Senior Program Manager

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cost Management, Deliverables Management, People Management
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Senior Program Manager to support our NASA Business Area in driving the successful pursuit and execution of key initiatives across our growing NASA portfolio.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Senior Program Manager will provide significant contributions to a comprehensive solution that will integrate and manage a 24x7 Service Desk, advanced AI enabled tools, efficient on-site deskside support, PC as a Service hardware model, and complementary engineering, cybersecurity, and IT Service Management (ITSM) development resources.

As a Program Manager supporting this opportunity, you will support our internal customer and team, offering thought leadership, reasonable counsel, and operational discipline. In this position, you will also support GDIT's account management for NASA with a specific focus on business growth, customer relationship management, and service delivery. This position will provide expertise in ensuring the solutions and execution are strategic in future enterprise IT service delivery, as well as applying best industry best practices in planning, implementation, and innovation.

The successful candidate will be an experienced Senior Program Manager with prior support to NASA combined with a long track record of successfully managing projects with similar operations scope. The candidate must demonstrate success in effective supervision of personnel, positive customer relationships, and excellence in service delivery driving innovation and customer experience. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are essential in this role that requires the ability to successfully juggle priorities in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent work streams.


In this Program Manager role, you will be responsible for executing GDIT's strategic initiatives and ensuring compliance with Federal, and NASA requirements. This position requires a highly motivated and experienced leader who can navigate complex challenges, execute tasks with precision, and foster trust-based relationships with both internal and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

• Build and nurture trust with customers by delivering consistent, high-quality results and maintaining open communication.
• Set realistic expectations and establish transparent lines of communication with all stakeholders.
• Act as a key point of contact for both internal teams and the customer, ensuring alignment on all project goals and deliverables.

Strategic Leadership

• Execute GDIT's strategic imperatives, focusing on NASA standards and the NASA Community.
• Demonstrate a Consultant Mindset by identifying challenges, implementing actionable solutions, and fostering continuous improvements.
• Enhance customer experience by engaging with users and delivering value-driven results that align with customer expectations.

Project and Task Management

• Develop, maintain, and oversee comprehensive project schedules to ensure timely project delivery.
• Allocate tasks effectively to development and operations team members to align with project and contract requirements.
• Proactively identify and address potential roadblocks, adjusting program plans as necessary.

Performance and Quality Oversight

• Ensure that all project deliverables meet the required quality standards and comply with regulatory guidelines.
• Track and report on program metrics, providing data-driven insights to improve program performance.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree and minimal five (5) combined years of program management experience.
• Extensive experience with the NASA environment, customers and building appropriate solutions for this customer.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to various stakeholders, management levels, and non-technical audiences, and to independently lead various meetings and technical calls.
• Must have proven experience successfully managing customer relationships.
• Must have experience leading and managing remote teams, including mentoring and providing performance management.
• Experience creating schedules and timelines, tracking deliverables and metrics, and providing demonstrations and virtual training.
• Experience with implementation of performance excellence in adapting new technologies, decision making and exceeding expectations.
• Candidate must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in program management at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results.

The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $164,450. 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:
10-25%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA CA Los Angeles

Additional Work Locations:

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.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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