{"id":933116,"url":"https://alion.io/job/blue-state-contract-project-manager-evergreen","title":"Contract Project Manager (Evergreen)","company":{"id":669022,"name":"Blue State","domain":"bluestate.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/bluestate-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":44,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0.929,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":60,"max":85,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":170000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Drupal","optional":false},{"name":"Slack","optional":false},{"name":"WordPress","optional":false},{"name":"PHP","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-02-13T21:20:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T22:00:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":230,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":229},"description":"Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities. Please note: this is an \"evergreen\" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren't ongoing, we're excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State's mission.\nIf you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to. What to know\nHelp run website development projects transforming the way people engage. As a Project Manager, you’ll spend your days leading our website development and technical consulting projects from start to finish, which will include managing clients, and collaborating with diverse teams of UXers, Designers, Strategists, and Developers. You’ll help turn progressive ideas into actionable tactics, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.\nThe company\nBlue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency in the US and London.\nA day in the life\nManage budgets and timelines for website redesign & platform focused projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimate across disciplines\nWork with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements\nManage client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams\nManage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health trackin\nLead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients\nManage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations\nMinimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client stakeholders to mitigate this risk\nManage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables\nEnsure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately\nWe approach in-office working with a hybrid model. On-site presence is welcome for US staff who are within commuting distance of the NY or DC office. Managers retain discretion to require in-person attendance for folks on their discipline or client teams as necessary, including for those whose roles require them to be in person. To enter our US offices or attend Blue State events, staff and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including with a booster shot when eligible. Exceptions for protected grounds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.\nThe salary range for this position is $60-$85 per hour; compensation will be commensurate with experience.\nThe team\nYou’ll be a part of our global Project Management team working on website development projects across offices. You will also work with a cross-disciplinary team of Designers, Developers, Strategists, and other creative folks to get the job done.\nSome things we're looking for\n2+ years of professional experience as a project manager with client-facing experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds\nStrong communication skills with the ability to interact with creative and tech team members, business stakeholders, clients, etc.\nExcellent written and oral communication skills, team-oriented mindset, meticulous attention to detail\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced (sometimes rapid-response) environment while maintaining a sense of perspective.\nAbility to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.\nYou are adaptable, curious, and always looking for ways to make things more efficient.\nYou have a passion for cause-based work and promoting progressive values.\nWhether it is Slack, Zoom, or email, you are a clear and responsive communicator. You approach communication with empathy and respect. \nYou manage your time well and are excited to dive into multiple projects at once.\nA shared passion and curiosity for making change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.\nEmpathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at Blue State and embody our working agreements.\nAt Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.\nBlue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at  with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.\nYour privacy is important to us. 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