Department Manager, Trade, Technology, and Standards

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s newly established Commerce division is responsible for leading the U.S. Department of Commerce work program through the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC). The new division is establishing three new departments that will be responsible for partnering with the U.S. Department of Commerce to build a stronger, more resilient U.S. economy:

• Federal Statistics, Data Science and Integration Department
• Oceans and Atmosphere Department
• Trade, Technology and Standards Department
  
  

The departments will be responsible for deeply understanding the priorities of the Department of Commerce and its component bureaus’ missions (e.g., NIST, NTIA, ITA, BIS) and developing system engineering solutions and data analytic related capabilities to solve the nation’s most pressing economic issues. The departments will support activities within the Commerce Division and in direct engagements with DOC stakeholders. The departments will serve as key resources across the Center for Government Effectiveness and Modernization (CGEM) and act as gateways to MITRE’s Independent Research and Development program, Labs and National Security Sector.

The Department Manager for the Trade, Technology and Standards Department will be responsible for leading and managing MITRE’s portfolio of projects with DOC bureaus and offices responsible for:

• Creating prosperity by strengthening the international competitiveness of U.S. industry, promoting trade and investment, and ensuring fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements. Priorities include promoting U.S. exports, attracting inbound investment, providing actionable data and information and defending against unfair trade
• Advancing national security through technology leadership and vigilant export controls, which includes national security, economic security, cyber security, and homeland security; and promote a strong and vibrant defense industrial base that can develop and provide technologies that will enable the United States to maintain its military superiority.
• Advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues, focused largely on expanding broadband Internet access and adoption in America, expanding the use of spectrum by all users, and ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth.
• Promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. Measurement science, rigorous traceability, and the development and use of standards are core components.
  
  

As an operator of FFRDCs, we help the government build a better tomorrow, for all.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Accountable to respective Managing Director for the successful planning, development, and execution of a portion of the portfolio’s sponsor strategic outcomes and associated work program, as well as responsible for ensuring products delivered to sponsors from the department are of high technical quality, and ensures the hiring, development, and support of their workforce.

The successful candidate must partner with Department of Commerce sponsors by demonstrating credible expertise and knowledge of Department of Commerce and the various bureaus’ missions and building strong MITRE capabilities and branding to assist the government in keeping the U.S. economy and its industries competitive globally.

Essential Job Functions:

• Plans, develops, and oversees a portion of the Division’s sponsor strategic outcomes
• Ensures product technical quality for all work assigned to their department as identified in the work plan
• Supports the Director by providing specific sponsor/program knowledge and expertise
• In partnership with the Director, Outcome Leads and Project Leads, develops close working relationships with sponsor counterparts, serving as a trusted advisor
• In partnership with Directors, Chief Engineers, Department Managers and Outcome Leads, develops and shapes a work program to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes
• Accountable for strategic work‐shaping opportunities consistent with work program strategy
• Collaborates with Divisions and Centers to leverage related activities, use of shared resources, and re‐use of existing products
• Ensures the hiring, development, and shaping of the required skills, capabilities, and diversity of the department’s workforce through effective hiring, ongoing coaching and staff development, and monitoring of staff engagement
• Effectively engages staff who fall short of expectations & initiates appropriate and timely actions to address poor performance
• Works with project leaders to ensure that all staff are appropriately assigned to projects and fully planned
• Represents the needs and perspectives of staff to Division leadership
• Advocates for department competencies and establishes new work within the Division
• Provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership, and influence internally and externally across multiple stakeholders to move the mission outcome forward.
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

• MITRE’s Good Growth Strategy, Vision and Mission: Effectively executes the strategy, vision, and mission
• Work Program Definition and Oversight: Internalizes and execution of strategic outcomes
• Multi-level Sponsor Engagement: Sponsor/stakeholder engagements or enterprise wide engagements
• Develop Our People: Acquires, develops, coaches, leads, and enables an inclusive and diverse workforce
• Collaboration and Communications: Effectively collaborates and communicates with sponsors and stakeholders or with internal stakeholders enterprise wide
• The MITRE Brand: Ensures product or program quality and is aligned to MITRE Brand
  
  

Good Steward of Resources: Effectively manages the operations of a department (revenue, costs, people, etc.)

Key Cultural/Behavior Attributes:

• Speed
• Risk-taking
• Adaptability
• Grace and respect
• Collaboration
  
  

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 - 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.
  
  

Key Organizational Criteria:

• Leads a department or function that has significant impact for sponsors, partners, and/or MITRE enterprise
• Department or function provides multiple services or complex products/ solutions
• Has multiple direct reports or leads a function
  
  

Key Accountabilities:

• Day‐to‐day interface with sponsors or internal customers to develop trusted working relationships
• All aspects of project or department performance, including staff selection, technical quality, programmatic support, and budgetary development/execution and are supported by their management
• High technical quality of products or programs
• Ensures delivery of regular, constructive feedback and developmental support to Project Leaders or to staff
• Development of future MITRE leaders
• People have clear expectations and goals that contribute to important sponsor or enterprise strategic outcomes as well as project level outcomes
  
  

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 minimum of 4 years working knowledge, familiarity with DOC mission
• Must have minimum of 4 years’ experience working with senior sponsor leaders (GS-15 and above)
• Must have minimum of 4 years prior experience managing large teams
• Must have minimum of 4 years prior experience and a proven successful track record of delivering large and diverse work programs.
• Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships and work collaboratively across MITRE and across sponsors
• Experience in developing cross enterprise outcomes and coordinating their implementation within government
• Demonstrated technical and business leadership
• Demonstrated ability to shape and drive high impact, high quality work programs
• Demonstrated commitment to the Department of Commerce’s mission
• Ability to obtain a US government security clearance
• This position has an on-site requirement of 4 days a week on-site
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ideally has proven successful track record of managing large and diverse work program with Department of Commerce.
• Top Secret / SCI (Preferred)
  
  

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):

None

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$182,000 - $227,500 - $273,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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