Job Description

Job Description

ClearanceJobs’ is assisting our client in hiring a Facility Security Officer to maintain principal responsibility over our client’s Facility Clearance and Personnel Security Clearance operations. This includes day-to-day industrial security operations across the D.C. metro area, providing first-class knowledge and customer service to staff, managing personnel clearance program and secure facilities and systems.

This is a full-time On-SITE position in Ashburn, VA offering salary + benefits package. An active DOD Top Secret Clearance is required (TS/SCI with FSP is a plus).

Candidates must have proven experience arbitrating policy and processes around personnel and clearances and partnering business leaders to plan for future support of National Security and Department of Defense (DoD) missions.

The ideal candidate is resourceful and will challenge conventional approaches to find better ways to navigate intricate bureaucracies. They'll execute important processes, reimagining and optimizing along the way to ensure faster outcomes that align with our customers' compliance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Daily execution of compliance across personnel and physical security programs within a given USG accredited facility.
• Provide expert advice and direction as it relates to complex Industrial Security matters and interpret emerging Industrial Security related policies to ensure a compliant program.
• Collaborate with Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency (DCSA) Industrial Security Representatives and similar cognizant security offices for U.S. National Security agencies to address issues, brief upcoming business needs and to ensure consistent interpretation of NISPOM requirements
• Responsible for mandatory USG reporting as it relates to our personnel, facility, and insider threat programs.
• Ensure successful government audits of our Industrial Security program. This will require collaboration with Program Managers, and other stakeholders to ensure business expectations are met and proper resources are allocated to meet current and future security program needs.
• Arbitrating policy and processes around personnel, clearances, and our facilities.
• Operate and optimize complex collateral, SCI, and SAP clearance application and collateral reinvestigation pipelines in order to grow and maintain cleared workforce at pace with our USG business.
• Maintain strict confidentiality as related to all security matters
• Build and maintain an Insider Threat Program
• Perform a wide variety of administrative duties in support of security procedures and requirements
• Review and amend as needed security policies and procedures
• Personnel Security - Assisting employees with initiating, maintaining and terminating personnel clearance actions
• Conducting security clearance indoctrination briefings and debriefings.
• Ultimate responsibility for all cleared personnel as it pertains to getting and keeping clearances.

Required:

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• Effective communication with a customer service-oriented mindset.
• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience managing and implementing security program requirements as a FSO, to include at a FOCI-mitigated company or subsidiary.
• Expertise in navigating DISS, SWFT, e-QIP/e-APP, ACCS and similar USG systems.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, with a willingness to contribute across additional critical, cross-team functions and projects.
• Demonstrated capability to think outside the box and develop strategies and processes that maintain a strong security posture while enabling business outcomes.
• Ability to be onsite at a given facility within a 60-minute response time, with potential on call duties during after-hours, weekends, and holidays.

Desired:

• Active TS/SCI with Full-scope Polygraph highly preferred.

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