Surveillance & Navigation Architecture Performance Department Director

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospaces strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs customers and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of spaceenabled mission effects.

The Surveillance and Navigation Architectures Performance Department (SNAPD) aspires to be the premier force advising the evolution of national security and civil space enterprises leveraging our modeling and simulation expertise to evaluate architecture performance. SNAPD supports our customers in requirements definition/verification analysesofalternatives (AoA) and endtoend performance evaluations of customer spacebased architectures across various mission areas. We are seeking a Department Director who will lead the department staff coordinating across customers and collaborate on multidisciplinary analyses that ensure mission success for current and future missions.

Work Model:

This fulltime position requires 100% onsite work in Chantilly VA El Segundo CA or Colorado Springs CO.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead the development of MS&A capabilities and products to support recommendations for research development and acquisition decisions of legacy and emerging spacebased architectures.

• Fostering a center of excellence for the supporting the following mission areas: geospatial intelligence signals intelligence space surveillance positioning navigation and timing (PNT) systems space protection and communications/ground infrastructure supporting defense intelligence and civil capabilities.

• Recruiting onboarding and developing the department management team and senior staff through formal and informal performance management evaluation mentoring and coaching across a national organization.

• Building and maintaining a strong base of customers and collaborators for the department through effective working relationships with colleagues government customers teammates.

• Creating an organizational culture that promotes innovation developing and maintaining relationships with peer organizations creating and leading teams of multidisciplinary analysts.

• Coordinating complex technical tasks among customers managing resources to efficiently staff and execute projects and ensuring quality and accuracy of work products.

• Recruiting onboarding and developing staff through formal and informal performance management evaluation mentoring and coaching across a national organization.

• Working closely with the broader subdivision leadership team to cultivate an effective efficient and cohesive national organization.

• Monitoring directing and improving the organizations processes functions compliance and safety awareness.

What You Need to be a Successful Associated Director:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in STEM or related discipline.

• A minimum of 10 years of applicable professional experience leading technical teams and coordinating complex modeling and analysis tasks.

• Demonstrated strength in modeling simulation and analysis for architecture evaluations

• The ability to communicate effectively with management program offices customers contractors department staff and colleagues is essential.

• This position requires a current and active TS/SCI clearance which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Masters or PhD degree in related STEM discipline.

• Current active TS/SCI clearance.

• Leadership experience in a customerfacing organization.

• Knowledge across Intelligence Community or U.S. Department of Defense business practices acquisition policies or space mission portfolios

• A history of navigating collaborations between technical experts across multiple fields

• Prior management or leadership experience in hiring mentoring training or development of personnel

• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior staff

• Experience in identifying prioritizing and resolving technical and/or personnel issues.