Senior Project Management Specialist

MITRE Job Opportunity

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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.

• Lead project work streams 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, action and issue logs, decision logs, stakeholder engagement plans, deliverable trackers, and recurring status reporting mechanisms.
• Plan and facilitate grants management assessments, grant lifecycle process reviews, stakeholder interviews, data standards working sessions, and implementation planning discussions.
• Support the development, review, refinement, and publication of grants data standards across the grants lifecycle, including Pre-Award, Award, Post-Award, Payments, Post-Award Reporting, and Single Audit tranches.
• Conduct research and analysis of relevant grants policies, statutory and regulatory requirements, 2 CFR requirements, executive orders, grants forms, information collections, and grants-related system documentation.
• Analyze grants business processes, data collections, forms, and reporting requirements to identify opportunities for consolidation, streamlining, standardization, and improved government wide grants reporting efficiency.
• Translate complex grants policy, data standards, information collection, and implementation requirements into concise briefings, implementation plans, stakeholder materials, decision papers, and actionable recommendations.
• Support stakeholder engagement with U.S. grant-making agencies, grants management solution and service providers, MITRE partners, and other government, academic, industry, and public stakeholders across the grants management ecosystem.
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining alignment with sponsor objectives, MITRE quality standards, FFRDC objectivity, project scope, and expected outcomes.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; 3 years of related experience with a Master's degree; a PhD with relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Project Management Professional certification preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects or work streams with cross-functional teams, multiple stakeholders, and defined scope, schedule, performance, and quality expectations.
• Demonstrated experience with grants management across the grant lifecycle, including planning, award administration, monitoring, reporting, closeout, 2 CFR, grants compliance, internal controls, audit readiness, recipient and subrecipient monitoring, corrective action tracking, and program stewardship.
• Experience supporting grants policy, grants data standards, grants systems, financial assistance programs, federal reporting, or related federal program management activities.
• Ability to coordinate with policy, program, data, technical, systems engineering, and stakeholder engagement teams to support complex federal grants management initiatives.
• Ability to develop clear briefings, implementation guidance, stakeholder materials, technical documentation, and recommendations for both functional and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, adapt to evolving sponsor needs, and drive tasks to completion in a time-sensitive, multi-stakeholder…