Head of Project Management (Remote)

Consultant-Project Control Manager is a key member of the Program Management Office (PMO) and serves as the primary owner of the Master Project Schedule for a child support modernization project. This role is responsible for project controls governance, including schedule management, resource planning, forecasting, risk management, issue management, scope control, change control, and executive reporting.

Working closely with the Project Manager and members of the project team, the Project Control Manager ensures project plans, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables are integrated into a comprehensive Master Project Schedule and aligned with approved project objectives.

The Project Control Manager provides leadership in developing project control processes, schedule governance, performance measurement, and forecasting to support on-time, successful project delivery.

Collaborate with project managers on various initiatives and projects to track progress and provide support as necessary.

Support leadership in ensuring that the project is delivered to specifications, is on time, and within budget.

Work closely with management and work groups to create and maintain work plan documents.

Track the status and due dates of projects.

Manage relationships with project staff responsible for projects.

work plan status, target dates, budget, resource capacity, and other reports as needed.

Adhere to contract requirements and comply with all corporate policies and procedures.

Integrated Planning and Scheduling

Own, maintain, and govern the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all project workstreams, vendors, and stakeholders.

Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) aligned with approved scope and deliverables.

Consolidate schedules from multiple teams, vendors, and project managers into a unified program schedule.

Identify and manage task, milestone, resource, and dependency relationships.

Perform critical path analysis and schedule impact assessments.

Project Controls and Performance Management

Monitor project performance against approved schedule, scope, and budget baselines.

Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, status reports, and project controls metrics.

Analyze trends and proactively identify risks to schedule performance.

Ensure project controls processes are consistently applied across all project workstreams.

Risk, Issue, Scope, and Change Management

Establish and maintain project control protocols for risk management, issue management, scope management, and change control.

Continuously evaluate project risks and coordinate mitigation planning.

Ensure scope changes are appropriately documented, justified, approved, and incorporated into project baselines.

Maintain issue logs, decision logs, risk registers, and change control documentation.

Resource and Dependency Management

Support resource planning, capacity analysis, forecasting, and workload balancing.

Perform resource allocation and leveling analysis.

Manage cross-project dependencies and escalation of dependency-related risks.

Coordinate project activities across multiple teams and vendors.

PMO Governance and Stakeholder Support

Serve as a key member of the PMO and support overall program governance activities.

Coordinate project governance meetings, milestone reviews, risk reviews, and executive steering committee meetings.

Ensure meeting materials, status reports, and supporting documentation are prepared and distributed.

Document meeting decisions, action items, risks, and follow-up activities.

Partner with business analysts, product owners, and project managers to ensure requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.

Support Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) planning and readiness activities from requirements through implementation.

Bachelor's degree in related field.

7-10 years of progressive experience in project controls, PMO, scheduling, program management, or project management for large-scale technology or modernization initiatives.

Minimum five (5) years of experience developing and managing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for complex programs.

Minimum five (5) years of experience using Microsoft Project or comparable enterprise scheduling tools.

Experience developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedule baselines, and dependency management frameworks.

Experience performing critical path analysis, schedule forecasting, and schedule recovery planning.

Experience managing project risks, issues, change requests, and scope controls.

Experience supporting Agile and/or Hybrid Agile, or Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

ITIL Foundation or similar certification.

Child support program experience a plus.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

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