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Department Summary:

The Acceleration Office is the focal point of MITRE-wide acceleration activities that supports MITRE’s three business sectors, achieving new levels in the speed of gap identification / validation and scalable disruptive solution delivery for a small number of brand building projects at MITRE. It drives the rapid delivery of breakthroughs in applied science and advanced technology, combined with strong levering of global partners and unique business models that enable positive disruption for our sponsors most urgent missions and our nations continued economic leadership and ensure the future of U.S. scientific and economic leadership.

The Acceleration Office runs the MITRE-Wide Accelerator, the Acceleration Café, and the special purpose entity MITRE Engenuity, enabling MITRE to provide distance when appropriate, for private sector and for-profit entity partnering and consortia building, working across all of our six FFRDCs that MITRE operates on behalf of its sponsors. The MITRE Acceleration Office (AO) also works with federal, state, and local governments and has robust partnerships with industry, consortia, non-profits and academia to drive impact in the public interest.

Job Description:

The Accelerator Operations Senior is responsible for contributing to operational outcomes across the Acceleration Office for business and project finances, labor planning, capacity, and delivery.  The position contributes to developing, refining, and managing processes around program delivery and partnering across the AO and corporate functions to improve business results for projects and programs.

The Operations Senior contributes to operations functions to plan, develop, execute, and measure outcomes across AO’s MITRE Wide Accelerator, Acceleration Café, and MITRE Enginuity as part of the operations team. The Operations Senior identifies areas to improve organizational speed and efficiency supporting Accelerator goals.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engage within Accelerator operations team to create, maintain, and track Accelerator wide goals and performance to plan within business programs and projects
• Contribute to strategies and plans supporting business objectives for successful project execution
• Maintain, improve and support Accelerator operational processes within operations team
• Support MwA projects operational needs as a embedded team member
• Participate in cross team engagements, initiatives, and special projects as assigned
• Support planning and execution of Acceleration Café, Roadshows, and Accelerator events
• Contribute to the development of plans and materials for key meetings, business reviews, and employee engagement events
• Maintain operational cadence between projects and support teams
• Support project / program leads for resource & cost planning, project material acquisition, and customer
• Support identification and execution of workforce development and planning across organization
• Work with other operations team members to define and improve processes within the Accelerator

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree is required and 5+ years applicable experience is required
• Must be a US citizen capabl of obtaining and maintaining a clearance.
• A customer service mindset focused on minimizing barriers to execution
• High proficiency with MS Excel and MS office application usage
• Quantitative mindset with proven skills in financial management and budgeting
• Experience overseeing project management and creating presentations and visualizations of timelines, milestones, and objectives related to budgets and resources
• Significant experience in operations or finance in a diverse, technology-focused organization
• Significant experience and demonstrated excellence partnering with support functions, including human resources, finance, and talent acquisition.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategy – experience contributing to strategy and executing work programs
• Program and project management - proven experience contributing to work programs
• Change management - proven success leading or supporting large-scale change management initiatives and/or transformations
• Communications - experience supporting team communications in one-on-one and small group settings, to drive consensus and lead change management. 
• Relationship management – experience supporting communications in one-on-one and small group settings
• Problem-solving - must have proven ability to problem solve and execute plans while operating in a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities.

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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