Help Desk Program Manager

Type of Requisition

Regular

Top Secret

Top Secret/SCI

None

Program Delivery and Execution

• Skills: ITIL Management, IT Program Management, IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 10 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship
  
  Required:
  
  Yes

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Help Desk Program Manager. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. This position demands a proven leader who can manage complex IT help desk operations, drive continuous process improvements, and deliver superior customer experience.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Help Desk Program Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Help Desk Program Manager joining our team to bring professionalism and initiative to a fast-paced environment that offers extensive options for training, certification, and career advancement. When we succeed, you succeed and together our best becomes better.

• Direct overall contractor support and manage day-to-day operations, ensuring high-quality ITSM service delivery.
• Ensure quality performance in alignment with ITIL standards and service delivery metrics.
• Lead quality assurance efforts and develop strategies to proactively mitigate project issues and risks.
• Interface continuously with key stakeholders, serving as the primary POC to the COR and senior government leadership to address strategy, operations, and planning.
• Drive continual service improvements by incorporating government and customer feedback and utilizing trend analysis to enhance the customer experience and optimize resource planning.
• Support knowledge and service catalog management, ensuring knowledge articles, templates, and scripted responses are up-to-date and aligned with contract and government requirements.
• Manage the performance, cost, and schedule of the project, providing financial management oversight for the Task Order and maintaining budget guidelines and schedules.
• Oversee staffing and resources across multiple geographically dispersed sites, ensuring appropriate coverage, timely onboarding and offboarding, and supervisory oversight.
• Formulate and review deliverable items, delivering accurate and timely reports, SOPs, and performance documentation to leadership.
• Administer training programs, ensuring new hires and experienced staff receive appropriate onboarding, refresher, and remedial training.
• Provide technical and career coaching and mentoring to the team.
• Utilize the JIRA ticketing system to capture operational data, track performance, and generate comprehensive reports.
• Deliver administrative and functional support for personnel activities such as time keeping, performance reviews, counseling, and hiring.
• Meet program milestones and deliverables by developing and maintaining comprehensive project plans and schedules.

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science; degree in IT related field is preferred
• Experience: 10+ years of prior Help Desk experience with a minimum of 5 years’ experience related to quality performance of ITSM services and supervising Help Desk employees; experience leading people and managing large cross-functional teams; experience developing strategies to mitigate issues and risks
• Professional
  
  Skills:
  
  Highly self‑motivated leader with exceptional communication skills, capable of driving results under minimal supervision and interacting professionally across all organizational levels.
• Security Clearance Level: Active Top Secret with eligibility for SCI
• Certifications:
  • Required
    : ITIL v3 or ITIL v4 Certification and Security+
  • Preferred
    : PMP, CISSP, CASP/Security X
• Location: Downtown DC; 100% onsite

The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. 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…