# Contracts Director

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000 - $230,000
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Drive Mission Impact. Shape Strategic Direction. Lead with Purpose.

Are you ready to guide the strategic direction of a business that supports some of the nation’s most critical intelligence missions? As a **Contracts Director** at GDIT, you will be at the center of mission success, empowering government partners, enabling operational excellence, and accelerating your own career growth in Contract Management.

**Make a Difference That Matters**

In this role, you will lead a high‑performing team of contract professionals within the **Space and Cyber Intelligence (SCI) Sector** of our **Intelligence and Homeland Security (IHS) Division**. Your expertise will directly support the intelligence community’s most important initiatives, ensuring every contract strengthens mission outcomes and aligns with strategic organizational goals.

**What You’ll Lead and Deliver**

- Provide executive oversight of the full contracts administration function for the SCI Sector, empowering, mentoring, and developing a team of contracts professionals

- Accelerate business growth through strategic customer engagement, opportunity shaping, proposal leadership, and the execution of complex contract negotiations

- Protect mission and business interests by driving rigorous due diligence across all contractual documents and maintaining a disciplined change‑control process to ensure legal and regulatory compliance

- Serve as a trusted strategic partner to internal stakeholders and cross‑functional leaders, offering expert guidance, resolving contract challenges, and strengthening decision-making

- Champion internal compliance by aligning contract performance, processes, and outcomes with management objectives, federal regulations, and agency-specific requirements

**Required Qualifications:**

- Education: Bachelor’s degree

- Experience: 10+ years of Contracts Administration and Leadership experience

- Technical skills:

+ Advanced Knowledge of various contract types, relevant laws, regulations, terms, conditions, and policies governing assigned contracts including the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Intel agency acquisition manuals 	+ Expert in complex terms and conditions negotiations 	+ Experience with CSOs/OTAs/CRADAs preferred 	+ Strong ability to mentor, develop talent, and lead team training initiatives

- Security Clearance: Must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph

- Location: This is a hybrid position. Must be comfortable working in both of our offices in Annapolis Junction, MD and Herndon, VA as business necessitates. Must be comfortable working onsite a minimum of (3) days a week and traveling to meetings as needed.

- US citizenship required

**Benefits:**

- 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

The likely salary range for this position is $170,000 - $230,000. 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Contract Administration
- Contract Negotiations
- Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- CSOs/OTAs/CRADAs

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