Project Manager - Public Service Manager II

Location: Augusta,Maine,United States

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE & FINANCIAL SERVICES

PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

Opening Date: May 6, 2025

Closing Date:  May 20, 2025

Job Class Code: MH30
Grade: 30
Salary: $79,027.52 - $111,745.92*/Annually (includes 10% recruitment & retention stipend)
Position Number: 004201271

Hybrid Work Opportunity – This position is a hybrid remote/onsite position. The onsite location is in Augusta, Maine, and the remote location must be within the state of Maine.

OVERVIEW:

Are you detail-oriented, great at building relationships, and interested in working 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, adept facilitation skills, and responsive communication styles to join our growing, dynamic, and collaborative team.

This position will be responsible for several concurrent projects spanning multiple agencies, offices, and teams. The efforts range from impact assessment to implementation and use of defined project methodologies that require independent judgment, initiative, and discretion. The Maine PMO has a supportive culture of creativity and a commitment to successful project execution.  

ABOUT THE JOB DETAILS:

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 have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of internal/external business partners and be accountable for leading project teams to achieve their high-quality deliverables. This position will be responsible for several concurrent projects spanning multiple agencies, offices, and teams. A professional project manager should be able to manage a project without extensive knowledge of the subject matter.

We recognize that quality project initiation is critical to the success of projects and initiatives. The position will manage initiatives through the project lifecycle after a business case has been finalized. The PM will participate in defining the scope, dependencies, and project approach following PMBOK standard best practices.  

Responsibilities may include initiating, developing, organizing, and producing project plans; detecting risks; managing budgets, influencing/developing 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 position is responsible for mentoring others and contributing to the continuous improvement of project management knowledge and skills in the organization. 

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Project Management:

• Deliver results for small to mid-sized project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Identifies project stakeholders and manages communication with the project stakeholders.
• 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 the timely delivery of initiative results. Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project 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 business solutions and trace the delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation
• General understanding of business requirement management and quality management.
• Ensures that project documentation is complete and current.
• Articulate project management best practices with peer groups where applicable.

Leadership:

• Proactively establish and maintain cooperative and productive partnerships on current projects/deliverables