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The MITRE Intelligence Center is seeking a Managing Director (MD) for its Cryptologic and Cyber Operations Division, N910, located at MITRE’s Fort Meade campus. The Managing Director reports to MITRE’s VP, Intelligence Center and serves as a member of the Intelligence Center senior leadership team.

The N910 MD is accountable for the leadership of the division and the planning and implementation of MITRE’s work program in support of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command. The N910 MD is responsible for the development and execution of the Division strategy, and the delivery and execution of the NSA and USCYBERCOM work program by aligning the workforce and technical capabilities to deliver mission value.

The N910 MD must be familiar with the missions, organizations and technical areas of key importance to the NSA and USCYBERCOM. These include cybersecurity; joint cyber operations; collection, exploitation, and analysis of signals intelligence; multi-domain operations; modeling and simulation; computer and analytic sciences; reverse engineering; and automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. 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. As a technical thought leader, the N910 MD is expected to apply their areas of expertise and contribute to sponsor projects and corporate strategic initiatives.

The primary responsibilities of the position must be carried out in person in Fort Meade, Maryland. Applicants not based in the Fort Meade area are still required to fully carry out all the responsibilities of the role, including in-person engagement and availability with the workforce and sponsors. This means establishing a regular presence at Fort Meade multiple days each week and availability to travel to Fort Meade on very short notice. This may entail frequent, flexible, and/or extended travel as mission and organizational needs dictate.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Management

• Leading all aspects of the Cryptologic and Cyber Operations division.

• Serving as a partner to the sponsors through thought leadership in critical mission areas.

• Demonstrating thought leadership.

• Managing a large division with multiple sponsors and customer organizations.

• Strategic Planning

• Identifying and anticipating major sponsor and environmental trends, opportunities, and issues; continually shaping the plan and strategy accordingly to achieve mission impact, critical outcomes, and enable good growth through our work program.

• Leading executive-level engagements with sponsors and stakeholders to build trusted relationships across the Intelligence Community.

• Shaping work to deliver mission impact and achieve sponsor mission and outcomes.

• Integration

• Collaborating and partnering with senior MITRE leadership in other divisions and innovation centers to plan and align growth strategies in delivering sponsor solutions.

• Building relationships, networks, and potentially new organizational constructs across MITRE driving cross-sponsor approaches to increase the value of the FFRDC Platform.

• Developing and deploying cross-agency solutions to solve national security challenges.

• Technical Oversight

• Leading, planning, and executing the work program to ensure mission impact and technical quality while bringing forward consistency, innovation, and best practices.

• Overseeing technical and strategic quality of division project plans, capabilities, and deliverables.

• Staff development and workforce shaping

• Shaping a high-caliber team to deliver high-value, high-impact work, ensuring that staffing levels are maintained for critical skills and that the right people are placed in the right jobs.

• Recruitment and retention of a highly skilled technical workforce

• Business and Financial Acumen

• Estimating, informing, and meeting targets for revenue and delivery to MITRE sponsors

• Setting and managing overhead and indirect budgets for division operations

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires 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.

• Deep working knowledge of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command

• Broad knowledge and familiarity with the US intelligence and national security community.

• Experience meeting cost, schedule, performance, and quality for sponsor work.

• Experience executing large complex endeavors from strategic, operational, and financial perspectives.

• Successful record of engagement, relationship-building, and collaboration in a complex national security environment

• Proven leadership skills managing and motivating employees and creating an inclusive environment.

• Proven ability to recruit and develop a top-quality team with a commitment to enhancing Inclusion and Diversity

• Significant exposure to and experience solving mission-oriented challenges of our sponsors.

• Excellent communication skills with all levels of sponsors and internal staff

• Strong understanding of how the national security enterprise works

• Demonstrated ability to work across organizations and integrate efforts to achieve more impactful outcomes.

• Active Top-Secret SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an NSA Poly.

• Polygraph within the last seven (7) years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced graduate degree in the national security, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, mathematics, or comparable related fields.

• Demonstrated leadership of projects that provide innovative solutions leading to game-changing capabilities.

• TS/SCI with current Polygraph

• High desired current or recent NSA clearances .

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

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

Top Secret/SCI

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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