Strategic Partnerships & Operations Leader

Internal / External Partnerships

• Build and maintain relationships across MITRE, the government, and with external partners to grow and execute our work. Identify opportunities to achieve positive impacts in support of the strategic goals of the Center. Leads bid and proposal work for Government and industry sponsors.
• Understand the needs of government and industry sponsors, the capabilities and limitations of organizations working to protect critical infrastructure. Identify and support partnering opportunities.

Strategy

• Execute Center-level strategy and vision, and lead execution as a change-agent for the Center.
• Devise strategies to help the Center grow our work, identifying and implementing process improvements that will maximize output and minimize cost, while ensuring operational efficiency and increased productivity.
• Encourage and drive the adoption of the strategy and supporting plans while staying agile and responsive to changing conditions.

Operations, Finance, and Communications

• Continually assessing, proposing improvements to, and overseeing the execution of division operations
• Interacting with the division leadership team and serving as a liaison to MITRE Labs I&O, HR, and Finance, to enable the day-to-day business operations and recurring business activities.
• Leading and coordinating the support of the division’s administrative assistants for division-wide tasks
• Analyzing division business operations data (e.g., staff location, sponsor support, awards, customer demand signals, approval requests (e.g., over per diem, fee requests), etc.) to inform business operations decisions.
• Managing the Division tools to match staff to existing opportunities and identify and track work shaping activities
• Overseeing the division recruiting process to ensure a fast and positive experience for a diverse set of candidates.
• Facilitating onboarding, departures, transitions, and performance management.
• Managing, facilitating, and serving as Workday delegate for HR functions, particularly in support of annual assessments, salary management, and promotion process management.
• Managing, facilitating, and serving as Clarity delegate for project-related staffing, allocation management, budgeting, and all related activities.
• Managing, tracking, and assisting in funding, defining, executing, and maintaining technical training initiatives
• Serving as the division’s primary point of contact for Communications Management, including authoring the monthly division newsletter and curating content for the division’s MITRE internal SharePoint.
• Managing office assignments/space planning in Mc Lean
• Managing laboratories in Mc Lean

Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to collaborate effectively and tactfully with colleagues at every level of the organization
• Strong self-organization, time management skills with demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize work under tight deadlines
• High-level of business acumen with attention to detail
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, with independent decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage division activities and processes
• Operates as a dependable partner who is proactive and can anticipate needs of the business leaders
• Demonstrated skills with business and financial tools including Clarity, Workday, IW, Tableau
• Technical & Thought Leadership:
  Demonstrated strategic thinking and thought leadership in one or multiple technical domains, providing new and innovative ideas; developing strategies that create value, and understanding and leveraging technology to achieve objectives.
• Leadership Presence:
  Self-starter with a “can-do” attitude, working effectively in high-pressure situations that require sound decision making and include confidential or sensitive matters. Communicates in a compelling fashion up, down, and across the organization. Inspires trust through commitment to values and professionalism and is authoritative and confident without being arrogant. Facilitates with the proven ability to elicit best thinking of others and help guide heterogeneous teams to consensus on decisions and/or innovative solutions
• Collaborative &…