Personnel Security Policy SME (TS/SCI)

Federal Staffing Solutions•Arlington, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Federal Staffing Solutions is seeking a Personnel Security Policy SME to work in Arlington, VA, supporting our client at the Pentagon. This role involves developing, revising, reviewing, communicating, and coordinating policies related to personnel vetting, including background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation under DoD cognizance. The position requires creating policy memorandums, responding to queries, and coordinating DoD issuances. The SME will also support strategies to improve personnel security processes, evaluate IT systems, and manage vetting projects. This includes leading or participating in DoD working groups and conducting staff actions. The role requires advising senior DoD leadership on security policy and developing recommendations based on research of applicable laws and policies. The SME will coordinate with various security disciplines to ensure integration and risk management.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI Clearance
5-7 years of security policy or operational experience as a staff action officer on an OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff.
5 years of experience working with DoD, Intelligence Community, and national-level personnel security policies and procedures.
Knowledge of the DoD's personnel security functions to include personnel security manager responsibilities, investigations, and adjudication policies.
Demonstrated expert proficiency in policy development; drafting, formatting, tracking, staffing, reviewing and reconciling inputs to DoD Directive(s), Instruction(s), Manual(s) and other publications; as well as conducting critical review of other entities’ policy documents to ensure personnel security equities are accurately reflected.
Experience developing, updating, and coordinating personnel security policy and providing policy interpretations and policy guidance.
Experience coordinating effectively with the DoD services, Agencies, and Field Activities to resolve complex personnel security policy issues.

Responsibilities

Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting to include background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD vetting cognizance.
Develop up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries, per annum with complete staffing packets and associated briefing materials, to include visual presentations.
Coordinate policy memorandums/DoD issuances, including creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages.
Provide support on strategies, initiatives, and oversight to overhaul and improve personnel security processes and performance, including the review, evaluation, and oversight of personnel vetting information technology systems, research and innovation initiatives.
Organize, plan, and execute personnel vetting projects while working within scheduling restraints.
Lead or participate in DoD working groups such as Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0, Defense Security Enterprise, Defense Intelligence Enterprise.
Manage or support logistical and administrative structuring, scheduling, conducting, and reporting of engagements to include development and coordination of associated read-ahead packages.
Conduct staff actions, including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, crisply convey complicated or nuanced topics in writing or orally, and provides draft packages that comply with DoD correspondence standards.
Recommend changes in writing via information, issue, vision or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership on security programs and policy consistent with oversight assessment findings, identified vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs.
Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues in the areas of physical, personnel, industrial, and information security as they affect DoD’s ability to mitigate external and insider threats and assess and manage risk.
Lead or participate in various meetings or working groups.
Advise senior DoD leadership on potential issues or roadblocks affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight.
Develop a recommended position, in writing via information, issue, vision, or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership, ensuring technology and policy solutions follow applicable laws, regulations, principals and standards.
Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies and prepares associated papers to inform decisions on policy, strategy, budget, and communication.
Produce research findings in writing in the form of an applicable paper and include associated visual briefing materials.