IC Strategic Resource Lead

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE is seeking a Strategic Resource Lead in the Influence and Integration Department to provide expert resourcing and budgeting guidance to our Government sponsor. You will plan, allocate, and analyze resources to support critical missions, coordinating with senior intelligence officials and ensuring funding aligns with priorities.

Qualified candidates will have TS/SCI with poly, extensive PPBE/IPPBE experience, and a track record of rigorous budget analysis and executive writing.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience: 8 years with a Bachelor's degree; 6 years with a Master's; 3 years with a PhD.
• Active Top Secret/SCI with Poly clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
• On-site requirement: 5 days a week on-site.
• Experience with CBJB, NIP, or MIP.
• Experience with PPBE or IPPBE cycles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analysis results and recommendations for budget documents and inquiries.
• Assess baselines to ensure alignment with directorate needs.
• Interpret policy changes and language impacts on resources.
• Review budget exhibits to inform resource strategy.
• Leverage IT systems to monitor current budget allocations.
• Provide unbiased recommendations to senior government officials.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Data Science/Analytics or related field

Strong professional writing and editing abilities

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

The Influence and Integration Department advances ODNI’s enterprise priorities by translating policy intent into integrated, executable approaches across the Intelligence Community. The department supports ODNI’s policy and mission integration efforts by shaping policy frameworks, strengthening governance and oversight, and guiding capability development that connects strategic direction to mission execution. Through disciplined analysis, enterprise coordination, and sustained partnership, the department aligns policy, mission priorities, and analytic leadership to enable coherent implementation of modernization initiatives and reinforce ODNI’s role as the strategic leader of the IC.

Roles & Responsibilities

The Influence and Integration Department seeks a Strategic Resource Lead to provide expert and strategic resourcing advice to our Government sponsor in the planning and oversight of the sponsor’s budget formulation and execution, proposing allocation of resources between competing demands, and collaborating with senior intelligence officials to ensure critical mission requirements are funded and properly executed. The sponsor requires trusted advisors to perform strategic resource analysis and provide unbiased and independent recommendations on programming resources to achieve planned objectives.

Responsibilities Include:

• Deliver analysis results and recommendations within these products: Congressional Budget Justification Book and supporting analyses, responses to Congressional inquiries, directed actions, and budget marks, performance-based budgeting artifacts, budget execution and trend reporting/analyses, contract analyses, policy analyses, and programmatic budget support and analyses.
• Provide analysis and assessment of technical and programmatic baselines to ensure alignment with directorate needs/requirements implementation.
• The assessment of policy changes and/or technology insertion and their effect on the budget request.
• Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources.
• Review, analyze, and summarize budget exhibits to inform resource strategy.
• Leverage existing IT systems to collect, monitor, and analyze current budget allocations to inform resource strategy.
• Provide clear, concise, and unbiased recommendations to senior government officials.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years with a Master's degree; or 3 years with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience with the Congressional Budget Justification Book (CBJB), the National Intelligence Programs (NIP), or Military Intelligence Programs (MIP).
• Experience with the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) cycle or the Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (IPPBE) cycle.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI w/Poly U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• Due to the lengthy clearance process and our urgent need, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with polygraph cannot be considered for this opening.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Data Science/Analytics or related field.
• Experience with government budget systems and processes.
• Experience with analysis conducted using Microsoft Excel.
• Familiarity with concepts covered in the Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) or the Certified Government Finance Manager (CGFM) certifications.
• Strong professional writing and editing abilities.
• Ability to lead a financial-related study, conduct research, collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, and communicate results for decision makers.
• Ability to interact with senior level government officials in a fast-paced environment.

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

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

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Salary compensation range and midpoint

$147,200 - $184,000 - $220,800 Annual

Work Location Type

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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