Job Abstract

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

The National Cybersecurity Division of the National Cybersecurity FFRDC (NCF) is part of the Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH). The NCF is focused on the development and implementation of best practices and technological advancements for current and emerging technology areas related to cybersecurity. The Advancing Technologies Department is focused on emerging technology areas and the cybersecurity opportunities and risks associated with them.  This department also focuses on how these technologies can mature and how they can be integrated to provide enhanced capabilities. The department manager will oversee all aspects of project and department performance, technical quality, development, and budget.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Grow Our Work

• Expand the impact of the division through targeted engagement with the executive sponsor, other government agencies, state/local/international organizations as well as industry.
• Shape the departments portfolio to ensure we are working on the Sponsors most pressing challenges and delivering impactful and actionable products.
• Partner across MITRE to identify relevant opportunities to connect Sponsors, work programs, and internal MITRE capabilities to advance Sponsor outcomes and increase efficiencies.

Grow our Team

• Ensure department staff stay current in their knowledge of emerging trends and technologies through training, mentoring and strategic staffing.
• Make strategic hires for long term division needs
• Ensures delivery of regular, constructive feedback and developmental support to staff
• Identify strategic partnerships external to MITRE that can help increase impact and expand our capabilities
• Development of future MITRE leaders

Grow our Organization

• Identify capabilities, labs, and offerings to invest in to increase our ability to have impact
• Shape the organization to enhance our ability to create solutions to our Sponsors biggest challenges

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. 
• Technical expertise and recognition in a branch of cybersecurity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both untrained and expert audiences.
• Inspires trust through vision for the program and the work environment they create; a demonstrated leader MITRE people want to follow. 
• Can-do attitude and history of entrepreneurial success.
• Ability to exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, and collaborative environments.
• Demonstrated track record in learning about and rapidly responding to new problems across a variety of domains.
• Demonstrated understanding of state of the art and best practices in cybersecurity and key technical communities outside of MITRE.
• Demonstrated proficiency in both virtual and live presentation of complex technical issues.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS SCI/Fitness clearance within one year of employment.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to create, articulate, and motivate transformative concepts and outcomes and achieve practical outcomes in complex operational environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in broad areas of cybersecurity spanning across civil sectors and national security missions.
• Demonstrated track record in building strong internal and external partnerships.
• Experience with leveraging solutions from leading academic and commercial research groups.

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):

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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