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MITRE’s National Security Sector is helping lead a dramatic shift in how the U.S. and partner nations solve problems for a safer world. MITRE seeks to grow sovereign national security and civil capabilities within the Commonwealth of Australia to solve complex problems that impact the Australia and the U.S.; create social benefit and economic opportunity; and build a safer and better world for today and future generations. The Commonwealth of Australia faces broad-based system engineering challenges that require engineering and scientific research expertise that draws upon multiple disciplines and government service domains, as well as partnership with a trusted advisor that is objective in its assessments and free from conflicts of interest. This trusted advisor role is especially valuable as the Commonwealth invests in efforts to uplift innovation, enhance sovereign capabilities, bolster the defence industrial base, strengthen coalition interoperability, and contribute to the success of the Australia, United Kingdom, and U.S. tri-lateral agreement (AUKUS).

MITRE brings extensive experience operating Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) for the U.S. government in the domains of national security and intelligence, homeland security, health, cybersecurity, transportation and government modernization, encompassing technical areas that are strategically critical to the Commonwealth. MITRE's extension of its resources to Australia and the creation of new and advanced sovereign capabilities is increasing technology integration, readiness and interoperability within, and between, the governments of both countries to the benefit of the U.S.-Australia alliance.

MITRE Australia supports the Commonwealth delivering on MITRE’s core competencies including, but not limited to: systems engineering and integration; modeling and simulation; digital engineering (DE); advanced command and control (C2); command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR); space; cyber; electronic warfare/information warfare; artificial intelligence and machine learning; quantum computing and sensing; autonomous systems; hyper-sonics/counter-hypersonics; undersea technologies; bioengineering; and other cross-domain, leap-ahead technologies.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

As Managing Director, you will be known across the Commonwealth for your trusted partnership with government, thought leadership on large-scale challenges, technical excellence and established track record executing complex endeavours from strategic, operational, and financial perspectives. You will serve as the senior executive for the MITRE Australia team and provide leadership across all aspects of MITRE’s Australian initiatives. In this role, you will:

• Be accountable for MITRE’s operations, business outcomes and employee base in Australia.

• Provide the senior management interface with major customers and stakeholders across the Government of Australia and serve as a strategic partner in critical mission areas.

• Deliver on contractual commitments to customers, meeting business and financial objectives.

• Identify organic and inorganic growth opportunities and obtain funding in new areas where MITRE can provide high impact solutions to critical Australian challenges.

• Partner with U.S. customers for synergistic opportunities between Australia and the U.S. and identify and resolve limitations that inhibit opportunities to promote collaboration and information sharing.

• Align MITRE Australia strategic objectives and operating plan with broader MITRE strategy; identify and anticipate strategic and complex trends, opportunities, and issues; continually shape opportunity planning and strategic execution to grow sovereign capabilities to achieve mission impact and enable good growth. Collaborate and partner with senior MITRE, Commonwealth and industry/academia leadership to identify, align, plan and execute growth strategies in delivering solutions.

• Build and shape a high-calibre, high-performance multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed team capable of delivering mission-critical work across a spectrum of customers.

• Provide accountability for a qualified new business pipeline to meet good growth objectives, other performance metrics, and alignment with MITRE Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDC) sponsoring agreements.

• Develop facilities, classified infrastructure, and laboratory capabilities to enable sponsor mission needs. Create and sustain external partnerships to advance MITRE Australia strategy and sponsor missions.

• Manage investment budgets, allocations, indirect costs and reporting to achieve a financially stable and sustainable not-for-profit business model in Australia.

• Ensure strong governance and oversight of MITRE’s Australian operations as a member of the MITRE Australia subsidiary board, working with MITRE senior leadership and MITRE’s Australian external advisory council.

  Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated readiness to be the lead executive and public face of MITRE’s Australian operations.

• Strong leadership presence, demonstrated thought leadership, demonstrated business operations and development track record, and ability to manage a high-performance, multi-national team across a spectrum of complex customer organizations.

• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and grow a highly technical startup-like business delivering advanced national security and civil technology capabilities and services, systems engineering and integration expertise, and trusted, objective, and unbiased acquisition support to military and government customers.

• Strong business acumen, with demonstrated performance in managing financial outcomes, consistent real portfolio growth, direct and indirect costs, and fee structures for government, international and commercial sales models. Experience meeting cost, schedule, performance, and quality for complex national security and/or civil government customers.

• Demonstrated ability to define a strategy, develop and implement investment plans aligned with the strategy, and articulate a vision to your team, partners and customers.

• Proven leadership ability to recruit, manage, and develop a top quality team with a commitment to enhancing Inclusion and Diversity. Demonstrated success leading both profit and loss (P&L) and functional organization activities (finance, human resources, communications, etc.)

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain substantive rapport with a diverse range of senior Australian and U.S. government officials and industry executives.

• Knowledge and familiarity with the Commonwealth of Australia’s broad-based system engineering challenges that require engineering and scientific research expertise across multiple disciplines and government service domains.

• Strong track record of leadership accountability, constructive engagement, strategic relationship building, and cross-organizational collaboration.

• Strong understanding of how the Commonwealth of Australia’s procurement enterprise works, including the acquisition and grants processes and qualification processes for procurement opportunities.

• Demonstrated ability to work with government, academia, and industry organizations and integrate efforts to achieve more impactful outcomes.

• Excellent communication skills with all levels of customers, partners, and internal staff.

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 10 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Australian Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) clearance and/or reciprocity with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) SECRET clearance.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.

• Eligible for Australian Negative Vetting Level 2 (NV2) and/or Positive Vetting (PV) clearance

• Australian citizenship or dual U.S-Australian citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading a P&L of $50M or greater in annual revenue. Experience in business scaling and strategic growth, including organic capability development, and mergers acquisitions for healthy inorganic growth.

• Broad understanding of the Commonwealth of Australia’s operations and acquisition communities such as the Australian Defence Force, Military Services, and Australian Signals Directorate.

• Familiarity with the concept and provisioning of USA FFRDC & non-for profits.

• Graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in the national security, engineering, aerospace, space and defense engineering, computer science, physical sciences, or mathematics field.

• Proven experience as a senior executive or officer in relevant government, military, industry or research enterprise.

• Appreciation of the legal framework relevant to working in the Australian Government and the National Security Community.

• Master of Business Administration or similar.

• Demonstrated leadership of projects that provide innovative interdisciplinary solutions leading to game-changing capabilities.

• Experience in public-facing roles requiring strategic communications and media engagement.

• Experience navigating complex export control, technology transfer and commercialization initiatives.

• Eligible for a TS/SCI clearance.

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

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This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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Work Location Type:

Onsite

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