Personnel Security Management Specialist

Anthropic•New York City, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic's U.S. Industrial Security team is responsible for Facility Security Clearances (FCL), Personnel Security (PERSEC), Contracts and DD254s, Policies/Procedures/Automation/Metrics, and Compliance within the Defense Industrial Base and U.S. Intelligence Community. We are looking for a PERSEC Management Specialist to collaborate with the FSO on daily PERSEC casework for DoD/DoW and Intelligence Community (IC) contracts, covering both collateral and SCI. In this role, you will serve as the Contract Program Security Officer (CPSO) for classified contracts, managing personnel additions, removals, and upgrades. You will also work directly with cleared individuals, program managers, and government sponsors. Additionally, you will contribute to expanding our security education program and developing the workflows for all aspects of cleared personnel management, including contract support, terminations, debriefs, onboarding, reporting, and training. You will also provide backup support to the FSO on FCL matters to ensure ongoing compliance. This role is crucial for maintaining Anthropic's capacity to engage in classified work with the U.S. government. As the second hire in the industrial security program, you will be instrumental in shaping the PERSEC processes and the team's function from its early stages, with significant influence over how the program evolves beyond an established playbook.

Requirements

Hold an active Top Secret security clearance
Have Extensive experience in end-to-end classified contract program management
Have hands-on experience with DoD/DoW and IC PERSEC processes and terminology (VARs, NISPOM, CE/CV, SEAD 3, NISS, DISS, SWFT, NBIS)
Have worked with several different US government agencies, and have experience with collateral and SCI PERSEC processes and requirements
Have experience designing, delivering, and briefing a wide range of security content to a variety of cleared stakeholders (creating, rolling out security training)
Enjoy operating independently across time-bound, compliance-driven casework with minimal oversight
Notice what isn't working and take the initiative to propose fixes, rather than waiting to be told
Are comfortable figuring out what you don't yet know but need to know, without hand-holding
Use sound judgment on ambiguous CI/reportability calls
Enjoy the building and optimization of programs as much as running them
Can build trust quickly with a cleared population, program managers, and external agency points of contact
Are comfortable directing AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow rather than relying purely on manual processing

Nice To Haves

TS/SCI eligibility
Five Eyes clearance program experience
Experience delivering security training or building compliant security education programs for cleared personnel
Familiarity with adjacent industrial security functions: Safeguarding, DD254s/Contracts, FCL/Compliance, Policies/Automation/Metrics
Experience with Jira or similar ticketing systems
Willingness to travel periodically (approximately 6x per year) to company offices as needed

Responsibilities

Act as CPSO for classified contracts: add, remove, and upgrade personnel on contracts, and optimize relationships with program managers, employees, prime/subk partners, and government sponsors
Enhance and execute a security education program covering in-briefs, debriefs, and ongoing training for cleared employees
Build and enhance workflows for the full range of PERSEC casework: contract support, terminations, debriefs, in-briefs, and training
Own clearance actions end to end (initiation through debrief) across DoD/DoW systems (DISS, SWFT, NBIS) and IC-equivalent processes, both collateral and SCI
Manage CE/CV and reportable-event intake, including foreign travel and foreign contact reporting under SEAD 3
Maintain understanding of FCL fundamentals sufficient to serve as backup coverage for the FSO
Use Claude and other AI tools to automate PERSEC processes wherever possible, with the understanding that a meaningful amount of this work will remain manual given government constraints
Take on special projects and fire drills as needed