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    Senior Economist with Security Clearance - McLean, United States - MITRE Corporation

    MITRE Corporation
    MITRE Corporation McLean, United States

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    Department Summary:

    The MITRE Corporation's Cost & Business Analytics Department is seeking an economist to support multiple projects solving our customers' most critical economic challenges.

    This department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests in the intersection of emerging technologies, cost, business, and economic impacts across its diverse membership.

    The department is looking to strengthen its focus on economic impacts across our national economy and adding leaders who can help address national-level problems by conducting research, evaluating the impact of emerging tech solutions, and assessing the regulatory and policy environment to remove barriers to adoption and transition.

    The position will join a technically diverse and collegial team to work with other economists, energy and environmental engineers, public health scientists, systems engineers, remote sensing analysts and computer scientists to name a few.

    Necessary skills for this position include risk modeling, econometric analysis, handling and manipulating large data sets, and communicating complex qualitative and quantitative economic concepts effectively.

    Expect a multi-disciplinary team environment with self-motivated, highly trained professionals.

    This is a project-oriented position that may require project management, collaboration, communicating to technical and non-technical audiences, and direct sponsor engagement.


    Key Attributes:

    • An applied economics background with a history of specific application of economic theory used to influence real world decision making in a business context. This is not a research position.
    • A proven track record of developing strategic partnerships and actionable strategies with demonstrable outcomes to promote evidence-based decision-making The Cost and Business Analytics Department is within MITRE's Center for Acquisition and Management Sciences (CAMS)
    Innovation Center that solves our FFRDC's and Sponsor's problems by leveraging our capabilities within:

    • Cost Estimation, Schedule, and Risk Analysis
    • Investment Economics & Decision Analysis
    • Strategic Business &

    Financial Analytics Job Description:

    • Key functions include developing models and performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to understand the economic impact of investments, risk mitigation strategies, options and other government actions
    • Engaging with customers to advise and recommend economic metrics, tools, and policies that result in sustainable solutions
    • Developing strategic external partnerships to further the scope and depth of applied research and research outcomes
    • Economic modeling of integration and/or deployment challenges associated with technology or financing innovations through analytical, experimental, or model-based assessment
    • Collecting and analyzing financial, political, and socioeconomic data.
    • Conducting surveys and utilizing various sampling techniques.
    • Researching various fields including politics, healthcare, education, energy, etc.
    • Making use of historical data.
    • Analyzing market trends

    Basic Qualifications:
    * 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

    • Bachelor of Science degree or Masters/PhD in the fields listed below,


    • Economics

    • Engineering
    • Mathematics
    • Econometrics
    • Statistics
    • Operations Research
    • Data Analytics
    • Quantitative Sciences
    • Technical expertise/experience in one or more economic sub-specialties (Financial, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Behavioral Economics, etc)
    • Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills
    • The ability to design and conduct research of risk assessment and mitigation strategies in a collaborative, transdisciplinary environment
    • The ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving with minimal supervision
    • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret level security clearance
    • This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Advanced degree in Economics or related discipline
    • Extensive experience and expertise in the application of economic research in a business setting
    • Strong credentials, recognition, and partnerships in the design and evaluation of policies and strategies to economic solutions at scale This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret Work Location Type: Hybrid MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website EEO is the Law Poster and Pay Transparency . MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE's employment process, please email . Copyright 2024, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. Material on this site may be copied and distributed with permission only. Benefits information may be found here


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