Job title : Program Management Office (PMO) Director
Location: Olympia, WA 98504
Key responsibilities
- Overall PMO direction: Establish, lead, and maintain the PMO; define and maintain templates, tools, processes, and standards; build programlevel reporting, metrics, and trend analysis; and coordinate with contracted resources to manage critical paths.
- Project and portfolio delivery: Plan large projects and subprojects, build integrated work plans and schedules, manage resources and budgets, oversee multiple concurrent projects, monitor and escalate risks and issues, and ensure structured project closeout with lessons learned.
- Governance: Stand up and operationalize program governance bodies (steering committee, change control board, architecture and automation governance boards) and ensure timely, accurate status and escalation for decisions.
- Budget, procurement, and vendors: Ensure adequate project budgeting, standard expenditure reporting, and effective use of state and federal funds; lead procurement, contract, and vendor management practices; support vendor integration and SOW execution/deliverable review.
- Stakeholder engagement and communications: Lead communications workstreams, ensure consistent information flow across state government stakeholders, facilitate key meetings, and build strong partnerships with impacted groups to support planning and change management.
Required and preferred qualifications
Client requires an active PMP (or equivalent), 10+ years of program/project management on similarly large efforts, including at least 5 years leading largescale projects. It specifies experience with large IT/business modernization portfolios, state or local government, complex business transformations, vendor management, standard PMO processes (risk/issue, change, budget, schedule, status), and tools like Microsoft Project, plus demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and build trust with executives and oversight bodies.
Preferred qualifications include workers compensation professional certification and demonstrated use of AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini) to make project management more efficient
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