Department Operations Lead

Department Operations Lead

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The MITRE National Security Sector (MNS) and its National Security Engineering Center (NSEC) FFRDC solve the nation's most complex security challenges across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, interagency partners, industry, and allies. The Naval Division (N230) is seeking a Department Operations Lead for the new Fleet Modernization Department, which drives sea denial across all warfare domains, modernizing Fleet capabilities within the Air, Surface, Undersea and Cyber domains and delivering maritime superiority and fleet lethality in a dynamic, contested environment. This role ensures department-level alignment, coordination, and execution of work that delivers lasting impact to the Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint Force.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Organize, schedule, and coordinate portfolio activities, including technical reviews, sponsor engagements, staff planning, and deliverables.
• Support programs spend plan development, cost-driver and trade-off analysis, forecasting, and financial management for department projects.
• Coordinate closely with Division Business Operations to document, review, and improve portfolio operating procedures, project planning norms, and aid the roll out of Division initiatives.
• Drive project management best practices across work planning, financial management, cost control, and timely delivery of required project reports to work program sponsors in collaboration with project leaders and business operations staff.
• Support project leaders in understanding, articulating, and implementing government defense dollar ceiling and exclusion guidance into Project Work Statements (PWS), ensuring exclusion work types are accurately reflected in project billable structure.
• Prepare comprehensive management reporting leveraging financial summaries and dashboards using tools such as Microsoft Excel, Tableau, and other BI platforms.
• Support business administration, business intelligence (BI), and business operations to ensure effective portfolio oversight.
• Lead information management and knowledge management activities to capture, organize, and share deliverables, decisions, and lessons learned.
• Leverage collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Office Suite to coordinate across distributed teams.
• Provide clear and timely communication on portfolio health, execution status, and project risks to leadership and sponsors.
• Track interdependencies, risks, and progress across projects; recommend solutions and escalation paths as needed.
• Assist with staff onboarding, training coordination, and capability development planning.
• Support proposal coordination and pipeline development by capturing lessons learned and aligning with emerging mission needs.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) : 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 : $105,000 - $131,000 - $157,000 Annual. Work Location Type : Onsite. Commitment to Non-Discrimination : All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals.