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The Risk Management & Analysis (RMA) Department, part of MITRE’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Division, focuses on identifying and mitigating threats to the company’s critical resources. These threats, posed by foreign adversaries, malign actors, and emerging conditions, can impact MITRE’s missions, relationships, contracts, and business pursuits within the U.S. government and global markets. The Strategic Program Protection (SP2) Group within RMA safeguards MITRE’s most critical and sensitive work, ensuring the delivery of uncompromised solutions for the nation’s most pressing challenges.

Position Description:

The Program Protection Lead within SP2 will apply multidisciplinary approaches to analyze MITRE operations and programs for criticality. This role involves assessing threats and vulnerabilities, characterizing risk for business leaders, and developing cost-effective countermeasures to reduce risk at corporate, program, and project levels. The Program Protection Lead will collaborate with diverse stakeholders across the company and the broader RMA team, including risk intelligence, insider threat, corporate security, and business leaders, to assess and mitigate threats to MITRE projects, staff, and information as an integrated element of MITRE’s ERM program.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Strategic Advisory and Coordination:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the ERM management team and business leaders, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and risk tolerance.

• Coordinate with multidisciplinary stakeholders to assess and mitigate threats to MITRE projects, staff, and information.

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation:

• Lead efforts to analyze MITRE operations and programs for criticality, assessing threats and vulnerabilities.

• Develop and implement cost-effective countermeasures to reduce risk at corporate, program, and project levels.

• Prepare and deliver tailored counterintelligence (CI) awareness briefings to promote a culture of proactive threat detection and prevention.

• Program Protection and Security Planning:

• Develop and execute comprehensive CI, operations security (OPSEC), and program protection plans.

• Ensure plans are agile, responsive, and cost-effective for both Sponsor and MITRE-funded initiatives.

• Integrate program protection activities into MITRE’s broader ERM program.

• Technical Expertise and Innovation:

• Design and deploy actionable CI and risk management solutions to address complex and nuanced threats identified through investigations and threat detection initiatives.

• Apply deep technical knowledge in areas such as intelligence analysis, counterintelligence operations, risk management, program protection planning, or industrial security:

• Compliance and Security Standards:

• Apply knowledge of the NISPOM to effectively integrate risk management activities into MITRE’s classified work program.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years with a Master’s degree; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Multidisciplinary background with deep technical knowledge and experience in at least two of the following areas: intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, risk management, program protection planning, or industrial security:

• Intelligence Analysis: Conducting data and intelligence research, develop analytical reports, and deliver briefings.

• Counterintelligence: Utilizing investigative or analytical tradecraft to counter Foreign Intelligence Entities.

• Risk Management: Applying risk management principles at project, program, or enterprise levels.

• Program Protection Planning: Assessing and mitigating security risks across project lifecycles.

• Industrial Security: Applying knowledge of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) and managing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and in writing.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging technical tools and software platforms to optimize collaboration and effectiveness.

• Intellectually curious with excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to dissect issues quickly to characterize emerging concerns, especially in a cross-functional and matrixed environment.

• Excellent strategic relationship-building skills.

• Working knowledge of the NISPOM.

• Active Top-Secret Clearance with the eligibility for TS/SCI clearance.

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Security Management, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Experience working within an FFRDC, UARC, or similar R&D environment.

• Multi-disciplinary background with deep technical knowledge and experience in at least three of the following: intelligence analysis, counterintelligence operations, risk management, program protection planning, or industrial security.

• Demonstrated knowledge of research security programs as required under National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33), including understanding policies and practices to protect research integrity and mitigate risks associated with foreign influence and interference.

• Active TS/SCI clearance.

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

Secret

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

Top Secret/SCI

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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