Senior Project Management Specialist

Department Summary

The Department Summary section contains MITRE Enterprise Program and Risk Management thought leaders. The department comprises highly qualified and experienced staff proficient in various program and risk management skills.

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, 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 grant 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 governmentwide 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 workstreams 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 environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master’s degree preferred in public administration, public policy, business administration, finance, accounting, economics, data analytics, program management, grants management, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience supporting federal grants, financial assistance, cooperative agreements, compliance, internal controls, oversight, grants modernization, or related grant program operations.
• Experience working with federal sponsors, FFRDCs, or government advisory environments where independence, objectivity, and public interest outcomes are central to delivery.
• Experience supporting grants portfolio analysis, process improvement, financial reporting, fraud/waste/abuse risk indicators, evidence-building, program evaluation, or governmentwide reporting initiatives.
• Experience with and/or knowledge of the GREAT Act, Grants Management Business Standards, and governmentwide data standardization initiatives.
• Experience with requirements analysis, data architecture, business process modeling, system interfaces, implementation planning, or technical documentation a plus.