Lead Project Manager

Public Consulting Group (PCG) is hiring a Lead Project Manager to lead client engagements within its Technology Consulting team. The role manages project delivery, teams, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications while supporting public-sector clients and contributing to proposals and regulatory analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates programs and makes recommendations for improvements
• Assesses best practices and provides technical assistance to clients
• Serves as Lead Project Manager on client engagements, managing projects of varying size and complexity with limited supervision while meeting and exceeding performance expectations
• Develops and maintains project management plans, including scope, work breakdown structure, schedule, milestones, deliverables, resource, communication, quality, and risk management plans, and applies standard methodologies, governance, tools, and templates to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery
• Manages project schedule, budget, and resources, including forecasting, tracking actuals against plan, monitoring utilization, and supporting invoicing and financial reporting
• Facilitates client discussions
• Leads, mentors, and motivates project teams, setting clear expectations, monitoring performance, and fostering collaboration among client, subcontractor, and PCG staff
• Identifies, tracks, and mitigates project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, and escalates to client and PCG leadership as appropriate
• Leads project status meetings, steering committees, and stakeholder briefings, and prepares status reports, dashboards, and executive-level communications
• Manages contract and scope compliance, including statement of work deliverables, change control, deliverable review and acceptance, and quality assurance
• Participates in sales motions related to the practice, including developing project approaches, work plans, level-of-effort estimates, staffing plans, and pricing inputs for proposed engagements
• Leads proposal writing teams, including writing sections, coordinating efforts, and preparing proposal submissions
• Analyzes and interprets federal and state law and regulation
• Prepares other written reports and materials for clients

Requirements:

• Ability to understand both the service delivery system for programs which are administered by states and monitored by federal regulators
• Ability to understand and be an expert in complex federal regulations and requirements
• Strong Microsoft Office applications skills
• Ability to use sound judgment in completing tasks and to seek guidance when needed
• Attention to detail and ability to work with large data sets with accurate results
• Ability to move projects forward within a specific timeline and budget while working at a detailed level
• Strong project management skills, including planning, scheduling, scope, budget, risk, issue, and change management, using tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, or Jira
• Commitment to exceptional client service
• Creative problem-solving ability and a consultancy mindset
• Dedication to accomplishing goals and challenges presented by clients and management
• Ability to interact with various levels of management and with clients
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build trust with executive sponsors, align diverse stakeholders, and manage expectations
• Flexible, self-starter possessing intellectual curiosity
• Enthusiasm for life-long learning and staying well-informed about current business issues
• Able to follow, critically evaluate, and improve upon current processes
• Excellent business writing skills and ability to make presentations to various audiences
• Ability to recognize issues and identify solutions
• Bachelor's degree or 5 years' experience required
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• 3+ years of experience leading complex projects or workstreams
• preferably in a state or federal government, health and human services, or technology implementation setting
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or comparable project management certification preferred