Senior Security Specialist

Senior Security Specialist

Amentum is seeking a Senior Security Specialist to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Office of Security (SIS) in Springfield, VA.

Duties may include:

• Monitor and manage security programs and operations supported by providing status reports and recommendations for decisions.
• Assist, collaborate, and coordinate with other SIS offices and divisions.
• Develop solutions, and convey to internal and external customers.
• Provide agency level technical expertise concerning the identified security disciplines and operations support.
• Monitor security applications through the review and analysis of appropriate metrics and maintain required records.
• Prepare and disseminate security procedures/guidance.
• Provide guidance as required in implementing security requirements.
• Manage project milestones.
• Develop life cycle plans.
• Update and maintain appropriate records (e.g. database and hardcopy) of security actions.
• Conduct inspections and performs assistance visits, as required
• Liaise with members of the DoD, the IC and other officials as required to keep abreast of current personnel.
• Interpret security policy on matters pertaining to processing, dissemination, and controlling of classified materials.
• Receive, control and safeguard SCI and collateral information.
• Acts as liaison between NGA and other federal agencies and contractors.
• Risk management conducts surveys and render impact statements or recommendations.
• Prepare and deliver briefings to internal and external customers. Prepares various forms of correspondence.
• Monitor and manage security operations and provide government with status reports and recommendations for decisions.
• Apply experience in supporting security concepts, principles and practices to analyze and resolve difficult and complex security issues.
• Provide security guidance to contractors using DoD and IC regulations and requirements, analyze complex data and make appropriate program recommendations.
• Investigate and prepare impact statements, and provide recommendations on security/security violations.
• Prepare SCI Controlled Access Programs (CAP's), Special Access Programs (SAP), Alternative Compensatory Control Measures (ACCM) and other collateral materials for shipment to other agencies/sites IAW applicable security handling procedures.
• Prepare outgoing classified messages on employees/contractors visiting other government facilities.
• Provide technical security expertise in one or more of the following security disciplines: personnel, physical/industrial, computer investigations, and operations.
• Utilize security concepts, principles and practices to analyze and resolve difficult and complex security issues.
• Monitor security applications through the review and analysis of appropriate metrics.
• Develop the required program/operation to support tasks/requirements.
• Access to Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information (CNWDI) to be 28 UNCLASSIFIED eligible to indoctrinate/debrief their customers in support of NGA's GEOINT mission.
• Access to Restricted Data (RD) to be eligible to indoctrinate/debrief their customers in support of NGA's GEOINT mission.
• Manage Foreign Government Information (FGI) as required for Security Officer support to meet NGA's GEOINT mission.
• Obtain Access to Special Access Program (SAP), Control Access Program (CAP) and/or Alternate Compensatory Control Measures (ACCM) Information as required for the execution of NGA's sensitive program mission (SISS).
• Assist the Directorate stakeholders in implementing appropriate classification management efforts (at the Sensitive Compartment Information (SCI) and collateral levels) by providing approved classified guidance, release procedures, and marking criteria.
• Share knowledge and experience to facilitate effective practices and increase staff awareness of best practices.
• Provide timely classification management expertise to resolve complex classification management issues.
• Maintained personal classification expertise through collaboration with ODNI and IC classification management communities.
• Develop innovative techniques to implement training and compliance with established classification management policies.
• Participate in related training, informational briefings, and assist in responding to related agency taskers.

Required:

• Demonstrate 10 experience applying Executive Orders 12333, 13526 and 13556, Intelligence Community Directives (ICD) 703 & 710 and DoD Manual 5200.01 standards to classified national security information, controlled unclassified information, and information security.
• Demonstrate experience applying the requirements of the most recent edition of the Intelligence Community Markings System Register and Manual.

Desired:

• TS/SCI clearance and must be willing to undergo a polygraph exam
• 8 years demonstrate experience in briefing and communicating with customers with effective written and oral communication skills.
• Possess Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC)

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.