Principal, Communications - MITRE National Security Security Clearance

Position: Principal, Communications - MITRE National Security with Security Clearance
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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. The MITRE Communications and External Affairs organization helps MITRE communicate with clarity, consistency, and impact across the audiences that matter most to our mission. The organization leads mission and enterprise communications, external affairs, executive communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, events, digital channels, and reputation management in support of MITRE's public-interest mission.

It embeds domain-fluent communicators with MITRE's mission sectors to shape the narratives, campaigns, content, and stakeholder engagement that advance MITRE's impact. This role will lead end-to-end communications strategy for MITRE National Security: setting communications priorities, defining priority audiences, shaping clear narratives, aligning internal and external channels, supporting executives and subject matter experts, managing reputational risk, and measuring whether communications are building understanding, trust, and advocacy.

The work should help sponsors, policy stakeholders, industry partners, employees, and other key audiences understand why MITRE's national security work matters and how it supports mission outcomes

Roles & Responsibilities : MITRE is seeking a senior, national security-fluent communications leader to serve as the sector-deployed communications lead for MITRE National Security. This role is one of three senior-level communications positions aligned to MITRE's mission executives and reporting directly to the Vice President, Communications and External Affairs. This leader will develop and drive the end-to-end communications strategy for MITRE National Security, including setting communications priorities, defining key audiences, shaping clear narratives, aligning internal and external channels, supporting executives and subject matter experts, managing reputational risk, and measuring whether communications are building understanding, trust, and advocacy.

The work should help sponsors, policy stakeholders, industry partners, employees, and other key audiences understand why MITRE's national security work matters and how it supports mission outcomes. The ideal candidate can operate as both a trusted advisor to senior leaders and a hands-on communications practitioner. They must be able to work credibly with executives, sponsor-facing leaders, technical experts, government affairs partners, and communicators across MITRE.

National security domain fluency is essential, including the ability to understand mission priorities, sponsor perspectives, technical stakes, policy sensitivities, and the audiences MITRE must reach across defense, intelligence, homeland security, cyber, space, emerging technology, critical infrastructure, and related national security areas.

Key Responsibilities:

* Develop and lead the end-to-end communications strategy for MITRE National Security, from priority-setting and narrative development through audience planning, channel strategy, content execution, executive support, stakeholder engagement, measurement, and after-action improvement.

* Shape proactive communications campaigns around a short list of priority national security topics and mission outcomes, focusing time and resources on the issues where communications can most improve understanding, trust, influence, and impact.

* Use an audience-first approach for every major effort: define the priority audience, the desired action or understanding, the message, the best channel, the right messenger, and the measure of success before content is created.

* Serve as a strategic communications advisor to MITRE National Security executives, leaders, and subject matter experts on messaging, narrative, stakeholder engagement, public affairs, media engagement, strategic visits, crisis communications, and reputational risk.

* Translate complex national security, technical, policy, and mission content into clear communications products, including executive…