Principal Director â Special Projects Directorate
Principal Director â Special Projects Directorate
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Job Description
The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nations space programs solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space delivering innovative solutions that span satellite launch ground and cyber systems for defense civil and commercial customers. When you join our team youll be part of a special collection of problem solvers thought leaders and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.
The National Systems Group serves as the technical advisor to the Intelligence Community and its mission partners involved in the collection and distribution of national and tactical intelligence including electronics programs advanced technologies ground and communications imagery programs and systems engineering and launch.
The National Intelligence Division is looking for the new Principal Director for their Special Projects Directorate. The Principal Director leads Aerospaces support to a major U.S. Government agency including directing inhouse technical staff arranging and managing technical reachback capabilities interfacing with government customers and oversight of the directorates contracting status and performance. The selected candidate will provide management oversight and orchestrate technical leadership for acquisition development research and operations support efforts spanning multiple customer lines of effort. The selected candidate will also execute line management functions including staffing mentoring and strategic planning across the directorates portfolio. The Principal Director will be the face of Aerospace to our customers at this agency and will need to demonstrate exemplary written and verbal communication skills as well as exercise sound technical and management judgment. This position is a direct report to the National Intelligence Divisions General Manager and includes corporate leadership responsibilities and assignments.
Work Model
This fulltime position is based in Chantilly VA and requires 100% onsite work.
What Youll Be Doing
- Establishing strategic direction and objectives to the Special Projects Directorate consistent with corporate goals customer needs and assigned functions and clearly communicate expectations to staff
- Leading the directorates development discovery and retention of staff talent
- Working closely with government technical leaders to identify challenges and provide timely relevant and highquality solutions
- Working with government contracts personnel to ensure timely satisfaction of contractual deliveries and requirements
- Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of program information to senior Aerospace and customer leaders
- Maintaining understanding of current and future customer needs and applying inhouse and reachback support to best satisfy these needs
- Encouraging and curating new ideas tools skills processes and creative thinking to sustain and expand directorate capabilities spanning concept design through development deployment and operations
- Managing technical and business functions on corporate unclassified networks and customer classified networks
What You Need to be Successful
Minimum Requirements for the Principal Director
- Bachelors or advanced degree in a STEM field or relevant technical discipline.
- 13 or more years of progressively responsible applicable experience in systems engineering program management or other relevant field
- Previous personnel management experience and the ability to perform resource planning staffing mentoring performance assessments and other personnel management functions
- Recognized ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of corporate staff government customers and contractors
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- A current TS/SCI security clearance with SSBI issued by the US government and a successfully adjudicated counterintelligence polygraph. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance
- Ability to occasionally travel within the continental United States (1020% of time)
How You Can Stand Out
It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:
- Prior experience managing customerfacing teams including developing organizational strategy and goals managing leaders or senior staff recruitment performance management development of talent
- Crossfunctional collaboration and leadership skills with the ability to make critical decisions and influence others
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic business development plan
- Demonstrated contract management skills including financial performance tracking and ensuring required deliverables
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic exciting environment with rapidly evolving priorities
- The successful adjudication of a fullscope polygraph exam at least once in the candidates professional career
- An adjudicated counterintelligence polygraph or fullscope polygraph within the last 5 years
Leadership Competencies
Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee regardless of level and role can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders we want individuals who:
- Operate Strategically
- Lead Change
- Engage with Impact
- Foster Innovation
- Deliver Results
Ways We Reward Our Employees
During your interview process our team will provide details of our industryleading benefits.
Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type. A few highlights include:
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation
- Standard and alternate work schedules including telework options
- 401(k) Plan Employees receive a total companypaid benefit of 8% 10% or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
- Flexible spending accounts
- Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
- Relocation assistance
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- Education assistance programs
- A work environment built on teamwork flexibility and respect
We are all unique from various backgrounds and all walks of life yet one thing bonds all of us to each otherthe belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.
Equal Opportunity Commitment
The Aerospace Corporation is an equalopportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race age sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression colorreligiongeneticinformation marital status ancestry national origin protected veteran status physical disability medical condition mental disability or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If youre an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by emailat .You can also reviewKnow Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
