Risk Management Advisor

Job Title:

Risk Management Advisor Job Category:
Intelligence Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Continental US*
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* The Opportunity:

As a Risk Management Advisor, you will facilitate and coordinate all aspects of enterprise risk management, operational overwatch, and threat mitigation in support of a United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Joint Task Force (JTF). This position directly supports critical mission sets by collecting, vetting, and analyzing complex data sets to assess and validate risks to personnel, physical assets, utilities, infrastructure, the information environment, and other vital SOCOM strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

As a Risk Management Advisor, you will be embedded with operational and staff elements to provide continuous risk assessments, threat tracking, and mitigation advisory services. Your in-depth knowledge of Counterintelligence (CI), Foreign Intelligence Entity (FIE) capabilities, and operational security as they apply to each unique operational event or tasking will allow you to seek out, identify, plan for, propose, integrate, and evaluate comprehensive risk management frameworks in support of Special Operations.

Your risk management-focused efforts include:

Collaborating with desk officers, operations planners, and key stakeholders to present newly identified or anticipated threat vectors, determining their probability and potential mission impact.

Conducting comprehensive Operational Risk Assessments (ORAs) for proposed or ongoing intelligence operations, emerging technologies, and collaborative multi-agency partnerships to identify and counter security vulnerabilities.

Analyzing foreign intelligence entity (FIE) threats, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and targeting patterns to devise and inform robust defensive measures.

Performing detailed vulnerability analyses of internal processes, operational plans, and technical systems to identify potential exposure points that adversaries could exploit.

Developing, updating, and implementing standardized operational risk management mitigation processes and protocols to protect sensitive capabilities.

Creating and delivering tailored Operational Risk Management briefings and training modules for personnel and operational teams based on their specific roles or mission environments.

Partnering with legal, policy, and technical subject matter experts to ensure proposed mitigation strategies are operationally effective, legally compliant, and feasible.

Conducting periodic inspections, compliance audits, and program reviews of ongoing activities to ensure that established risk mitigation measures are being strictly adhered to.

Monitoring and reporting on organizational compliance with agency, Department of War (DoW), and Intelligence Community (IC)-wide security policies and directives.

Tracking the remediation of identified vulnerabilities and policy deviations, ensuring that corrective action plans are completed, verified, and sustainable.

Reviewing after-action reports (AARs) from security incidents to identify systemic risks and recommending enhancements to agency-wide policy and training programs.

Serving as the primary risk advisor to operational team leaders, project managers, and performance managers, providing recommendations to adjust or pause operational timelines when risk thresholds are exceeded.

Preparing and presenting formal risk assessments, findings, and strategic mitigation plans to senior decision-making bodies, commanding generals, and oversight committees.

Liaising with counterparts across the Intelligence Community (IC) and interagency to deconflict activities,…