Project Risk Lead

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Project Risk Lead to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Define, implement, and execute the Program Risk Management Plan across multiple task areas; maintain the integrated Risk, Issue, and Opportunity (RIO) register. - Conduct structured risk assessments for proposals, program changes, acquisitions, policy updates, and modernization initiatives to evaluate impacts on mission execution, cost, schedule, and governance. - Facilitate recurring Risk Review Boards with senior stakeholders; establish escalation criteria, decision frameworks, and mitigation strategies aligned with program and portfolio management practices. - Coordinate active risk mitigation: validate findings, assign owners, develop POA&Ms, and track corrective actions with program managers, technical leads, cybersecurity teams, and strategic planners. - Monitor cross‑task dependencies to identify systemic and cascading risks in geographically distributed and multi‑domain environments. - Produce executive‑level risk reports, impact assessments, COAs/ROMs, and mitigation status updates to inform lead...