum team members and client-side staff to build internal project management capability and strengthen delivery maturity
Identify opportunities to provide or create additional client value throughout the engagement lifecycle
Proactively communicate project progress, risks, and value delivered to client stakeholders ensuring visibility into team contributions throughout the engagement
Drive clarity and alignment when project conditions are ambiguous, off-track, or politically complex, including developing recovery plans and realignment strategies
Develop and maintain detailed MS Project plans with dependencies, resource loading, and elaborated tasks; apply hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches appropriate to the engagement context
Deliver status updates and executive reporting in visually compelling formats that tell the right story for the right audience

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
8+ years of progressive project management experience, including at least 3 years in a PMO leadership, program management, or director-level role overseeing multiple concurrent projects and direct reports
Minimum 5 years of public sector experience, with direct work in state or local government environments strongly preferred
Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in highly regulated or politically sensitive environments
Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement, including steering committees and sponsor briefings
Demonstrated experience building, staffing, and managing PMO teams, including hiring, performance management, and professional development of project managers and analysts
Experience establishing PMO governance frameworks, delivery standards, and quality assurance processes across complex programs
Strong writing skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise deliverables for both technical audiences and executive stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, complex, or politically sensitive environments and drive clarity without waiting for direction
Hybrid methodology fluency, ability to blend Agile and Waterfall approaches pragmatically based on project and client needs
Proficiency in MS Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including dependency mapping and resource-loaded plans
Professional courage to deliver difficult findings and recommendations with data, grace, and actionable solutions
Proven ability to lead distributed teams, manage competing priorities across multiple engagements, and operate effectively within a remote or hybrid team environment
Exceptional client relationship management skills
PMP certification or equivalent project management credential required
PgMP, PfMP, or equivalent portfolio/program management certification a plus

Benefits

Liberum offers a comprehensive benefits package with full medical, dental, life, short term disability coverage and 401k (4% matching, no vested period).
Salary range varies between $150-170k annually based on experience/level of hire.
PTO and Sick Leave are provided to all full-time employees. Liberum also offers 9 paid holidays per year.
Paid vacation time of regular full-time employees will be earned and accrued on each pay date. At the end of the calendar year, unused vacation will roll over into the next calendar year.
0 -5 yrs, FTE 15 days (120 hours), 5 hours accrued per pay cycle (bi-monthly)
5+ yrs, FTE 20 days (160 hours), 6.67 hours accrued per pay cycle (bi-monthly)
As a WA state employer, we follow all WA state ordinances ensuring employees accrue sick leave at a rate of 1hr per 40 hours worked.
At the end of the calendar year, all unused vacation will roll over into the next calendar year.
We also offer a Bonus Leave program for employees interested in participating.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementPMO governance frameworksAgile methodologyWaterfall methodologyresource allocationcapacity planningrisk managementstakeholder engagementexecutive reportingdependency mapping

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingrelationship managementstrategic oversightperformance managementprofessional developmentadaptabilityclarity in ambiguity

Certifications

PMPPgMPPfMP