Job Details

Senior Broadband Project Manager

Salary: $93,000.00 - $118,000.00 Annually

Location: Statewide, CO

Job Type: Full Time

Job Number: EGB93147

Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology

Opening Date: 11/25/2025

Closing Date: 12/11/202511:59 PM Mountain

FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.

Contact Information: ...@state.co.us

This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system.

Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

To apply, please submit an online application at

Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application.

Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve.

But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration.

Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.

This position is term limited with an anticipated end date of approximately two years from the date of hire.

This position is eligible for State employee benefits and may be extended as the situation warrants.

As a part of the Colorado Broadband Office, you will manage various program tasks and functions involved in the design, implementation, and management of extensive carrier-grade transport networks.

You will have oversight of regional broadband network construction including, but not limited to the review of legal documents and service agreements, construction management, installation of carrier neutral locations, and testing.

You will be familiar with network development, experienced with vendors, physical network infrastructure, optical technologies and backbone network engineering.

This role requires collaboration, driving strategic and tactical initiatives, creating and managing delivery programs and creating detailed reporting for consumption by our internal customers.

Some of the day to day opportunities include:

• Overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance plans of fiber-optic transport systems.
• Reviewing and designing requests for new requirements on behalf of local governments, tribal nations, and other state agencies in respect to the use of the Capital Project Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program funds, in addition to any future federal funding allocated to the state for deployment.
• Supporting CBO's Middle Mile Initiative which includes informing strategy, grant making, and working with stakeholders on the technical components related to middle mile infrastructure.
• Supporting the planning and tracking of multiple stakeholder Broadband projects, ensuring timely resolution of issues, using escalation as necessary, creation of ongoing status reports using CRM software.
• Supporting the collection and preparation of reports as needed for grant funding partners, in addition to developing reports from major CRM platforms.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks, and devise contingency plans and support the contracting process for broadband grants.
• Supporting stakeholders in proactively managing broadband initiatives, including overall project plan, scope, change control, risks, issues, impacts, and reporting through standardization and best practice project implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of five (5) years experience in IT project management for large, complex telecommunications or Broadband projects and/or comparable project management, which demonstrates strong relationship building and management skills, collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience must also include: Using a variety of project management tools and methodologies. Business processes and mapping of business functions to services. Defining and executing large, complex technology programs. Solid understanding of change management and ability to lead and influence cross functional teams and stakeholders. Subject matter expert in the program management discipline, including scope, budget, schedule and resource management. Excellent verbal, written, presentation and facilitation skills and a proven track record communicating at all levels within IT and the business.

Substitutions: Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in large scale and complex Broadband infrastructure projects.
• Prior professional experience working for a Federal, State, or Municipal government organization.
• Relevant IT certifications (e.g., PMP, Scrum, ITIL, ADKAR, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Agile and Scrum methodology experience.

Conditions of Employment:

• OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.
• A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
• Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.
• This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

If this posting indicates "remote from anywhere in CO" in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required.

All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position.

A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.

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The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.