Project Management Office; PMO Director

Project Management Office (PMO) Director

Olympia, United States | Posted on 02/27/2026

Redtech is helping our client with a Contractor search for a PMO Director with at least 5 recent years of experience in State or local Government
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Location - Remote, but reside in Western WA for occasional onsite meeting in Olympia, WA

Duration - through 6/30/26 - a 1 year extension is possible pending budgets in late Spring

Schedule - Monday through Friday, forty (40)

Contract Pay Rate Range - $75 - $85/hr W2 - this range assumes full benefits participation

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications and level of benefits selected etc.

• Choice of 2 Medical/RX insurance plans from Premera (Blue Cross/Blue Shield). Premium is 100% company paid by Redtech for employee.
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Company paid Life/AD&D insurance for employee - packaged with Medical insurance participation

The PMO Director will work with the CLIENT Program Director to evaluate Program objectives, the structure needed to enable those objectives, the needs to achieve that structure, and make recommendations to restructure the Program accordingly. The PMO Director will oversee the creation and operation of PMO functions for the Program, enabling success of the Program and its underlying projects through the foundational support provided by the PMO.

Establishing, leading, and maintaining the program management office, through the WCSM Roadmap to full realization of the WCSM vision. This includes maintaining and keeping the program aligned to industry-standard frameworks, and proven techniques, strategies, processes, and structures necessary to deliver projects and products within the WCSM Program. Processes and structures must be developed and maintained in compliance with best practices.

Developing and maintaining the PMO’s templates, tools, processes, and standards, including any reporting structures needed to effectively manage multiple projects. These templates, tools, processes, and standards must be informed by best practices while being developed and maintained.

Developing the framework and infrastructure to support program-level reporting metrics and trend analysis.

Collaborating with the WCSM Program’s contracted resources to ensure all aspects of the projects are being executed and the critical path is being managed.

Planning large-sized projects or multiple sub-projects. This includes working and partnering with project stakeholders to define scope and deliverables for projects, building cross-project work plans, working with project managers or project teams to estimate level of effort for project activities, and preparing detailed project schedules.

Managing and overseeing complex large-sized or multiple concurrent sub-projects within the WCSM Portfolio. This includes ensuring project work plans are up to date, managing project resources, monitoring project budgets (where applicable) and contract status, adjusting plans to ensure the project remains on the critical path, and reporting status to project stakeholders on a frequent basis.

Performing risk assessment activities across subordinate projects, including risk identification, mitigation, status, and tradeoff recommendations that balance strategic needs and tactical actions, including managing the issue and risk logs, escalating as appropriate to the WCSM Program Director.

Ensuring project closeout activities are completed and documented, including lessons learned, post-implementation report, transition plans, documentation clean up, resource release, etc.

Frequently collaborating with external oversight, including WaTech oversight consultants and quality assurance partners; reviewing and thoughtfully considering oversight recommendations, taking action to implement as appropriate.

Overseeing the establishment and operationalization of program governance, including steering committees, change control board,…