Senior Project Management Specialist

The MITRE Corporation • Milford Mill, MD

2d • $113,600 - $170,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional certification preferred.
• 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.
• Additional credentials such as Certified Grants Management Specialist, PMI-RMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or related program/project management certification.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 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.

Benefits

• competitive benefits
• exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth
• culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior