Project Leader, Special Projects Team

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Department Summary:

The Advanced Capabilities Department (N162) within the Integrated All-Domain Effects Division (N160) in MITRE's Air and Space Forces Center seeks a Project Leader (PL) for a large, technically diverse, and mission-focused project. The Advanced Capabilities Department focuses on developing and enabling capabilities to counter peer adversaries and enable the US to project power and operate within highly contested environments. Many of the capabilities being developed and integrated require partnerships between the Air Force, other services, and the Intelligence Community (IC).

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Project Leader is responsible for all aspects of the project, which encompasses a large, complex work program with multiple stakeholders and objectives. The Project Leader will have opportunities to drive and contribute to major design, investment, and requirements decisions by the DAF in developing next-generation weapons systems and warfighter capabilities. Technical functions include leading, developing and executing test and evaluation activities in support of program milestones, conducting analyses of COTS, GOTS, and custom capabilities, providing objective technical guidance to shape and define program objectives and requirements, and building and leading multi-disciplinary project teams while simultaneously managing the competing equities of multiple government program managers. This is an opportunity to develop and expand your project leadership and technical skills while contributing to a distinctive project with cross-cutting impact. This position requires initiative, creative leadership, deep technical expertise in a relevant field and demonstrated Project Management experience, as well as embracing, embodying, and executing MITRE's cultural attributes of speed, adaptability, and risk-taking. This ~25 PTS project supports N160's keystone sponsors as part of an integrated portfolio of high-impact projects, and has touchpoints across the DAF, DoD, and IC.

N160 especially emphasizes several core PL responsibilities:

Impact

• Provide direct technical contributions to the project
• Shape and define project tasks and workstreams to achieve greatest impact

Project Strategy

• Continually work to shape the project to maximize impact given resource constraints
• Establish and document work objectives to "go beyond" the FY boundary and to have an "exit plan" or "maturity plan"
• Establish cross-project collaborations with shared outcomes and multi-stakeholder buy-in.

Staff Development

• Demonstrates and promotes MITRE's cultural attributes (speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect)
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship across teams

• Providing regular feedback to staff and contributing to staff development

Project Execution

• Collaborate with sponsor for developing documentation for work definition and defense dollar ceiling (DDC) requests
• Managing the equities of multiple stakeholders
• Maintaining an accurate and complete staffing plan
• Completion of monthly highlights and project annual report

Technical Quality

• Execution/implementation of N162 Technical Quality norms and process
• Collaborate across MNS, MPS, and MITRE Labs to ensure the right staff are being applied

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
• Must have prior experience working in Special Access Programs (SAPs)
• An existing, active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to be cleared for Special Access Programs.
• Proven track record in making technical contributions including work shaping to meet sponsor needs.
• Experience with all aspects of project management, such as work shaping, staff planning and selection, recruiting, budgeting, and reporting
• Strong knowledge of the DoD and DAF sponsor space and missions, with experience working at senior levels across and within multiple organizations
• Superior sponsor engagement and communications skills and experience in sensitive, high-risk customer contexts
• Strong writing, editing, and interpersonal skills including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong technical background in multiple of the following areas: advanced sensor technologies, modeling and simulation, complex systems engineering, digital engineering, electronic warfare, offensive cyber, software engineering
• MS or equivalent and 15 or more years of experience in relevant domain.
• Knowledge of MITRE's value proposition, organizational structure, and work programs
• TS/SCI, SAP

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

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

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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