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Expert Risk Mitigation Specialist

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Prescient Edge Federal

Tampa, FL (In Person)

Full-Time

Posted 1 week ago (Updated 2 days ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/23/2026

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Expert Risk Mitigation Specialist Prescient Edge Federal - 4.1 Tampa, FL Job Details Full-time 4 hours ago Benefits Health insurance Dental insurance Tuition reimbursement On-the-job training Vision insurance Retirement plan Qualifications Policy analysis
Full Job Description Job Description:
Prescient Edge is seeking an Expert Risk Mitigation Specialist to support a Federal Government client. Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.
Benefits:
At Prescient Edge , we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes: A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities. Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage. A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking. A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
Description:
The Risk Mitigation Specialist provides near real-time support to assess and mitigate risks and threats. This includes collecting and analyzing data sets to validate people, assets, utilities, infrastructure, and the information environment associated with
JTF-SREC
priorities. RM Specialists assess global risks and threats, supporting CI analytics for SOF and HUMINT operations as well as military and commercial supply chain activities.
Should perform tasks such as:
Collaborate with CI Analysts to present new or anticipated threats and related probabilities of risks. Conduct comprehensive Risk Assessments for proposed intelligence operations, new technologies, or collaborative partnerships to identify potential security and counterintelligence threats. Analyze foreign intelligence entity (FIE) threats, tactics, and targeting patterns to inform defensive measures. Perform vulnerability analyses of internal processes, operational plans, and technical systems to identify potential weaknesses an adversary could exploit. Interview personnel involved in security incidents or anomalies to determine the root cause, scope, and potential damage of a compromise. Design and recommend specific countermeasures—procedural, technical, or operational—to reduce identified risks to an acceptable level. Create and deliver tailored security, counterintelligence, and OPSEC (Operations Security) briefings for personnel and teams based on their specific roles or mission sets. Collaborate with legal, policy, and technical experts to ensure proposed mitigation strategies are effective, compliant, and feasible. Conduct periodic inspections and reviews of ongoing activities to ensure that emplaced risk mitigation measures are being adhered to. Monitor and report on compliance with agency and IC-wide security policies and directives. Track the remediation of identified vulnerabilities and policy deviations, ensuring that corrective actions are completed and effective. Review after-action reports from security incidents to identify systemic issues and recommend improvements to agency-wide policy and training. Serve as the primary security and risk advisor to leaders and managers of operational, technical, or analytic teams. Prepare and present formal risk assessments, findings, and recommendations to senior decision-making bodies and oversight committees. Liaise with counterparts in other IC agencies to deconflict activities and share best practices and threat information.
Job Requirements:
Desired experience: Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience in the Risk Mitigation career field with minimum of 10 years since 2015 within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent. Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques. Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher). Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) mitigation, including the performance of reviews, special analyses, and evaluations of business operations to develop and implement integrated mitigation strategies. Demonstrate in-depth analysis of FOCI-related operations, with the ability to coordinate multiple reports, generate concise executive summaries, and clearly articulate key findings to senior-leader decision makers. Demonstrates the ability to work independently and with minimal oversight while performing oversight functions, collecting security data from legal business entities, and conducting outreach engagements. Demonstrates the ability to review analytic products and detailed correspondence for cogent arguments, adherence to tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests the analytic rigor of FOCI studies and evaluations.
Education:
Master's degree in public policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or prior professional experience at the GS/GG-15 or commensurate level.
Security clearance:
Active TS/SCI and with the ability to obtain a CI Poly if needed.
Location:
HQ USSOCOM, MacDill AFB, FL.