Deputy Program Manager

About this role

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Interim 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, Financial Management, Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), Planning, Team Management Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description: Deputy Program Manager Opportunity to join a mission‑critical Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program delivering cyber exercise planning, execution, analysis, and operational support. In this role, you will help design realistic cyber scenarios, evaluate stakeholder preparedness, and produce insights that inform the DHS national cybersecurity mission. Your expertise will directly contribute to improving response capability, enhancing resilience, and supporting DHS's strategic initiatives across the nation.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As part of the program team, you will: • Support the full lifecycle of cybersecurity exercise development, from concept design to post‑exercise analysis. • Develop injects, scenarios, and materials for tabletop, functional, and full‑scale cyber exercises. • Coordinate with CISA, federal agencies, SLTT governments, and critical infrastructure partners to align exercise content with real‑world threats. • Facilitate exercise execution, including briefings, data collection, and operational support. • Assess performance, analyze results, and develop after‑action reports and improvement plans. • Provide recommendations to enhance cyber preparedness, response coordination, and operational playbooks. • Translate mission needs into functional, repeatable exercise constructs. • Support governance, documentation, reporting, and quality assurance for exercise products and delivery. • Performs personnel actions including hiring and performance evaluation. • Directs program activities to meet client and organization work objectives and serves as a liaison with clients to coordinate activities, negotiate tasks, and solve problems. • Assures quality of program products, services, and deliverables, including participating in reviews, audits, and site visits. • Develops, reviews, and approves exercise support plans, schedules, and other program documents. • Prepares and provides various reports and technical reviews to senior management as requested. • Responsible for organizing, directing, and managing aspects of contract operational support functions involving multiple complex and inter-related project tasks that often require managing teams of personnel.   • Consult with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverables, ensuring conformance with program and project task schedules and costs and contractual obligations.  • Establish and maintain technical reports to show progress of assigned projects to management and customers. • Organize and assign responsibilities to subordinates and oversee the successful completion of assigned tasks • Participates in special projects as required.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED • Experience working with or knowledge of DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Exercises sub-division and the National Cyber Exercise Program. • Experience in developing and executing cyber exercises utilizing HSEEP. • Expert written and verbal communication skills with customer service focus. • Strong and demonstratable leadership abilities. • Problem Solver. • Experience in a rapidly paced, time sensitive, high-quality environment. • Proven ability to multi-task, prioritize commitments, and manage time effectively including attention to detail. • Expertise using Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. • Ability to respond to urgent and sensitive requests for information in a timely manner. • Flexible, self-motivated, and able to adapt to changing circumstances. • Time management and organizational skills.

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE • BS/BA Degree • 5+ years of relevant experience • Clearance: TS/SCI required.

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for securing the mission.

The likely salary range for this position is $131,750 - $178,250. 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 outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: 10-25%

T elecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA VA Arlington

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 en

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