Department Manager, Operations Analysis

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Sector Summary

MITRE Technology & Engineering drives mission impact by delivering nation-leading, differentiated capabilities to a rich set of consequential national programs across the six Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that MITRE leads. Our goal is to develop solutions and deliver outcomes for our sponsors, to ensure the security, health, and prosperity of the American public. MITRE Technology & Engineering applies the expertise of technical staff and subject matter experts across our programs by fostering and developing technical talent, stewarding technical depth, conceiving and executing research, and ensuring MITRE's capabilities-people, methods, labs, platforms, and environments-remain on the leading edge.

Department Summary:

MITRE Technology & Engineering's Modeling and Analysis (M&A) Technical Division brings together researchers, engineers, mission specialists, and systems experts to translate advanced research into operationally relevant solutions. The Technical Division delivers differentiated capabilities across operational analysis, complex systems, modeling and simulation engineering, human-in-the-loop experimentation, intelligence analysis, and organizational and operational performance.

M&A seeks an organizational leader to serve as the Department Manager, Operations Analysis. The Operations Analysis department delivers innovative solutions and brings a multidisciplinary approach to sponsor challenges that are critical to national security and public sector missions. Our work involves researching, developing and applying advanced technologies in operations analysis. The successful candidate is a proven organizational leader who demonstrates technical excellence in these fields, inspirational leadership, creativity, and the flexibility to work across evolving and diverse problem sets.

The Department Manager within the M&A Technical Division is responsible for cohering and leading this department in creating innovative and disruptive solutions in the public interest, while cultivating world-class technical capabilities and workforce in the broad area of Operations Analysis. The department manager is responsible for a range of technical, business, and talent development activities. Technical capabilities and expertise include operations research, optimization, predictive modeling and forecasting, and courses of action analysis among others.

Critical to this role is the advancement of these disciplines using Artificial Intelligence and integrating Operations Analysis within the wider capability of Modeling, Simulation & Human-in-the Loop Experimentation and other capabilities supported by Operations Analysis. The Department Manager is a key member of the M&A Division Senior Leadership team and expected to collaborate across the division and across the range of MITRE's FFRDC work programs.

The Department Manager will also provide individual, senior principal technical support directly to MITRE's work programs. The Department Manager's time spent on direct sponsor contributions should be in technical leadership within the set of department capabilities.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Technical Excellence and Work Delivery

* Drive department strategy aligned with MITRE's S&T, Division technical strategies and the needs communicated by the FFRDCs

* Advance the department's technical capabilities and ensuring the technical quality and integrity of the department's work products. Provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership, and influence internally and externally across multiple stakeholders to move the mission outcome forward.

* Partner with FFRDC work programs and Project Leaders to shape, grow, and deliver impactful work by delivery high-quality technical capabilities and staff

* Optimize allocation and utilization of technical talent to maximize impact across FFRDCs

People Leadership and Talent Development

* Hire, onboard and…