Job Abstract

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The Technical Analysis Department (N923), within MITRE’s Intelligence Center, seeks a Group Leader (Principal) to advance the delivery of high quality, high impact work for our sponsors, drive innovative solutions, develop department talent, and provide thought leadership as part of the department leadership team.

The Technical Analysis Department combines deep technical expertise and operational knowledge to provide unique insights and solutions to the most challenging problems facing the US Intelligence Community and DoD. The department is reorganizing from three to four mission-focused groups: Space and Counterspace (SCS), Exploitation & Data Analysis (E&DA), Science & Technology (S&T), and Adversary Technical Intelligence (ATI). This position will lead the S&T group.

Roles & Responsibilities:
 

The successful candidate will be an active member of the department management team that plays a key role in staff management while operating in a high-performing organization that delivers effective mission support and outcomes for our sponsors. The Principal Group Leader’s responsibilities include:

• First Line Supervisor - focused on staff performance management and development for a group of six staff within the Science & Technology (S&T) Group within the Technical Analysis Department.
• Performance Management – Serves as direct supervisor for six staff providing technical support, conducting regular performance and development conversations; mentors, advocates and recognizes staff; communicates with Project/Task Leaders on staff performance; assesses staff performance and provides constructive feedback to staff.
• Sponsor Engagement – Regularly connect with sponsors to ensure mission needs are met.
• Technical Quality and Capability Development – Assists the Department management and leadership team in workforce shaping, hiring, work program development, maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities; fulfills other Department and Division management duties as needed.
• Collaboration and Communication – Proactively builds an informal MITRE network to ensure outstanding work opportunities for staff. Serves as a proactive liaison between staff and Project Leaders, department/division management, and across portfolios, and facilitates open sharing of program and/or technical area knowledge with other managers and staff.
• Individual Contributor – Actively contributes to a work program in the MNS Intel Center.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph. Due to the lengthy clearance process, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with CI or FS polygraph cannot be considered for this opening.
• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of related experience; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or 5 years and a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience with leadership/team management.
• Knowledge of the Intelligence Community with experience in the science and technology, space/counterspace, foreign military exploitation, cyber, and/or media exploitation domains.
• Extensive knowledge of MITRE’s organizational structure, work programs, and Intelligence Center efforts.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences across MITRE.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, discretion, diplomacy, tact, and be able to work with both the staff and internal/external sponsors.
• This position has an on-site requirement of at least four days a week.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record in managing staff to meet sponsor needs.
• Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the capabilities of the staff, to include high quality hires capable of work program impact and growth.
• Strong writing and editing skills including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to work well in collaborative and dynamic environments that foster innovation in areas that provide enhanced capabilities to MITRE’s sponsors and that result in significant operational benefit to the Nation.

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

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

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