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Global Security and Risk Management, a super division within MITRE’s Center for Operations, Outreach and Legal (COOL), is committed to supporting MITRE by partnering with our customers to manage security and all hazard risks, reduce vulnerabilities, and advance MITRE’s mission by aligning solutions with business needs to deliver value. We are a trusted advisor and recognized leader in anticipating and responding to evolving security risks in a global environment.

The Global Security and Risk Management division seeks a Director, Enterprise Risk Management to lead the Enterprise Risk Management division. The successful candidate will report to the Director, Global Security and Risk Management and work closely with MITRE leadership to build a strong culture of risk management and ensure that the understanding and management of risk is central to all MITRE’s strategic decisions. The Director will also provide thought leadership on risk issues to a wide range of stakeholders and develop MITRE’s risk management long-term strategy and operating plan.

Primary Responsibilities

Director, Enterprise Risk Management responsibilities are:

• Ensure that the principal risks facing MITRE are identified, assessed, and communicated to the MITRE Board of Trustees and wider MITRE Leadership

• Support the Board of Trustees and MITRE leadership to review its risk appetite and drive continuous improvement in its operational risk management

• Lead a Risk Council comprising a set of multifunctional representatives to identify existing and emerging risks and develop custom models to quantify risks and mitigate potential impacts to the organization

• Verify and validate risk tolerance and ensure mitigation efforts are consistent with the company’s direction

• Lead the Insider Threat Program and its associated functions

• Direct a risk management program which includes corporate investigations, counterintelligence, insider threat, workplace violence prevention, program protection, business risk intelligence, travel intelligence, protective intelligence, OPSEC, corporate risk and insurance, international security, travel risk management, and incident management

• Promote organization wide understanding of risk and effective risk management strategies

• Contribute to key decision-making meetings and present analyses and recommendations

• Perform risk assessments and provide solutions for risk response strategies

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters in related field and/or advanced certificate in Chief Risk Officer studies

• At least 15 years of relevant experience with five or more years of direct people management experience

• Certification in risk-related field accredited by an international organization

• 5+ years of enterprise risk management experience within a highly matrixed environment

• Must have five or more years’ experience within key direct risk management programs to include corporate investigations, counterintelligence, insider threat, program protection, international security and travel risk management

• Demonstrated experience as an Insider Threat Program Senior Official

• Demonstrated experience with managing intelligence processes and solutions

• Deep understanding of risk management frameworks, conducting risk assessments and controls mapping

• Experience assessing enterprise business continuity and resiliency programs

• Executive and Board level reporting and presentation experience

• Comfort within a fast-paced environment with the ability to adapt as needed

• Intellectually curious with excellent problem-solving abilities and ability to dissect issues and quickly comprehend new concerns

• Problem-solving skills in a cross functional and matrix environment

• Demonstrated superior project management and organizational skills with high attention to detail

Leadership Competencies and Cultural Attributes

A successful candidate possesses the highest level of integrity and a strong commitment to the public interest. The Director will have experience in leading ERM programs with oversight responsibilities for security, operational, and compliance risks. The Director of Enterprise Risk Management will devise a strategy and lead a successful team in a complex environment.

MITRE is committed to excellence in leadership and expects all leaders to demonstrate the following Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders-and desired outcomes-in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

MITRE is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that is grounded in the following

Cultural Attributes:

• SPEED: We move quickly to capture new and fleeting opportunities and deliver solutions when they are most relevant. We also conduct our internal operations with urgency, decisiveness, and streamlined approaches.

• RISK-TAKING: We recognize that leading change requires taking risks, and we do things that are considered bold, because they are the right things to do.

• ADAPTABILITY: We proactively adapt to the changing environment, seeking out the hardest problems because we are motivated by the good that will come from them. We show a new willingness to change our practices and behaviors.

• COLLABORATION: Innovation is at the intersection of inclusion and diversity. To unlock our collective potential, we collaborate across our diverse populations, projects, and teams.

• GRACE AND RESPECT: We operate in an environment where the stakes are high as we take on some of the biggest public interest problems facing society. As we move with speed and take risks, it is imperative that we offer each other grace and respect.

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

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

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