Senior Project Management Specialist

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Department Summary:

L582 contains MITRE Enterprise Program and Risk Management thought leaders. The department is composed of recognized subject matter experts, who are proficient in a suite of program and risk management skills including: leading people, project communications, scope management employing Agile, establishing program metrics, developing schedules, managing supply chain risk, and more. The Enterprise Program & Risk Management department provides support across a wide range of MITRE portfolios, employing ~ 50 highly qualified and experienced staff.

Job Description:

• Lead project workstreams and coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality analytical, technical, and project management support for government sponsors.
• Develop and maintain project charters, integrated schedules, work breakdown structures, risk registers, action and issue logs, decision logs, and recurring status reporting mechanisms.
• Plan and facilitate supply chain risk assessments, dependency mapping, vulnerability analysis, scenario analysis, tabletop exercises, and mitigation planning sessions.
• Translate complex supply chain and risk information into concise briefings, implementation plans, policy options, and actionable recommendations.
• Apply project management best practices consistent with PMP principles, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, risk, stakeholder, and change management.
• Partner with analysts, economists, data scientists, systems engineers, acquisition specialists, cybersecurity experts, and policy subject matter experts to integrate technical insights into sponsor deliverables.
• Identify, track, and report key performance indicators and key risk indicators that inform sponsor decisions and improve visibility into supply chain resilience.
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining alignment with sponsor objectives, MITRE quality standards, FFRDC objectivity, and expected project outcomes.
• Support relationship building across MITRE and with government, academic, industry, and other stakeholders in the supply chain and risk management ecosystem.
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; 3 years and a Master's degree; a PhD with relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects or workstreams with cross-functional teams, multiple stakeholders, and defined scope, schedule, performance, and quality expectations.
• Experience with supply chain risk management, enterprise risk management, supplier risk, logistics risk, critical infrastructure risk, acquisition risk, or related risk assessment activities.
• Ability to support the design, execution, and communication of risk assessments that inform decision-making, mitigation priorities, and operational execution.
• Experience developing project plans, schedules, risk registers, mitigation plans, decision support products, and sponsor-facing briefings.
• Ability to communicate and synthesize complex requirements to enable policy, organizational, technical, and programmatic decision-making.
• A cross-functional team player with the ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate stakeholders, and drive tasks to completion under time-sensitive conditions.
• Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or other sponsor requirements, as applicable.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree preferred in supply chain management, engineering, business administration, economics, data analytics, public policy, national security, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience supporting supply chain risk management, critical infrastructure resilience, economic security, trade, acquisition, logistics, mission assurance, or related risk management efforts.
• Experience working with federal sponsors, FFRDCs, or government advisory environments where independence, objectivity, and public interest outcomes are central to delivery.
• Experience applying structured risk methodologies, maturity models, risk scoring frameworks, dependency mapping, business impact analysis, or continuity and resilience planning.
• Experience using data analytics or visualization tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, R, Palantir, or equivalent platforms to support risk-informed decisions.
• Familiarity with supplier due diligence, vendor risk management, cyber supply chain risk, acquisition policy, industrial base analysis, trade policy, or international supply chain issues.
• Additional credentials such as PMI-RMP, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Lean Six Sigma, or Agile certification.
  
  

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):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$113,600 - $142,000 - $170,400 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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