TXCC - Mission Director, Mission Control and Service Integration (Director VI)

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Mission Director, Mission Control and Service Integration is the Deputy Chief's senior mission integrator for the down and in mission force of Texas Cyber Command. This role helps the Deputy Chief keep statewide cyber defense work moving with speed, clarity, discipline, shared awareness, and accountable follow through.

This role helps operationalize command intent through disciplined mission rhythm, operational governance, readiness visibility, cross component service integration, and executive support. The role strengthens mission assurance, operational resilience, and command level visibility across statewide cyber defense functions.

The Mission Director maintains the Mission Control rhythm, common operating picture, service integration view, readiness picture, action follow through, mission risk indicators, service dependency risk visibility, readiness degradation visibility, and command attention queue for SOC Platform and Shared Services, CIRU, DFL, RSOCs, VIRT, embedded support, vendors, federal partners, Texas Military Department support, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and other assigned stakeholders.

Mission Control is not a permission gate. When mission teams can act safely under command intent, applicable law, approved playbooks, agreements, and current priorities, they should move. This role helps teams keep moving, coordinate when needed, expose friction early, and bring material issues to the Deputy Chief before they slow the mission.

This position performs highly advanced managerial, mission integration, operational governance, mission assurance, and operational coordination work involving Mission Control, service integration, operational readiness, statewide cyber defense support, transition execution, and cross component coordination. Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for initiative and independent judgment.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

1. Maintains the Mission Control operating rhythm for the Deputy Chief, including routine operations syncs, service reviews, readiness reviews, transition reviews, incident support updates, and executive operational updates.

2. Maintains the common operating picture for down and in operations, including active incidents, watch posture, statewide protective action candidates, service status, SOC platform posture, CIRU activity, DFL service posture, CTIC injects, RSOC activity, VIRT readiness, augmentation support, transition milestones, indicators of mission risk, readiness degradation, service dependency risk, and issues requiring command attention.

3. Integrates governance, risk, policy, and executive priorities into operational routines, readiness measures, service reviews, practical metrics, and accountable execution without slowing first action.

4. Tracks material commitments, blockers, risks, dependencies, readiness gaps, service impacts, and follow through. The purpose is mission tempo, visibility, and closure, not administrative burden.

5. Supports action under command intent by helping teams understand current priorities, constraints, coordination needs, operational context, and unacceptable risk conditions so they can move without unnecessary routing.

6. Exposes friction across mission elements, including unclear assumptions, poor handoffs, resource gaps, tool limitations, service degradation, partner confusion, vendor issues, competing priorities, readiness degradation, and service dependency risk.

7. Prepares command issues for the Deputy Chief with facts, options, consequences, recommended path, and what needs to move now.

8. Supports incident operations by maintaining visibility, rhythm, action tracking, resource coordination, service impact awareness, and leadership updates. Incident command remains with the assigned incident lead.

9. Works with SOC Platform and Shared Services, CIRU, DFL, CTIC, RSOCs, VIRT, embedded support, approved vendors, federal partners, and other augmentation elements to maintain readiness, assigned task visibility, service integration, and shared awareness.

10. Supports the transition and buildout of TXCC operational capability by tracking milestones, service continuity concerns, risks, blockers, readiness impacts, and items needing command attention.

11. Strengthens mission assurance and operational resilience by connecting service status, readiness measures, dependency risk, exercise results, incident lessons, and operational improvement actions.

12. Ensures significant incidents, exercises, service failures, and transition events produce practical improvements to playbooks, detections, evidence procedures, training, partner guidance, readiness, metrics, and operating practice.

13. Maintains no surprises communication for issues that could affect public service continuity, statewide response, sensitive data, evidence quality, partner trust, operational tempo, or Chief attention.

14. Adapts and embodies TXCC culture of trust, transparency, disciplined initiative, and bold innovation. There is room for error in execution, but none for confusion or ethical lapses.

15. Performs other work-related duties as assigned.