Cleared MNS Cross-Cutting Capabilities Operations, Principal

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MITRE National Security Sector (MNS) and the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC is placing significant emphasis and focus into solving challenging problems that cut across all Departments and Agencies, Industry, and International Partners. As a systems engineering and integration FFRDC, NSEC fulfills the important role of assisting the DoD in solving its most challenging problems that require integration across the Services, other DoD agencies, the Intelligence Community, and the Interagency. Boundaries across these different organizations limit the DoD’s ability to discover how integration and collaboration could enable cross-cutting solutions and to identify and develop these solutions. The breadth of its connectivity, spanning warfighters and other operators, technology developers, acquisition offices, and the intelligence agencies, puts the NSEC in a unique position to help address this gap. This is an important way in which the NSEC proactively assesses capability gaps and needs by mission rather than by system or Military Service and focus on outcome rather than process.

The N500 Cross-Cutting Capabilities team oversees the NSEC Cross-Cutting Priorities, MNS-International, MNS Chief Engineers, and facilitates coordination for the NSEC Mission-Oriented Experimentation and Innovation (MOIE) funds portion of the MITRE Independent Research and Development (IRAD) program, representing the MNS Sector-level challenges and funding priorities. We are currently seeking a Cleared MNS Cross-Cutting Operations Principal to join the Cross-Cutting Operations organization to serve in a dynamic, fast-moving role. Candidates should possess a breadth of technical skills, domain knowledge, operations, and project-management experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Working across MNS, MNS-I, MNS Cross-Cutting Priorities, MNS Chief Engineers, and MITRE Independent Research and Development (IR&D) to ensure strategic implementation of priorities and efficient, effective business operations. Passionate about being a ‘connector’ across a large, agile team focused on incorporating collaborative best practices.

Managing and monitoring the resourcing across select XCP and MNS IR&D resources to ensure that financials are on track and staff personnel have appropriate project coverage.

Leading and managing select MNS strategic initiatives assigned to N500 as needed to implement components of the MNS strategy.

Facilitating and managing team communication channels, websites, and tools.

Continuously assessing and improving processes as needed and coordinate across the broader MITRE operations and program management community.

Setting-up and maintaining project files, schedules and records, including establishing resources/documentation necessary for organizational transparency and standardization.

Integration and use of dashboards to provide up to date information on the status of the NSEC MOIE program and ensuring additional funding requirements of the NSEC MOIE program are met.

Coordination of operations for the NSEC MOIE program with the MITRE IR&D team, including operations, research program leaders, and the Office of the CTO.

Develop and maintain strong internal relationships across a matrixed team of leaders, partners, administrative staff, technical staff, and sponsor project teams.

Lead Multiple Independent Project Teams that will change based upon organizational need.

Facilitation and coordination of MNS, XCP, Sector-level Challenge IR&D, and international senior engagements as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

Active Top Secret clearance.

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

Strong problem-solving skills and capable of working with scientists, analysts, and technical software developers across several technical disciplines.

Requires high level of poise, initiative, tact, professionalism, and diplomacy in working closely, often under time constraints, with highly confidential information, with a diverse group of directors, staff, and MITRE operations supporting components.

Exceptional Microsoft Office Suite skills include Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Microsoft Project, Wrike. Working knowledge of Sales Force software for business applications.

Demonstrated ability to effectively apply strong self-organization and time management skills, with considerable emphasis on self-initiation, independent decision making, accuracy and follow through on a broad range of administrative support tasks.

Demonstrated ability to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures.

Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to operate and team with MITRE management, staff and clients are a must.

A strong teamwork ethos, maturity, initiative, and dependability. Works effectively and tactfully with colleagues at every level of the organization.

Demonstrated experience as a ‘connector’ across a large, agile team focused on incorporating collaborative best practices.

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree and at least 10 years of experience in operations, project/program management, or national security related studies.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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