Public Service Manager II - Project Manager

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Opening Date: March 02, 2026

Closing Date: March 13, 2026

Job Class Code: MH30
Grade: 30 Confidential
Salary: $79,027.52 - $
* Annually (
* includes 10% recruitment and retention stipend)
Position Number:

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Augusta

Telework: Available

Are you detail-oriented, great at building relationships, and interested in a supportive environment at the forefront of government innovation? The State of Maine Project Management Office (PMO) seeks a talented individual with a strong project management background, facilitation skills, and responsive communication styles to join our growing, dynamic, and collaborative team. This position will manage several concurrent projects across multiple agencies, offices, and teams, ranging from impact assessment to implementation and using defined project methodologies that require independent judgment, initiative, and discretion.

The Maine PMO fosters a culture of creativity and a commitment to successful project execution.

Maine

IT is seeking a highly talented individual who represents our C.A.R.E. values in all that they do. At Maine

IT we:

• Practice Customer-focus, ensuring that our customers are heard and their needs are met.
• Maintain a high level of Accountability by being transparent with stakeholders.
• Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates proactively.
• Strive to provide an Empathy-driven, people-focused service by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors.

PMO Project Managers support a broad portfolio of Maine’s strategic initiatives, supporting all sixteen agencies under the Executive Branch. As a member of the Project Management Team, you will work with a dynamic group of internal and external business partners and be accountable for leading project teams to achieve high-quality deliverables. This position manages multiple concurrent projects across agencies, offices, and teams.

A professional project manager should manage a project without extensive subject-matter knowledge.

We recognize that quality project initiation is critical to success. The position will manage initiatives through the project lifecycle after a business case is finalized, following PMBOK standard best practices.

Responsibilities may include initiating, developing, organizing, and producing project plans; detecting risks; managing budgets; influencing and implementing policy and procedure changes; identifying comprehensive strategic policies and methods that support operational business requirements; managing project audits, assessments, corrective actions, and best practices.

Use of the PMO’s project management suite will be required. This role also mentors others and advances continuous improvement of project management knowledge and skills within the organization.

• Deliver results for small‑to‑mid‑sized project initiatives within established time frames and quality measures.
• Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with them.
• Consult business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
• Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results. Translate project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by stakeholders, project teams, and others.
• Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non‑functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
• Oversee business requirements to meet expected solutions and trace the delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation.
• Maintain a general understanding of business requirement management and…