Program Director

Program Director

Oversee complex programs that drive impactful mission outcomes for our customers as a Program Director. Here, you’ll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your program management career can go at GDIT. The Program Director serves as the primary point of contact for the Sponsor's Contract Officer Technical Representative (COTR), Praxis/GDIT contract management, financial support personnel, security, management, and others in regard to program needs and coordination. The Program Director manages the daily operations of the program with ultimate responsibility for satisfying all contractual requirements, reporting on progress, managing team personnel, managing risks, and staying within allocated budgets.

Job Qualifications

• Security clearance level: Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph required
• US citizenship required
• Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience managing small to mid-size programs
• Working knowledge of the Sponsor's IT requirements, processes, and user environment
• Experience controlling resources and funds using priority-based tasking to meet obligations in a resource-constrained environment
• Education: Degree in an Information Technology or Engineering discipline

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Bring your program management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Program Director must have:

• Security clearance level: Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph required
• US citizenship required
• Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience managing small to mid-size programs
• Working knowledge of the Sponsor's IT requirements, processes, and user environment
• Experience controlling resources and funds using priority-based tasking to meet obligations in a resource-constrained environment
• Education: Degree in an Information Technology or Engineering discipline

Job Description

Ensure the program is appropriately staffed with qualified personnel.

Ensure the preparation and delivery of all reports in a timely manner according to defined schedules.

Ensure personnel are up to date with customer and GDIT training requirements, program needs, and anticipate future training needs.

Manage resources and costs.

Prepare necessary documents for clearance and security requirements and reports.

Detect and manage performance issues and concerns quickly.

Respond to customer requirements and Requests For Information.

Prepare agendas, metrics, progress reports, risks, issues, and other information needed for biweekly meetings with the program's user group.

Prepare agendas, issues, and other information needed for biweekly meetings with the Sponsor's High-Performance Computing technical team.

Maintain appropriate documentation in the program information database within Confluence.

Support biweekly Sprint planning and retrospective meetings as well as monitor Jira tickets and schedules.

Update, as needed, the Risk Register, Program Management Plan, and other documents.

Monitor Quality Assurance and address issues.

Support A&A activities and actions.

Conduct weekly audit reviews of logs and dashboards.

Bi-weekly POV travel between contractor site near Dulles Airport and Sponsor's headquarters also in Northern Virginia.

Work closely with each team member, including the Technical Lead, as well as users, the COTR, ISSM, and others.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Desired Requirements

Experience with using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud-based technologies.

Experience working within a SCRUM-based development environment.

Experience supporting software development teams.

Experience supporting Operations & Maintenance teams for hybrid systems (cloud-based and physical systems).

Additional Information

The likely salary range for this position is $216,750 - $293,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Herndon

Total Rewards: At GDIT Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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