Transition Lead (ITC# 2447)

As the Transition Lead at GDIT you will take lead on transitioning new services across TSS.  You will be responsible for developing project schedules, identifying Risks and Issues, tracking actions and question and facilitating meetings to discuss and track the status of transitions.  This role will allow you to utilize your time management and organizational skills to ensure projects are completed timely and within budget. If you enjoy collaborating with a dynamic team to ensure the successful completion of client and operational goals, you will find this role to be both rewarding and challenging.
 

Essential Job Duties:

• Develop Project Schedules with delivery teams in SmartSheets & MS Project
• Develop and maintain a project schedule using Smartsheets/MS Project of timeline of events for launching a new contract or onboarding new services.
• Communicate project status updates to GDIT leadership to include identified risks and mitigations. 
• Maintain the Risk, Action, Issue and Deliverable (RAID) for all project implementations.
• Work with Delivery Teams to identify and track mitigations for identified risk. 
• Develop documents for presentation of project status during the transition period.
• Communicates regularly with client on transition status and timeline. 
• Communicates mitigation associated with cost to the program management team for approval.
• Responsible for establishing, facilitating and documenting meetings where transition tasks are identified/discussed/gathered.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to perform root cause analysis and apply critical thinking skills to complex problems
• Ability to drive toward goal completion when given ambiguous constraints
• Ability to define pathways and lead teams through to goal completion
• Ability to pay close attention to detail and present information that is thorough and accurate

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Five or more years of related experience
• One or more years of experience with MS Project, Excel & Smartsheets
• One or more years of experience with communicating with a diverse audience of collaborators and team members

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.