Economic Security Specialist

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, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us. Department Summary: MITRE’s Treasury, Economics and Commerce (TEC) Division, within the Center for Government Enterprise Modernization (Treasury’s FFRDC operated by MITRE), supports multiple U.S government agencies in their missions to advance U.S. economic security and prosperity. Our varied work programs draw on many technical disciplines, such as systems engineering, data science, economic modeling, cost and acquisitions management, and strategic program management, among others. At the same time, we maintain a high degree of domain-specific knowledge relating to illicit finance, fraud, and sanctions, artificial intelligence, and financial technologies (like blockchain), strategic competition and global economics, financial regulation, financial inclusion, critical financial infrastructure, and cybersecurity. MITRE, as an operator of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), supports agencies across the U.S. government and their partners to develop and harness transformative capabilities that promote the public good. Roles and Responsibilities: TEC’s P813 Department, primarily supporting the U.S. Department of Treasury and its Bureaus and Offices, is seeking a highly-motivated

Economic Statecraft Specialist

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to serve as a member of the TEC team, to work across TEC, to work across the MITRE enterprise and with other FFRDCs operated by MITRE to support diverse sponsor-directed projects and MITRE-led applied research and development efforts aimed to advanced broad analytic capabilities and transformative capabilities for the economic security policy community. Demonstrated experience in government, working across and leading multiple stakeholders, experience in formulating and executing policy - domestic or international or both, in at least three policy domains, including but not limited to illicit finance and sanctions, strategic economic competition, supply chains, market influence or manipulation, international trade, complex beneficial ownership structures used by illicit actors, novel financial systems such as digital assets/DeFi, cyber threats and critical financial infrastructure, advanced digital assets/DeFi services or other associated key areas where economic tools by countries or adversaries/competitors are aimed to advance and influence foreign policy and economic priorities. Day to Day Responsibilities: The

Economic Security Specialist

will provide insightful leadership and problem solving for the U.S. Department of Treasury and its partners in collaboration with stakeholders across MITRE, the private sector, academia, and federal, state, and local sectors. Specific responsibilities will include: Lead and/or support diverse sponsor-directed work projects as an Economic Security Specialist and support MITRE-led applied research and development efforts aimed to advanced broad analytic capabilities and transformative capabilities for the economic security policy community Supporting proactive outreach to sponsors as an economic security specialist, focusing on developing new and novel work on research, analytics, and capability development Be able to operate with and interact with a diverse set of government sponsors and MITRE teams, applying experiences in government, the interagency, policy, or international efforts to define, track, and advance impactful analytic tools and transformative capabilities Coordinate pro-actively with other work programs across MITRE in support of collaborative interagency efforts Represent perspectives, authorities, responsibilities, and experiences of U.S. Department of Treasury to define strategic vision and direction and identify approaches to meaningfully and impactful accomplish complex whole of nation economic and financial outcomes Identify key applied research areas and challenges at TEC and across sponsors to contribute key insights and foster partner and collaboration opportunities across the FFRDC, MITRE, academia, private sector, and with the U.S. Department of Treasury and its partners Work with MITRE project and division leadership and identify the skills and competencies to further shape and align both current and future MITRE workforce and work programs Basic Qualifications: Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. Degree in Illicit Finance or Sanctions, Financial Markets, Engineering, Business, Economics, Information Systems, International Affairs/Policy, Cybersecurity, Management, or related disciplines to the missions and support missions of the U.S. Department of Treasury. Documented success in applying one or more of the following capabilities or skills in collaborative and complex environments:

Demonstrated ability to create an engagement plan or strategy/approach on a complex sponsor topic or issue, including understanding and identifying the priority or desired outcomes, challenges, and resources, and developing collaborative action plans toward achieving desired outcome(s) Project and Program Management Data-driven evidence building in informing policy analysis and decision making Demonstrated expertise in illicit finance and sanctions, to include AML/CFT regulations Familiarity with global trade and economic analysis Knowledge of international finance and payment systems Knowledge of Digital Assets Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across a large, complex organization

Ability to secure one or more Treasury Suitability clearances and up to and including TS/SCI This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with the financial intelligence enterprises Information Systems/Cybersecurity or system security in large complex systems Business Process or Systems Engineering / Improvement / Modeling Economic Modeling and/or Economic and Financial Analytics Business or Business Process Innovation and Transformation Strategic Planning and Management Cybersecurity, Data Analytics / Optimization This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None

Work Location Type: Onsite

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