Project Manager

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Project Manager (PM), supporting the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA), serving as the single point-of-contact (POC).

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.  At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a PM you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on the PM to be be responsible for the overall management, control, coordination, and execution of assigned projects. The PM will also, provide technical advice on engineering unique systems, applications, and functions.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Plan, initiate, and manage information technology projects
• Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage
• Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards and cost targets are met
• Apply expertise on multiple complex work assignments, which may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation to accomplish
• Provide status updates to clients, senior leadership, and other stakeholders
• Collect and analyze data, and other information, to provide recommendations to stakeholders
• Ensures all task areas meet cost, schedule, quality, and performance requirements
• Responsible for identifying and analyzing significant deviations from plan, take corrective actions, and forecasts any impact on contract deliverables
• Responsible for all communications regarding current and future requirements, performance, and ultimate programmatic success or failure.
• Lead and guide the work of technical staff
• Serve as a liaison between business and technical aspects of information technology projects
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders across various workgroups and departments within DHA
• The PM ensures program integration across task areas, work groups, and functional/technical teams and delegates administrative, financial, and coordination duties as necessary
• Ensures use of innovative processes to plan, organize, and control all project related activities, manage risks and to monitor performance
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
• Other duties and tasks as assigned

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, or training, or work experience
• Required Experience: 6 + years experience managing projects
• Required Technical Skills: ITIL 4 Foundation Certification required; Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred or has the ability to obtain within 6 months of hire; Solid ITIL understanding/experience managing multiple projects; Experience with controlling costs and resources for large scale, complex projects; Proven experience supervising large IT services contracts and people of various skills and disciplines
• Security Clearance Level: Ability to obtain a secret clearance; Active NACLC(T3) or higher is preferred
• Required Skills and Abilities: Ability to lead and facilitate relations across internal and external stakeholders
• Preferred Skills: Knowledge and experience with DoD and MHS Governance construct and procedures; Technical and financial background
• US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE: 

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

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