Industry Partnerships Liaison

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a diverse and dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.  

The Enterprise Integration Solutions Office guides the solution of cross-agency, multi-mission capability orchestration problems by building and leveraging integration expertise throughout the corporation. We build agile project teams who collaborate across disciplines, customers, international partners, and industry in support of national outcomes.  

Aerospace will need to build coalitions across the enterprise in order to fulfill its nationally chartered mission of solving the hardest problems for the nation’s space enterprise. We are seeking an Industry Partnerships Liaison (Project Leader – Technical Project Management) to lead our efforts to foster the growth of successful strategic partnerships across industry. The Industry Partnerships Liaison will be responsible for developing and maintaining the partnerships between Aerospace and others that will underpin those coalitions to drive successful enterprise integration outcomes in the national interest. 

Work Model: 

This full-time position supports a hybrid work model with onsite presence in Crystal City, VA, Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, or El Segundo CA. 

What You’ll Be Doing   

• Identify meaningful collaboration opportunities to enable the advancement of national enterprise integration imperatives 

• Foster and maintain strategic relationships with potential industry partners and stakeholders 

• Work with leadership and general counsel to define and negotiate formal partnership terms with prospective partners 

• Represent Aerospace core competencies and foster tight connections and trust across internal and external technical teams 

• Coordinate and execute meetings, technical exchanges, and forums with industry on behalf of Aerospace with the goal of connecting the enterprise in the national interest 

• Manage and coordinate our communications with partners to ensure consistent and equitable messaging to all parties 

• Maintain a directory of external connections for projects and contact with counterparts to support their future use 

• Mentor and coach team members in how to successfully engage in productive partnerships with external organizations 

• Frequent travel to support project efforts 

What You Need to be a Successful Industry Partnerships Liaison 

• Active Top Secret Clearance 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and 7 or more years of relevant professional experience 

• Experience with establishing and coordinating high-impact teams across multiple organizations 

• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt quickly to change, triage and prioritize competing priorities, and demonstrate initiative under pressure 

• Experience leading trade associations and managing relationships with senior executives throughout the space industry  

• Experience with a wide range of contract mechanisms to enable strategic partnerships throughout an organization 

• Ability to manage the coordination and execution of a robust meeting, technical exchange, or event 

• Highly skilled public speaker with the ability to articulate a complex mission to a wide-ranging audience 

How You Can Stand Out   

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

• Active SAP Clearance 

• Fluency in multiple languages  

• Experience leading successful industry engagement activities and commercialization efforts 

• Master’s degree and 9 or more years of relevant professional experience, including experience in developing productive strategic partnerships across industry and government 

• A strong professional network that extends across a wide portion of the public and private sectors