Department Manager Health Research and Advancement

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Department Summary

MITRE’s Health FFRDC is seeking a Department Manager for Health Research and Advancement, within the Health Research, Innovation, and Data Science Division, to lead and manage a portfolio of work programs with the two critical sponsors: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). In this role, the Department Manager will oversee work programs with a focus on biomedical research, clinical research, bioinformatics and health technologies. This may involve contributing to policy implementation, enterprise strategy and concept curation with sponsors. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding and experience supporting NIH and ARPA-H and has professional networks across both Federal Health and agency operations communities. The Department Manager will direct MITRE resources to advance mission-driven innovation focusing on the sponsor’s most pressing challenges.

The Department Manager for the Health Research and Advancement Department is accountable to the Managing Director of the Health Research, Innovation, and Data Science Division for the successful planning, development, and execution of a portion of the Division’s sponsor strategic outcomes and associated Federal Health work programs, 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. The Department Manager is an integral part of the Division and Center for Transforming Health leadership team contributing to cross-Federal collaboration, information sharing, and the development of innovative solutions that are applicable to multiple sponsors.

The Department Manager is a thought leader who brings a proven track record of leading teams and programs, execution of health work programs and development of pipeline of opportunities across NIH and ARPA-H. This position requires a candidate with a deep understanding and recent knowledge of the NIH's enterprise and IC-specific ecosystems and ARPA-H programs, to include research programs, initiatives and priorities. The ideal candidate should also have experience achieving business development goals, managing program budgets with strong financial acumen, overseeing the development of sponsor deliverables of high technical quality, building strong relationships with internal and external executive leaders, and working collaboratively with colleagues in a matrixed organizational environment.

Roles and responsibilities

Strategic planning and execution

• Plan, develop, and oversee NIH and ARPA-H sponsor strategic outcomes
• Support the Director on building and maturing strategic relationship with strategic partners to provide subject matter expertise to the department’s work program and sponsor strategic outcomes
  
  

Growth strategy

• In partnership with Director, develop and shape work programs to achieve specific sponsor strategic outcomes and manage a pipeline of business development opportunities, tracking progress and identifying areas for growth
• In partnership with the Department Chief Engineer, ensure product technical quality for all work assigned to their department as identified in the work plan
  
  

Domain expertise

• Provide technical domain-specific knowledge, leadership, and influence internally and externally across multiple stakeholders to move the mission outcome forward
• Broad knowledge of biomedical research, clinical research, bioinformatics and health technologies
• Expertise and experience working within NIH and across its IC’s
  
  

Financial management

• Manage the department budget in compliance with policies to support strategic decision-making at the department level
• Provide oversight and guidance for project budgets and understanding of financial metrics
  
  

Stakeholder and partner engagement

• In partnership with the Director, Senior Advisors, Program Managers, and Group Leads, develop close working relationships with sponsor counterparts and serve as a trusted advisor
• Collaborate with other Divisions and Centers to leverage related activities, use of shared resources, and re-use of existing products
  
  

Leadership and team management

• Work with project leaders to ensure that all staff are appropriately assigned to projects and fully planned
• Represent the needs and perspectives of staff to Division leadership
• Advocate for department competencies and establishes new work within the Division
• Ensure 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 and initiate appropriate and timely actions to address poor performance
• Lead staff management including recruiting, establishing performance goals and appraising performance, and providing opportunities for career development
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in biomedical research, clinical research, bioinformatics and health technologies
• Demonstrated leadership experience working with Federal health organizations, research, industry or academic partners
• Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships and work collaboratively across business lines and sponsor organizations
• Demonstrated ability to shape and drive high impact, high quality sponsor work programs
• Demonstrated experience with and success in developing, coaching, and leading people
• Demonstrated experience with and success in developing and executing a mission-focused strategy
• Evidence of strong project management skills
• Demonstrated experience strengthening relationships through communication and collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders and decision makers
  
  

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

None

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

Suitability - HHS

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$182,000 - $227,500 - $273,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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