Director of Operations, Cybersecurity Programs

Overview

The Director of Operations, Cybersecurity Programs will be responsible for driving growth and business execution across DoD domains (land, sea, air, space, and cyber) with a strong emphasis on Cyber markets. This role requires delivering on customer requirements while achieving company business and financial objectives. The Director will be accountable for building and maintaining strategic relationships with key customer personnel, including decision makers, influencers, and end users, who directly impact program success.

They will also provide oversight for projects and program teams within their portfolio, ensuring both tactical execution and strategic alignment. The ideal candidate will bring proven experience managing operational delivery in an integrated environment that connects program teams with other business units and functional organizations.

Competencies:

Ensuring Accountability:

Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, and creating an infrastructure and transparent corporate culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.

Establishes systems and processes for ensuring accountability:

• Broadly communicates relevant standards, codes and legislation and consequences for non-compliance.
• Establishes monitoring systems that respect the full accountability of teams and are limited to the most critical risks.
• Establishes organizational systems for: defining authorities / responsibilities; tracking, monitoring and measuring success; assessing and managing risk; etc.
• Establishes performance metrics to help understand how individuals, teams, and the whole organization are doing relative to the objectives.
• Holds other leaders accountable for giving individuals/teams the freedom in deciding how to get work done.
• Addresses systemic barriers that undermine personal and team accountability.

Achievement Orientation:

Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent that meet or exceed standard expectations.

Improves organizational performance:

• Sets highly challenging and attainable goals for own organizational area.
• Assesses group performance against goals to identify areas for improvement.
• Improves inefficient/ineffective work processes.
• Uses positive motivational approaches, tailored to diverse individuals and groups, to help staff improve performance, maximize results, and minimize risk.

Fostering Communication:

Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus.

Adapts communication:

• Tailors communication (e.g., content, style and medium) to diverse audiences.
• Reads cues from diverse listeners to assess when and how to change planned communication approach to effectively deliver message.
• Communicates with all organizational levels.
• Understands others' complex or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns, communicating effectively despite the sensitivity of the situation.

Team Leadership:

Assuming a leadership role in helping others achieve excellent results.

Builds strong teams:

• Addresses gaps in team expertise.
• Resolves conflict among team members through fair procedures, respecting each person's feelings.
• Delegates authority to match responsibility, holding staff accountable for agreed upon commitments.
• Supports staff in taking independent action, providing coaching along the way.
• Delegates responsibility rather than taking charge or micro-managing when staff have the capability.

Collaborating with Others:

Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals.

Fosters collaboration:

• Gives credit and acknowledgement for contributions and efforts of others.
• Provides constructive feedback to others.
• Helps build consensus among members of groups.
• Provides opportunities for all group members to contribute to group discussions.

Client Focus:

Providing service excellence to internal and/or external clients.

Provides added value:

• Looks for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests.
• Addresses the unidentified, underlying and long-term client needs.
• Enhances client service delivery systems and processes.
• Anticipat…