Department Manager - Cyber Strategy, Policy & Privacy

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Cybersecurity, Effective communication skills, Environmental, Leadership Skill, Planning and organization

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Department Manager will be responsible for setting the technical direction of the Department's capabilities, growing a team of world-class talent, supporting development of new opportunities, and building collaborative relationships across MITRE, our sponsors, industry, and academia.

The unique elements of this DM role include:

• Advancing the Department’s capabilities through innovation, external partnering, and work program application in alignment with Division strategy. Broadening scope to integrate and leverage cyber threat intelligence, data protection approaches, strategies and governance for the combination of cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence to produce higher impact results.
• Collaborating across the Division’s capability areas, other Innovation Centers, and FFRDC program divisions to envision, create, and apply cross-cutting and impactful solutions.
• Establishing and pursuing a strategic plan to shape work – in partnership with program divisions – towards increasing the value and impact of cyber strategy, policy, and privacy consistent with expanding technical capabilities.
• Hiring, developing, retaining, and advancing world-class staff, developing or hiring staff to fill technical capability gap areas.
• Serving as a mentor and fostering a culture of technical creativity and mission impact.
• Developing the next generation of leadership – thought leaders, project leaders, and people leaders.
• Educating MITRE project leaders and sponsors on Department capabilities, expertise, and impact.
• Ensuring that Department staff performance and compensation management activities are fair and transparent.
• Responding to requests for information about the Department and its technical capabilities
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities to improve the inclusion and diversity of the Department's work and staff.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Partnering with MITRE programs to connect and leverage solutions and staff to increase mission impact. Partnering with and supporting Cyber Engagement Leads to identify appropriate needs and opportunities across MITRE’s sponsor base.
• Fostering an environment of innovation, technical leadership, collaboration, camaraderie, and quality across the department’s wide geography.
• Supporting, managing, and partnering with Group Leaders to mentor and grow members, ensure staff are aligned to high priority work that leverages their strengths, recognize staff for their accomplishments, work with under-performing staff, and lead pay and performance actions throughout the year.
• Participating as a member of the Cyber Solutions Innovation Center Leadership Team, helping to steer the Division’s expertise and innovation to support sponsor operational cybersecurity missions and to align new professional talent acquisition and growth to emerging needs.
• Contributing to the direct work program with responsibilities and contributions commensurate with high performance senior technical staff.
• Ensuring high technical quality of work products.
• Directly managing department budgets.

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.
• Proven depth and recognized stature in one or more cybersecurity technical capability areas.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaboration across organizational units.
• Track record of successfully hiring, guiding, and supporting senior technical staff.
• Experience managing a high-performing team of at least 8 people.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security 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):

Secret

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

Top Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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