PMO Director - Consultant

Liberum • Olympia, WA

4h • $150 - $170

About The Position

About Liberum
Liberum is first and foremost a team. A team that does what it takes to deliver extraordinary results while living our values. We are passionate about client success because we know that we’re making a positive change for that person, others and the whole organization.
We believe extraordinary results are built on relationships. How we interact, share, guide, and mentor make it possible to lead people through meaningful change and leave our clients with lasting capability long after an engagement ends.
Liberum's tailored approach to technology consulting, organizational change management, and AI solution delivery has earned the trust of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies alike. We know that adoption and total engagement equals success, and that success can only be achieved by tailoring the approach to the specific initiative and the specific organization.
The Role
The PMO Director will lead and oversee the project management office on large-scale Washington State ERP initiatives, providing strategic direction, team leadership, and governance across multiple concurrent workstreams. This consultant will serve in a complex, high-stakes program where their ability to build, mentor, and manage high-performing PMO team members will directly shape how transformation unfolds across state agencies and the people they serve. If you want to put your signature on work that matters at scale, this is that opportunity.
We are looking for someone who brings deep public sector experience, hands-on PMO management, and a proven track record of standing up and running PMOs on complex programs. You know how to staff, structure, and scale project teams to meet evolving program demands. You set the standard for delivery methodology, reporting cadence, and governance rigor across your teams. You hold PMs accountable, remove blockers, and ensure consistent quality across all workstreams. You are also conversant in AI tools, you understand both their potential and their limitations, and you know how emerging automation capabilities affect process design, training, and delivery on programs like these.
What sets you apart is not just your resume. You operate with an ownership mentality, drive clarity when things get messy, and deliver hard truths to executive stakeholders with data and a plan already in hand. You build teams that reflect your standards, develop your people intentionally, and create environments where PMs and analysts do their best work. You make your value visible, communicate proactively, and genuinely enjoy leading a high-performing team. At Liberum, you will work alongside people who hold the same standard, with the autonomy, support, and quality of client work to keep pushing your own growth. If you are exceptional at what you do and want to work somewhere that genuinely recognizes and rewards that, we would love to talk.

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

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Business, Public Administration, Information Systems, or related field
• State of Washington agency experience, particularly with large technology project implementation
• Experience with COTS implementation in public sector environments
• Familiarity with Washington State procurement and contracting processes
• Experience directing and holding accountable SI (System Integrator) teams on large-scale ERP programs
• PgMP, PfMP, or equivalent portfolio/program management certification a plus
• Prosci or equivalent OCM certification

Responsibilities

• 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

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level