MOIE and XCP Operations Principal

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MITRE National Security Sector (MNS) and the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC is placing significant emphasis and focus into solving challenging problems that cut across all Departments and Agencies, Industry, and International Partners. As a systems engineering and integration FFRDC, NSEC fulfills the important role of assisting the DoD in solving its most challenging problems that require integration across the Services, other DoD agencies, the Intelligence Community, and the Interagency. Boundaries across these different organizations limit the DoD’s ability to discover how integration and collaboration could enable cross-cutting solutions and to identify and develop these solutions. The breadth of its connectivity, spanning warfighters and other operators, technology developers, acquisition offices, and the intelligence agencies, puts the NSEC in a unique position to help address this gap. This is an important way in which the NSEC proactively assesses capability gaps and needs by mission rather than by system or Military Service and focus on outcome rather than process.

The Mission Innovation and Integration Division, N570, identifies the nation’s most consequential emerging National Security mission challenges, aligns MITRE’s capabilities, investments, and partnerships to address them, and accelerates the transition of solutions into operational use for our sponsors. Rather than creating another organization, our role is to serve as an integrator across MNS—connecting sponsor demand, technical capabilities, partnerships, and investments to help deliver differentiated mission impact.

The N570 team oversees the NSEC Cross-Cutting Priorities and facilitates coordination for the NSEC Mission-Oriented Experimentation and Innovation (MOIE) funds portion of the MITRE Independent Research and Development (IRAD) program, representing the MNS Sector-level challenges and funding priorities. We are currently seeking a Cleared Cross-Cutting Operations Principal to join our organization to serve in a dynamic, fast-moving role. Candidates should possess a breadth of technical skills, domain knowledge, operations, and project-management experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor resourcing across select XCP and MNS IR&D efforts to ensure financial performance, appropriate staffing coverage, and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Coordinate operations for the NSEC MOIE program with the MITRE IR&D team, research program leaders, the Office of the CTO, and other key stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and improve project management artifacts, including project files, schedules, records, TS/SCI communications, documentation, libraries, and repositories to promote organizational transparency and standardization.
• Facilitate and manage team communication channels, collaboration tools, and internal websites to support effective information sharing and team engagement.
• Continuously assess, improve, and standardize business operations and program management processes in collaboration with the broader MITRE operations and program management community.
• Develop, maintain, and leverage dashboards to provide timely program status, resource visibility, and funding insights, ensuring NSEC MOIE funding requirements are identified and addressed.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across a matrixed organization, partnering with leadership, technical staff, administrative teams, sponsors, and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate MNS, XCP, Sector-level Challenge IR&D, and senior leadership engagements to support strategic initiatives and cross-organizational collaboration.
• Partner across MNS, MNS Cross-Cutting Priorities, MNS Chief Engineers, and MITRE IR&D to drive strategic priorities, improve business operations, and foster collaboration across a large, agile organization.
• Lead and manage strategic initiatives, independent project teams, and other cross-functional efforts as assigned to advance MNS and N570 organizational objectives.

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.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Sharepoint, MS Lists, MS Power Automate/Workflows, Excel
• Knowledge Management – maintaining, building, and working cooperatively to manage information and documentation relevant to XCP, Nexus, MOIE, etc.
• Strong organization skills, project management and leadership a must
• Strong communication skills – working with and coordinating upto the Director and VP level.
• Strong project leadership – comfortable taking the lead to follow up, push for responses, and follow up to ensure tasks and products are completed.
• Ability to judge the quality, accuracy and completeness of submitted products, follow up when necessary.
• Experience with vent coordination (particularly at the classified level(s)) – for R&T, classified seminars, etc
• Stewardship for technical review of slide, including appropriately labeling information classification and creating decks that have similar feels despite coming from different teams with multiple people
• Active Top Secret clearance with an ability to obtain SCI access within one year.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to build trust quickly with senior sponsors and operate with discretion, sound judgment, and minimal direction.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment, establish and leverage a diverse professional network, and integrate contributions from a variety of resources (people, tools, organizations).
• Demonstrated ability to build collaboration across organizational units.

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/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$162,400 - $203,000 - $243,600 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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