Department Manager, Naval Integration & Operations

Operations & Integration Department Manager

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MITRE National Security Sector (MNS) and the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC places significant emphasis and focus on 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 between 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 Naval Division (N230) is seeking an experienced and bold leader to be the Operations & Integration Department Manager. This new department is chartered to integrate game changing, asymmetric, or strategic capability into naval operations in order to ensure maritime superiority and all domain Fleet lethality in a dynamic, complex, and contested maritime environment. The position will be responsible for managing a multi-domain, multi-disciplinary team across operational components, acquisition, and capability development providers as well as with international partners.

The selected candidate will:

• Be responsible for strategically shaping the operational work program across joint staff, naval and other service component and combatant commands; and strategically shaping the integration of capabilities both within current acquisition pipelines and alternative acquisition approaches to meet speed-to-need.
• Set the technical direction for Counter-C5ISRT operational and emerging capabilities and build a deeper bench of technical and domain expertise in this area.
• Ensure the core work programs in C2 in Contested Environments and Mission Engineering creates viable, coherent, and orchestrated capability integration into operations and provides critical advantage to the warfighter.
• Cultivate international equities through engagement and development of Foreign Military Sales and NATO work programs.
• Shape into new strategic warfighting domains such as strategic non-kinetic effects including cyber effects, information warfare, and influence operations.

As Department Manager of Operations & Integration, the successful candidate will partner with the Managing Director to lead a cutting-edge team focused on developing and implementing innovative solutions to address complex national security challenges. As Department Manager (DM), the position will be accountable to the Naval Division Managing Director (MD) for all aspects of the sponsor facing and internal department operations. The DM will work with the MNS Cross-Cutting Priority Leads, Mission Centers, and Innovation Area Leads to provide additional value and increase efficiencies across work programs. The ideal candidate will have operational knowledge, technical understanding, and acquisition awareness of the most pressing mission and technology challenges facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint Force as part of executing emerging Naval and Joint warfighting concepts as well as S&T strategies.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Effectively align resources to address the right parts of the right problem with the right solution, and to streamline the integration of those solutions into operational use in partnership with the Division leadership team.
• Have a deep understanding of Naval and commercial maritime operations across C2 in contested environments, mission engineering, and international capability such as Foreign Military Sales and NATO partner capability
• Leverage this expertise to translate complex technical and operational concepts into actionable work program efforts and guide the development of effective technical solutions.
• Collaborate and partner with the other MITRE Department Managers and Chief Engineers in the implementation of the D&S Center strategy and the SECNAV & CNO priorities and shaping the work in support of the MNS priorities and other DoD sponsors.
• Develop the Department implementation plan of the D&S Strategy.
• Develop and provide oversight of the work program.
• Provide constructive feedback on leadership, staff hired, staff development, and training initiatives necessary to ensure appropriate technical quality is achieved.
• Ensures delivery of regular, constructive feedback and developmental support to Project Leaders, Group Leaders, and to staff.
• Ensures that department staff performance and compensation management activities are fair and transparent
• Developing the next generation of leadership, thought leaders, project leaders, and people leaders. Ensures the hiring, development, and shaping of the required skills, capabilities, and diversity of the department's workforce
• Interface with GO and SES-level sponsors and senior MITRE leaders to develop trusted working relationships.
• Focuses on delivering impact in terms of both division objectives and sponsor mission outcomes.
• Ability to build and work across a range of business partners in MITRE, government, and industry.
• Encourage a culture of innovation, identifying emerging technologies and trends, and driving the development of innovative solutions.
• Partner with leaders and staff to develop and execute a long-term vision for work development.
• Build and maintain strong and trusted relationships with key sponsors and stakeholders, understanding their needs and delivering exceptional value.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Communications or RF/EW/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical/Aerospace/Ocean Engineering, or a related STEM field, with 12 years of relevant experience; a Master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience; or a Ph.D. with 7 years of relevant experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in a technical field related to Naval Operations.
• Extensive experience in national security or related technical disciplines, with specialized expertise in one or more of the following areas: deterrence, strategic competition, cyber and information operations, interagency collaboration, economic courses of action, strategic mission needs, and command and control.
• Strong domain background in one or more areas of military and joint operations, combatant commands and their operations, undersea warfare, surface warfare, or other symmetric and asymmetric warfighting domains
• Proven ability to build, develop, and lead large, cohesive teams, demonstrating exceptional leadership in project management, communication, conflict resolution, and trust-building to achieve shared goals.
• Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills to support individual, team, and customer-related interaction.
• Experience managing cross-disciplinary teams spanning sponsors, technologies, and missions, with a focus on assessing concepts for novel national security systems and sensors in operational contexts.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality technical products and advising sponsors on critical issues to achieve strategic objectives and advance short- and long-term program goals.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain strategic partnerships and strong relationships with senior sponsors across diverse organizations, driving successful impacts and outcomes.
• Active TS/SCI with SAP eligibility
• U.S. Citizenship required
• This position requires a minimum of 4-days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC).
• Experience as a Department Manager, Group Leader, Project Leader or similar role
• Experience working within a highly matrix organization.
• Previous SAP experience.
• Demonstrated expertise working with United States Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or other DoD, Intelligence Community, and Interagency government organizations, including senior government leaders, as well as diverse commercial organizations from small start-ups to large established corporations.
• Proven success working across organizational boundaries, create win-win approaches for complex multi-sponsor challenges, and manage effectively through influence to achieve successful outcomes
• History of success developing new