Department Manager, Technical Intelligence & Integration Department

The MITRE Corporation • McLean, VA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The MITRE Intelligence Center is seeking a Department Manager (DM) for its Technical Intelligence & Integration Department located in McLean, VA. The department operates within MITRE’s Intelligence Center providing unique insights and solutions for the most challenging intelligence-related science and technology problems facing the Department of War. The Technical Intelligence & Integration Department’s focus is to fuse intelligence expertise together with data-driven, multi-disciplinary engineering techniques and analysis, focused on science and technology futures, intelligence aspects of the space domain and modeling and simulation. The successful candidate will have extensive experience managing an organization, a record of engagement at senior levels of the government, and the ability to operate and interact effectively in a large, complex, matrixed, and dynamic organizational context. They will have demonstrated outstanding and timely results in leading projects that have significant enterprise-wide impact, while building trusted relationships and exemplifying MITRE’s values and professionalism.

Requirements

• A minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 10 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more technical fields including: space systems analysis, counterspace capabilities, science and technology investment, modeling and simulation, cyber operations, strategic technical analysis and systems engineering.
• Deep knowledge of the Defense Intelligence Agency mission, organization, and operations.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of intelligence acquisition, collection, analysis or mission planning.
• Broad knowledge and familiarity with the US intelligence and national security communities.
• Experience with all aspects of management activities including work shaping, budgeting, reporting, and staff planning and selection.
• Experience in talent acquisition; identifying, recruiting, and onboarding new talent, and proven ability to develop a high performing team.
• Superior sponsor engagement and communications skills and experience in politically sensitive, executive-level customer contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to develop close working relationships with seniors in both the Intelligence Community and across the Department of Defense.
• Knowledge of MITRE’s value proposition, organizational structure, work programs, and Intelligence Center efforts.
• Experience meeting cost, schedule, performance, and quality for sponsor work.
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizations and integrate efforts to achieve more impactful outcomes.
• Active Top-Secret/SCI Clearance with polygraph.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree (MS/MA or PhD) in a related field.
• Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the technical capabilities of the staff, to include high quality hires capable of technical impact and growth.
• Excellent communication, writing, and editing skills, including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted adviser providing work program oversight, understanding sponsor priorities, and influencing work program direction and focus.
• Proven track record in making technical contributions, including work shaping to meet sponsor needs.
• Experience creating and leading technical strategies to increase the impact of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the division leadership team, working to implement division and department strategies and furthering sponsor outcomes.
• Proactively develop and enable a department workforce with the expertise and capabilities needed to execute solutions and meet mission.
• Develop, build, and nurture department staff. Identify and address potential gaps and build development plans for critical capability areas.
• Engage across MITRE to ensure delivery of the highest quality technical approaches and talent to the work program. Partner with and leverage the MITRE Labs and program divisions for needed technical talent and expertise.
• Staff projects within the department with the right talent. Assist project leaders in the selection and assignment of staff.
• Monitor execution of assigned projects and ensure delivery objectives are met. Ensure deliverables are accurate, focused, timely, and meet expectations.
• Develop and execute technical quality reviews to ensure the production of high technical quality products.
• Mentor, coach, and develop staff within the department to set and achieve career goals. Objectively evaluate individual contributions, provide feedback, reward, and recognize staff as appropriate.
• Manage technical quality and oversee all aspects of program management, to include regular coordination with MITRE executive leadership on risk topics, if appropriate.

Benefits

• competitive benefits
• exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth
• culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees