Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Business Development
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
New Market Expansion, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Direction, Strategic Growth
Certifications:
None
Experience:
9 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
The Strategic Advisor is a senior partner to the business area leadership team, responsible for shaping strategic direction, enabling growth, strengthening operational excellence, and ensuring cohesive execution across the portfolio. This role provides forward-looking insight, strategic counsel, and enterprise awareness to help the business area anticipate mission needs, align capabilities, and position teams for long-term success.
The Advisor serves as the connective tissue across strategy, growth, delivery, and modernization - enabling the business area to operate with clarity, alignment, and agility in a fast-evolving mission landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Advisory to the Business Area
• Partner directly with business area leaders to develop, refine, and operationalize strategic priorities and multi-year plans.
• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on mission trends, customer direction, market dynamics, and enterprise initiatives.
• Bring structured thinking to ambiguous challenges, providing leadership with clear recommendations and strategic options.
• Support alignment to enterprise strategy frameworks such as VIA - Vision, Innovation, Acceleration - ensuring the business area is positioned for future growth.
Growth & Business Area Expansion
• Identify new growth pathways across the business area by analyzing mission demand signals, technology trends, and customer needs.
• Strengthen customer intimacy through strategic engagement planning, understanding key drivers, and supporting senior-level relationship strategies.
• Partner with Growth and BD teams to ensure strategic pursuits reflect business area priorities, mission alignment, and capability strengths - without serving as a capture lead.
• Surface opportunities for organic growth (new scope, modernization expansions, capability repositioning) within existing programs and accounts.
Operational Excellence Enablement
• Provide advisory support on improving delivery governance, risk awareness, performance management, and cross-program alignment across the business area.
• Promote consistent operational frameworks, customer engagement discipline, and high-quality execution aligned with GDIT's Program Delivery standards.
• Support leaders in solving operational challenges by connecting insights across programs, functions, and technical domains.
• Champion value-creating behaviors such as customer intimacy, mission alignment, delivery excellence, and innovation.
Enterprise Alignment & Strategic Integration
• Connect business area priorities to enterprise initiatives, Centers of Excellence (COEs), growth campaigns, digital accelerators, and technology investments.
• Serve as the integrator across the business area, ensuring strategy, growth, and delivery teams operate with shared awareness and coordinated execution.
• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable guidance for the business area and ensure alignment to mission campaigns and strategic growth vectors.
Leadership Insight & Communication
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready insights, strategy briefs, and recommendations for business area leaders.
• Facilitate leadership discussions by providing context, decision-support analysis, and synthesis of complex information.
• Represent the business area in enterprise strategy forums, mission campaign discussions, and cross-division coordination sessions.
Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in strategy, operational leadership and complex program environments.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders, operate in ambiguity, and influence across organizational boundaries.
• Strong understanding of federal mission environments and enterprise strategy constructs.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and strategic analysis skills.
• US citizenship
• Able to hold TS/Q level clearance
The likely salary range for this position is $225,250 - $304,750. 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:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA VA Falls Church
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 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.
