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　　Department Summary:

　　The VA Benefit Division (P860) supports the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and works specifically with the Benefit delivery organizations in the VA such as the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). Currently the Division supports several high profile, complex, and inter-related projects and tasks across VBA including benefits delivery organizations call Lines of Business (LOBs) and support organizations call Staff Offices. The benefits provided by VBA are Disability Compensation, Pension, Home Loan Guaranty, GI Bill Benefits, Life Insurance, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment, and Service Member Transition support. Staff office support includes the Office of Business Integration, Office of Financial Management, Performance Analyst and Integrity, and many others.

　　The VA Benefits Division is seeking a highly motivated leader to lead the VA Benefits Business Department. This Department Manager (DM) reports to the VA Benefits Division Managing Director and is expected to collaborate across MITRE, across CGEM and other FFRDCS, and MITRE Labs. The DM is responsible for the successful planning, development, and execution of a portion of the portfolio’s sponsor strategic outcomes and associated work program, as well as responsible for ensuring products delivered to sponsors from the department are of high technical quality, and ensures the hiring, development, and support of their workforce.

　　Roles and Responsibilities:

　　Plans, develops, and oversees a portion of the Division’s sponsor strategic outcomes

　　Supports the Director by providing specific sponsor/program knowledge and expertise

　　In partnership with the Director, Outcome Leads and PLs, develops close working relationships with sponsor counterparts

　　In partnership with Director and Outcome Leads, develops and shapes a work program to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes

　　Develops close working relationships with sponsor counterparts, serving as a trusted advisor

　　Develops and shapes a work program to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes

　　Accountable for strategic work‐shaping opportunities consistent with work program strategy

　　Collaborates with Divisions and Centers to leverage related activities, use of shared resources, and re‐use of existing products

　　Ensures the hiring, development, and shaping of the required skills, capabilities, and diversity of the department’s workforce through effective hiring, ongoing coaching and staff development, and monitoring of staff engagement

　　Effectively engages staff who fall short of expectations & initiates appropriate and timely actions to address poor performance

　　Ensures product technical quality for all work assigned to their department as identified in the work plan

　　Works with project leaders to ensure that all staff are appropriately assigned to projects and fully planned

　　Represents the needs and perspectives of staff to Division leadership

　　Advocates for department competencies and establishes new work within the Division

　　Provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership, and influence internally and externally across multiple stakeholders to move the mission outcome forward.

　　MITRE’s Good Growth Strategy, Vision and Mission: Effectively executes the strategy, vision, and mission

　　Work Program Definition and Oversight: Internalizes and execution of strategic outcomes

　　Multi-level Sponsor Engagement: Sponsor/stakeholder engagements or enterprise wide engagements

　　Develop Our People: Acquires, develops, coaches, leads, and enables an inclusive and diverse workforce

　　Collaboration and Communications: Effectively collaborates and communicates with sponsors and stakeholders or with internal stakeholders enterprise wide

　　The MITRE Brand: Ensures product or program quality and is aligned to MITRE Brand

　　Good Steward of Resources: Effectively manages the operations of a department (revenue, costs, people, etc.)

　　Basic Requirements:

　　Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

　　Working knowledge, familiarity with VBA benefits and services

　　Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships and work collaboratively across MITRE and across sponsors

　　Experience is developing cross enterprise outcomes and coordinating their implementation within government

　　Demonstrated technical and business leadership

　　Demonstrated ability to shape and drive high impact, high quality work programs

　　Experience working with senior sponsor leaders (SES and above)

　　Knowledge and understanding of VBA culture

　　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):

　　Suitability - VA

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

　　None

　　Work Location Type:

　　Onsite

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