The MITRE Corporation
Intel Strategy and Policy, Principal Group Lead
The MITRE Corporation, Mc Lean, Virginia, us, 22107
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Within MITRE’s Intelligence Center the Strategy and Policy Department has the mission to enhance our sponsors’ policy formulation, planning, and strategy execution across the national security enterprise through all-source intelligence and resource analysis that informs decision-making to address threats in an era of strategic competition. Our vision is to guide the formulation and implementation of strategy and policy that enables sponsor transformation and addresses emerging national and global challenges by unlocking the full potential of intelligence analysis to advance the missions of our sponsors. The Department is accountable and responsible for programs with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
The Strategy and Policy Department seeks a collaborative, risk taking, and innovative Intel Strategy and Policy, Principal Group Leader to advance the delivery of high quality, high impact work for our sponsors, drive innovative solutions, develop Department talent, and provide thought leadership as part of the Department leadership team. The Department manages, guides, and directs technical and domain-specific work focused on enhancing the nation’s intelligence efforts at the strategic level and providing enterprise-wide solutions to the Intelligence Community’s toughest challenges. The work program requires operating at senior-levels of government, including routine coordination/collaboration with the National Security Council Staff and agencies and departments with strategy and policy equities. Our efforts directly support the U.S policymaking, acquisition, research & development, and warfighting communities which requires comprehensive understanding of the IC, its partners, and stakeholders.
Roles & Responsibilities:
First Line Supervisor - focused on staff performance management and development for a group of 6-8 staff within the Strategy and Policy Department
Department and Staff Engagement – Serves as direct supervisor for 8-10 staff providing technical support, conducting regular performance and development conversations; mentors, advocates and recognizes staff; communicates with Project/Task Leaders on staff performance; assesses staff performance and provides constructive feedback to staff
Sponsor Engagement and Relations Management – Engage with sponsors to ensure mission needs are met
Technical Quality, Execution and Capability Development – Assists the Department management and leadership team in workforce shaping, hiring, work program development, maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities; fulfills other Department and Division management duties as assigned
Collaboration and Communication – Supports regular communication between staff and Project/Task Leaders, serves as a proactive liaison between staff and Department/upper management, seeks collaboration opportunities across portfolios, and facilitates open sharing of program and/or technical area knowledge with other managers and staff
Individual Contributor – Actively contributes to a work program in the MNS Intel Center
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
6 years’ experience in a leadership role
An existing, active TS/SCI clearance with current polygraph
Extensive knowledge of the USG’s National Security Enterprise – specially with ODNI, OUSD I&S, and DIA and the greater Intelligence Community
Extensive knowledge of MITRE’s organizational structure, work programs, and Intelligence Center efforts
This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven track record in managing staff to meet sponsor needs
Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the capabilities of the staff, to include high quality hires capable of work program impact and growth
Strong writing and editing skills including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff
Demonstrated ability to work well in collaborative and dynamic environments that foster innovation in areas that provide enhanced capabilities to MITRE’s sponsors and that result in significant operational benefit to the Nation
Leadership:
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):
Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
Work Location Type:
Onsite
MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website EEO is the Law Poster and Pay Transparency.
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Within MITRE’s Intelligence Center the Strategy and Policy Department has the mission to enhance our sponsors’ policy formulation, planning, and strategy execution across the national security enterprise through all-source intelligence and resource analysis that informs decision-making to address threats in an era of strategic competition. Our vision is to guide the formulation and implementation of strategy and policy that enables sponsor transformation and addresses emerging national and global challenges by unlocking the full potential of intelligence analysis to advance the missions of our sponsors. The Department is accountable and responsible for programs with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
The Strategy and Policy Department seeks a collaborative, risk taking, and innovative Intel Strategy and Policy, Principal Group Leader to advance the delivery of high quality, high impact work for our sponsors, drive innovative solutions, develop Department talent, and provide thought leadership as part of the Department leadership team. The Department manages, guides, and directs technical and domain-specific work focused on enhancing the nation’s intelligence efforts at the strategic level and providing enterprise-wide solutions to the Intelligence Community’s toughest challenges. The work program requires operating at senior-levels of government, including routine coordination/collaboration with the National Security Council Staff and agencies and departments with strategy and policy equities. Our efforts directly support the U.S policymaking, acquisition, research & development, and warfighting communities which requires comprehensive understanding of the IC, its partners, and stakeholders.
Roles & Responsibilities:
First Line Supervisor - focused on staff performance management and development for a group of 6-8 staff within the Strategy and Policy Department
Department and Staff Engagement – Serves as direct supervisor for 8-10 staff providing technical support, conducting regular performance and development conversations; mentors, advocates and recognizes staff; communicates with Project/Task Leaders on staff performance; assesses staff performance and provides constructive feedback to staff
Sponsor Engagement and Relations Management – Engage with sponsors to ensure mission needs are met
Technical Quality, Execution and Capability Development – Assists the Department management and leadership team in workforce shaping, hiring, work program development, maintaining awareness of emerging technical issues and opportunities; fulfills other Department and Division management duties as assigned
Collaboration and Communication – Supports regular communication between staff and Project/Task Leaders, serves as a proactive liaison between staff and Department/upper management, seeks collaboration opportunities across portfolios, and facilitates open sharing of program and/or technical area knowledge with other managers and staff
Individual Contributor – Actively contributes to a work program in the MNS Intel Center
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
6 years’ experience in a leadership role
An existing, active TS/SCI clearance with current polygraph
Extensive knowledge of the USG’s National Security Enterprise – specially with ODNI, OUSD I&S, and DIA and the greater Intelligence Community
Extensive knowledge of MITRE’s organizational structure, work programs, and Intelligence Center efforts
This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven track record in managing staff to meet sponsor needs
Experience in shaping the workforce and skill mix to develop the capabilities of the staff, to include high quality hires capable of work program impact and growth
Strong writing and editing skills including demonstrated ability to articulate complex topics to sponsors and staff
Demonstrated ability to work well in collaborative and dynamic environments that foster innovation in areas that provide enhanced capabilities to MITRE’s sponsors and that result in significant operational benefit to the Nation
Leadership:
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):
Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph
Work Location Type:
Onsite
MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website EEO is the Law Poster and Pay Transparency.
MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email recruitinghelp@mitre.org.
Copyright 2024, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only.
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