Senior Chief of Staff

Modern Technology Solutions Inc•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Join a mission-focused program supporting critical Department of Defense (DoD) activities by leveraging your exceptional organizational and administrative skills as an Senior Chief of Staff. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert who helps executive leadership convert priorities into coordinated action, clear decisions, and measurable outcomes. The role operates as a strategic integrator across functions, programs, and stakeholders by managing executive priorities, synthesizing complex information, preparing decision-ready materials, tracking high-visibility actions, and ensuring leadership has the information needed to act with speed and accuracy.

Requirements

Experience supporting senior leaders, executive offices, program offices, command staff, or equivalent leadership teams.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high visibility taskings with competing deadlines.
Strong written communication skills, including experience developing executive-level briefings, summaries, staff packages, and decision materials.
Ability to synthesize complex information into clear findings, risks, options, and recommendations.
Working knowledge of staff coordination, governance processes, executive communications, and cross-functional action tracking.
Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, national security, management, engineering, communications, policy, or a related field.
10 or more years of experience in executive staff support, program management, operations, strategy, defense, government, aerospace, technology, or another complex mission-driven environment.
Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks with tight deadlines.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for internal and external interactions.
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and adapt to dynamic priorities.
Active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility.
U.S. citizenship, when required for access to classified U.S. government information.

Nice To Haves

Master’s preferred

Responsibilities

Translate senior leader intent into clear actions, timelines, owners, and expected outcomes.
Establish and maintain an executive operating rhythm, including staff meetings, decision forums, task reviews, and leadership engagement preparation.
Track high-priority actions from assignment through closure, ensuring responses are accurate, timely, and aligned with leadership direction.
Identify stalled actions, unclear ownership, or decision bottlenecks and recommend corrective action.
Gather, assess, and synthesize input from multiple stakeholders to support executive decisions.
Prepare executive-level briefings, read-ahead materials, information papers, decision packages, talking points, and meeting summaries.
Identify risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and second-order effects before issues reach senior decision forums.
Provide leadership with actionable recommendations rather than unfiltered information.
Coordinate across programs, functional teams, technical experts, operations, finance, contracts, security, and customer-facing stakeholders as required.
Ensure teams understand leadership priorities, deadlines, decision criteria, and required deliverables.
Resolve alignment issues by clarifying intent, connecting the right stakeholders, and elevating unresolved concerns.
Support cross-functional initiatives that require senior-level visibility, disciplined follow-through, and consistent communication.
Develop clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications for senior leaders.
Convert complex technical, operational, acquisition, policy, or program information into concise executive products.
Maintain consistency between leadership messaging, organizational priorities, and external stakeholder engagement.
Prepare leadership for internal reviews, customer meetings, conferences, governance forums, and senior-level engagements.
Maintain visibility of leadership taskers, suspense items, commitments, meeting outcomes, and decision records.
Recommend improvements to staff processes, battle rhythm, information flow, and leadership engagement preparation.
Ensure executive products meet quality, accuracy, formatting, classification, and coordination standards before submission.
Support governance forums by preparing agendas, capturing decisions, assigning follow-up actions, and monitoring completion.
Monitor emerging risks that may affect executive priorities, organizational performance, stakeholder confidence, or mission execution.
Distinguish between issues that can be resolved at the working level and issues requiring executive intervention.
Provide concise escalation summaries that include context, impact, options, and recommended next steps.