Personnel Security Specialist Senior - Huntsville AL

Personnel Security Specialist Senior - Huntsville AL

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Job Description Position Title: Personnel Security Specialist - Senior

Reports To: Program Manager

Clearance Type: Active Top Secret/SCI (willing to take CI Poly)

Work Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Start Date: On Contract Award

Job Description: Advantage SCI is accepting applications to support a federal agency personnel security program. Summary of duties include but not limited to:

• Independently develops various types of manuals, forms, instructions, and the like, to facilitate operation of the agency Security Program.
• Conducts checks in accordance with Federal guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Requests, receives, scrutinizes and analyzes agency Investigative files and related material which could have a bearing on individual's ability to hold a security clearance.
• Conducts critical analysis of incoming material/correspondence outlining possible serious and/or very sensitive security concerns.
• Provides onthe-job training, instruction, guidance and advice to lower-grade specialists.
• Participates in the direction, from inception to completion, of highly sensitive and complex security assessment investigations and making clearance recommendations.
• Prepares in-depth summaries and compose correspondence for investigation initiation.
• Provides detailed outlines of background of individual case and information developed from extensive initial research and of the subsequent analysis.
• Coordinates with agency Divisions on foreign nexus/concerns to exploit intelligence for the purpose of making adjudicative determination recommendations.
• Provides a high-risk analysis of high risk investigations.
• Provides a recommendation on investigation adequacy and completeness.
• Recommends whether a security clearance should be granted, denied, revoked, or suspended, as appropriate.
• Recommends/coordinates the execution of polygraph examinations and/or interviews.
• Correlates and assimilates all data obtained and developed, prepares a formal written analysis of the security concerns, vulnerabilities, risks, and their resolutions.
• Coordinates/correlates investigative activity, information gathering, and other matters between field offices, Legal Attaches, other Government agencies, and private industry.
• Advises on follow-on actions and/or participates in and/or conducts security briefings.
• Analyzes investigation results to include interviews and polygraph examinations to ensure that all issues have been resolved, that gaps in information have been adequately covered, and that areas of concern have been completely addressed.
• Ensures cases are handled in compliance with agency policies and legal requirements.
• Determines the adequacy of reporting information to develop and set forth leads and provides guidance to the field during course of investigations.

Experience and Skills Required Qualifications Must have a current TS/SCI and be willing to take a counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination at the Government's discretion. Bachelor's degree 15 years of experience in federal law enforcement or 17 years of experience in the personnel security investigative or investigative analyst field Technical training/certification as an investigator and/or adjudicator is required Prior security management experience preferred Working Conditions: Able to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time Able to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist and reach Able to sit, stand, walk, run Able to lift up to 50 pounds Advantage SCI, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer