Senior Chief of Staff

• Translate senior leader intent into clear actions, timelines, owners, and expected outcomes.
• Establish and maintain an executive operating rhythm, including staff meetings, decision forums, task reviews, and leadership engagement preparation.
• Track high-priority actions from assignment through closure, ensuring responses are accurate, timely, and aligned with leadership direction.
• Identify stalled actions, unclear ownership, or decision bottlenecks and recommend corrective action.

• Gather, assess, and synthesize input from multiple stakeholders to support executive decisions.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, read-ahead materials, information papers, decision packages, talking points, and meeting summaries.
• Identify risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and second-order effects before issues reach senior decision forums.
• Provide leadership with actionable recommendations rather than unfiltered information.

• Coordinate across programs, functional teams, technical experts, operations, finance, contracts, security, and customer-facing stakeholders as required.
• Ensure teams understand leadership priorities, deadlines, decision criteria, and required deliverables.
• Resolve alignment issues by clarifying intent, connecting the right stakeholders, and elevating unresolved concerns.
• Support cross-functional initiatives that require senior-level visibility, disciplined follow-through, and consistent communication.

• Develop clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications for senior leaders.
• Convert complex technical, operational, acquisition, policy, or program information into concise executive products.
• Maintain consistency between leadership messaging, organizational priorities, and external stakeholder engagement.
• Prepare leadership for internal reviews, customer meetings, conferences, governance forums, and senior-level engagements.

• Maintain visibility of leadership taskers, suspense items, commitments, meeting outcomes, and decision records.
• Recommend improvements to staff processes, battle rhythm, information flow, and leadership engagement preparation.
• Ensure executive products meet quality, accuracy, formatting, classification, and coordination standards before submission.
• Support governance forums by preparing agendas, capturing decisions, assigning follow-up actions, and monitoring completion.

• Monitor emerging risks that may affect executive priorities, organizational performance, stakeholder confidence, or mission execution.
• Distinguish between issues that can be resolved at the working level and issues requiring executive intervention.
• Provide concise escalation summaries that include context, impact, options, and recommended next steps.

• Experience supporting senior leaders, executive offices, program offices, command staff, or equivalent leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high visibility taskings with competing deadlines.
• Strong written communication skills, including experience developing executive-level briefings, summaries, staff packages, and decision materials.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear findings, risks, options, and recommendations.
• Working knowledge of staff coordination, governance processes, executive communications, and cross-functional action tracking.

• Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, national security, management, engineering, communications, policy, or a related field. Master's preferred
• 10 or more years of experience in executive staff support, program management, operations, strategy, defense, government, aerospace, technology, or another complex mission-driven environment.

• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks with tight deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for internal and external interactions.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and adapt to dynamic priorities.

• Active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility.
• U.S. citizenship, when required for access to classified U.S. government information.

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  Interesting Work:
  
  
  
  Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
  
  
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  Values:
  
  
  
  Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
  
  
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  100% Employee Owned:
  
  
  
  We have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
  
  
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  Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
  
  
  




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  Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
  
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  Flexible schedules
  
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  6% 401k match with immediate vesting up to $9k annually
  
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  Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
  
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  Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
  
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  Up to $10,000 in annual educational reimbursement
  
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  Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
  
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  Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
  




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  Track Record of Success:
  
  
  
  We have grown every year since our founding in 1993.
  
  

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com