Risk Mitigation Specialist

Risk Mitigation Specialist / Officer

Amentum is seeking highly motivated, self-starting Risk Mitigation Specialist / Officer. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Ability to maintain a Top Secret-SCI clearance.

Responsibilities include :

• Prepare, implement, and oversee routine to moderately complex RMSs addressing risk indicators, ensuring each meet prescribed quality standards and contain the appropriate focus, depth, and breadth of information.
• Ensure RMSs adhere to applicable internal style guides prior to internal and external dissemination.
• Actively manage and oversee a portfolio of companies operating under mitigation.
• Provide technical direction and feedback to Government and Contractor staff, other internal parties, and external parties related to business and security risks, specific mitigation measures available, unmitigated residual risks, and related processes and procedures.
• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to less experienced RMOs.
• Conduct peer reviews of RMSs drafted by less experienced RMOs as directed.
• Identify areas for improvement, determine the appropriate course of action addressing the areas for leadership's consideration, and implement solutions.
• Conduct workload management tasks by providing reasonable and appropriate suspense dates based on documented case prioritization related to timing, monitoring completion status, ensuring suspense dates are met, and realigning work, as needed.
• Manage competing priorities in those circumstances where current staff is not available to meet customer requirements.
• Actively monitor individual metrics against established key performance indicators (KPIs) and prepare the timely dissemination of individual and team performance metrics to supervisors on a recurring basis as requested.
• Respond to requests for information from internal and external Government customers.
• Participate in and brief at conferences and meetings with internal and external customers on matters related to the risk management mission.
• Conduct maintenance of existing implemented strategies (i.e., supplements, Outside Directors / Proxy Holders).
• Conduct workload management tasks and written products by providing reasonable and appropriate suspense dates based on established key performance indicators, documented case prioritization related to timing, monitoring completion status, ensuring suspense dates are met, quality requirements, and realigning work.
• Conduct reviews of DCSA all-source products, as well as review open-source research, company submitted materials, and Government databases, aimed at U.S. and foreign companies and affiliated parties while producing a Risk Management Strategy (RMS) and Source Packages (SPs).
• Some locations may require local travel within the U.S.
• Working with teams and independently required.

Requirements :

Preferred :

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands :

This is an in-office position, with no unusual hazards, occasional lifting up to 20-30 lbs., constant sitting while using a computer, constant use of sight abilities while reviewing documents, constant use of speech / hearing abilities to communicate, constant mental alertness, must possess planning / organizing skills, and must be able to work under deadlines.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. Amentum's hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, ancestry, religion, color, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.