A&A Project Manager

Public Trust: MBI (T2)

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Assessment & Authorization ( A&A) Project Manager supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As an A&A Project Manager , you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an A&A Project Manager joining our team to analyze design, develop, implement, and support code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

HOW AN A&A PROJECT MANAGER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Managing the entire lifecycle of the A&A process, often aligned with frameworks like the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Developing and Maintaining Security Documentation to include creating and updating essential documents such as System Security Plans (SSPs), Security Assessment Reports (SARs), and Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms).
• Conducting Security Assessments and participate in security assessments, which involve evaluating security controls, identifying vulnerabilities, and assessing potential risks to information systems.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required.
• NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Experience :

• 3+ years' experience Managing the entire lifecycle of the A&A process
• Experience in and proven ability to manage multiple projects from beginning to successful completion, including defining project scope and objectives, creating project plans/schedules, establishing and tracking metrics, and engaging with and guiding stakeholders at all management and leadership levels.
• Strong organizational skills sufficient to plan, coordinate, track and manage several ongoing and complex efforts, including: retirements and remnant clean-up of applications across the organization; revisions of outdated compliance reviews for hundreds of information resources; ongoing updates to vital documents.
• Experience with and understanding of process to retire applications/systems across large organizations, including verification of remnant removal, to minimize security risks to the organization, and ability to advise application stakeholders through the process.
• Knowledge of or experience with the SDLC Retirement/Decommission process.
• Strong written and oral communications skills, including ability to create project-related and training documentation, and ability to prepare presentations and brief executives, managers, and peers.
• Experience in information security and understanding of the information resource accreditation process.
• Knowledge and understanding of cybersecurity policies and processes sufficient to review, understand and provide inputs to internal security policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and training documents.
• Ability to create SharePoint sites, including Team sites, and demonstrated experience in customizing and managing content on SharePoint sites, including documents, lists, and libraries.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or similar credentials are preferred but not required.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to build & maintain schedules and step-by-step action plans.

Security Clearance Level :

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location :

• Morrisville, NC
• Falls Church, VA
• Eagan, MN
• Remote considered

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.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

3 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%