Cyber-Physical Systems New Professional Department Manager

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The Cyber-Physical Systems division is seeking an organization leader to serve as the inaugural L565 Cyber-Physical Systems New Professional Department Manager. This department is the home for the Cyber-Physical Systems component to the MITRE Cyber New Professionals (CNP) program. CNP was established in 2017 with the aim of uniting budding experts in the cybersecurity workforce at MITRE. The CNP program is designed to equip MITRE's new professionals with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate the challenges of the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

This program offers a blend of rotational experiences across projects, on-the-job mentoring from senior staff, training for in-depth specialization, and opportunities for networking and leadership development.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Department Manager is responsible for hiring, coaching, managing, training, and developing all L560 staff members hired with two years or less of full-time experience. The DM will also closely collaborate with the L510 Cyber Operations CNP DM and L520 Cyber Engineering CNP DM to run and advance MITRE's CNP program and will align with related MITRE Technology and Engineering (MTE) new professionals programs.

The responsibilities include:

• Recruiting and hiring top talent in partnership with MITRE's Talent Acquisition team. Leading university hiring strategy for new professionals and supporting recruiting events to attract and identify diverse skilled candidates.
• Mentoring and onboarding cyber new professionals to the workforce, MITRE, and our culture and values.
• Establishing a strong cohort experience among the CNP members, so that members will have a personal network of peers throughout their MITRE careers.
• Exposing the new professionals to a diverse set of MITRE's capabilities and challenges across multiple sponsors and technical divisions, including through structured project rotations.
• Developing the workforce in this extremely fast-evolving field through state-of-the-art training and the establishment of mentors.
• Partnering with MITRE programs to connect and leverage MTE entry level staff to increase mission impact.
• 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, develop all staff into high performers, and lead pay and performance actions throughout the year.
• Contributing to the direct work program with responsibilities and contributions commensurate with high performance senior technical staff.
• Evolving the CNP program to increase its attractiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Ensuring high technical quality of work products.
• Effective execution and budget management.

Basic Qualifications:

• Business/managerial experience and recognition, combined with broad technical expertise in critical infrastructure protection, defense, intelligence analysis and deterrence.
• 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
• Demonstrated experience in solving technical cyber-physical challenges across multiple domains
• Proven track record of identifying, hiring, coaching and, cultivating junior talent
• Demonstrated ability to plan, develop, and oversee a portion of the Division's strategic resource outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, collaborate, and develop close, trusted advisor relationships with sponsors, internal stakeholders, and business-area counterparts.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at high levels within a matrixed organization, as well as across partner and potential customer organizations.
• Successful experience driving delivery of specific sponsor technical outcomes through effective work program execution.
• This position requires a clearance of: Top Secret
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• A graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Previous experience in technical development of new professionals
• Experience with defining work programs, oversight of KPI's, and execution of strategic outcomes.
• Experience supporting DoW, DHS, and/or Intelligence Community sponsors and passion for supporting these missions
• An active TS//SCI clearance with current polygraph is preferred.

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$205,500 - $257,000 - $308,500 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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