Project / Task Senior Manager

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Deliverables Management, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, Project Schedule

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Position Summary:
The Senior Project / Task Manager is responsible for providing technical, administrative, and operational leadership for assigned projects or task orders. This role manages tasks execution, oversees multidisciplinary teams, ensures quality deliverables, and serves as a primary liaison with customers, vendors, and internal stakeholders. The manager is accountable for successful project planning, execution, risk management, and alignment with organizational goals.  This position will report to the Technical Delivery Manager’s Team. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical, administrative, and operational management across assigned task orders.

• Facilitates direct technical collaboration with multiple commercial vendors ensuring alignment with best practices

• Oversee day‑to‑day execution of all assigned task orders, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedule

• Build detailed project schedules in Microsoft Project, including dependencies, milestones, and critical path analysis.

• Draft weekly and monthly status reports summarizing progress, risks, decisions, and next steps.

• Facilitate internal planning sessions to clarify priorities across competing tasks.

• Provide resource forecasts to leadership, including staffing gaps or skills required.

• Develop and maintain a project risk register with probability, impact, and mitigation strategies.

• Lead risk review meetings with stakeholders to evaluate emerging or evolving threats to project delivery.

• Produce risk reports and escalate critical issues to leadership as required.

• Ensures quality assurance of project deliverables.

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.

• Participates in special projects as required.

• Participate in the development of technical project plans, reports, schedules, and administrative documentation.

• Perform high-level technical support or subject-matter advisory work as required.

• Conduct project planning and provide recommendations to clients regarding resource allocation and task prioritization.

• Manage project risks, including identification, tracking, mitigation planning, and reporting.

• Attend customer meetings and serve as a primary client liaison for assigned efforts.

• Coordinate with vendors, partner agencies, and internal/external stakeholders.

• Direct the development, tracking, and delivery of contractual deliverables and project products.

• Ensure quality assurance standards are applied to all project deliverables.

• Maintain awareness of relevant technologies, tools, and best practices aligned with project needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• 5+ years of project, program, or task management experience.

• Demonstrated ability to manage teams across multiple disciplines.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong customer service skills with a proven ability to anticipate and mitigate customer challenges.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project).

• Experience with business operations and project execution strategies.

• Strong administrative, organizational, and analytical skills.

• Effective people management and leadership skills.

• Understanding of company processes, procedures, and policies.

• Ability to align project activities with organizational strategic goals.

• Secret Security Clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile/Scrum, or domain-specific certs) depending on assignment.

• Experience leading efforts in matrixed or highly technical environments.

• Demonstrated experience working directly with government customers and/or multi-agency partners.

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, competitive pay and paid time off

• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $112,840 - $141,450. 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:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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 consulting, technology 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 capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

gdit.com/tc.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans