Personnel Security Team Lead

Clarity Innovations•Herndon, VA

6d•$111,700 - $189,900

About The Position

The Personnel Security Team Lead leads, coordinates, and oversees daily personnel security operations supporting classified government contracts, facilities, and mission requirements. As the organization's senior personnel security subject matter expert, this role ensures accurate, timely, and compliant clearance processing, eligibility verification, access management, government reporting, security briefings, visit authorizations, and personnel security recordkeeping. The role provides operational leadership and technical guidance to security team members, establishes standardized workflows, monitors workload distribution, and drives process improvements across multiple facilities, CAGE codes, and mission verticals. It works closely with the Director of Security, FSOs, CSSOs, CPSOs, Human Resources, Recruiting, Program Management, and government security representatives to integrate personnel security into onboarding, contract staffing, program access, and organizational growth. The position oversees clearance and investigation processing, eligibility and access actions, briefings and indoctrinations, visit management, personnel security reporting, compliance support, and request workflows. It supports collateral, SCI, and SAP access requirements as applicable, and helps ensure adherence to 32 CFR Part 117, applicable Security Executive Agent Directives, and customer-specific requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in personnel security or industrial security, preferably in a DoW and/or Intelligence Community government contracting environment.
Demonstrated experience administering personnel security processes under the National Industrial Security Program.
Advanced working knowledge of 32 CFR Part 117, applicable SEAD requirements, and government personnel security procedures.
Extensive hands-on experience with DISS, NBIS, and other applicable government personnel security systems.
Experience coordinating clearance investigations, eligibility actions, access administration, and personnel security reporting.
Demonstrated experience supporting collateral and/or SCI personnel security operations.
Experience leading personnel security workflows, mentoring team members, or coordinating operational assignments.
Experience supporting DCSA inspections, security self-assessments, and compliance reviews.
Strong knowledge of personnel security records management, privacy requirements, and protection of sensitive information.
Ability to manage competing priorities and high-volume security processing requirements.
Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and resolve complex personnel security issues.
Commitment to exceptional customer service and operational excellence.
Ability to obtain and maintain applicable customer-specific accesses.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate daily personnel security activities for assigned cleared facilities, contracts, and government customers.
Oversee the lifecycle of personnel security processing, including clearance initiation, eligibility verification, investigation tracking, access coordination, periodic vetting, and out-processing.
Ensure personnel security actions are accurate, timely, and compliant with government regulations and customer directives.
Develop and maintain standardized workflows, checklists, tracking tools, and operating procedures.
Prioritize requests, assign work among security team members, monitor workload and processing timelines, and identify operational bottlenecks.
Improve personnel security processes, reduce administrative delays, and enhance customer support.
Provide status updates, workload assessments, and recommendations to the Director of Security.
Oversee personnel security processing in DISS, NBIS, and other applicable government systems.
Coordinate clearance investigations, reinvestigations when applicable, and Continuous Vetting requirements.
Review submissions for administrative accuracy and completeness within authorized responsibilities; monitor eligibility statuses and coordinate follow-up with government authorities.
Verify clearance eligibility before coordinating classified access and maintain accurate clearance and access records and system updates.
Coordinate personnel security actions involving transfers, separations, affiliation changes, and contract transitions.
Administer access requirements for collateral, SCI, and SAP programs as applicable, including briefings, acknowledgments, nondisclosure agreements, indoctrinations, and debriefings.
Coordinate classified visit requests and visit certifications through DISS and customer-directed systems.
Coordinate access actions with FSOs, CSSOs, CPSOs, and government security representatives, and ensure access is removed or modified when no longer required.
Maintain documentation of access actions and briefings and support compliant, timely onboarding and offboarding.
Ensure compliance with 32 CFR Part 117, applicable SEAD requirements, and customer-specific requirements.
Administer and monitor SEAD 3, adverse information, foreign travel, foreign contacts, and other personnel security reporting requirements.
Elevate reportable information to designated authorized security officials, coordinate required reports through approved channels, and document actions and follow-up.
Support DCSA security reviews, annual self-inspections, and government customer assessments; identify compliance gaps and recommend corrective actions.
Assist with developing and maintaining personnel security policies, SPPs, and reporting procedures, and recommend process updates in response to regulatory changes.
Oversee intake, triage, assignment, tracking, and resolution of personnel security requests through approved organizational systems.
Maintain accurate request status information in approved security platforms and tracking systems; establish service-level expectations and monitor overdue requests.
Coordinate with Recruiting, Human Resources, Program Management, and other stakeholders to resolve processing issues and provide timely, professional updates to employees and requestors.
Develop dashboards and reports to give leadership visibility into workload, processing efficiency, and outstanding actions.