Processing Deputy Team Lead

Akima, LLC•Albuquerque, NM

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Processing Deputy Team Lead provides proactive management by identifying and anticipating problems, analyzing team data and metrics for early indicators of processing issues, communicating concerns to leadership before adverse impacts occur, and taking appropriate action to resolve problems and manage caseloads. The role communicates technical direction to staff and ensures lessons learned from quality assurance checks are disseminated and applied. Performance is measured by meeting time and data-entry requirements for assigned processing phases. The Deputy Team Lead directs daily section team members and processing activities, assists the Team Lead with planning and assigning contractor work and setting priorities, and reviews deliverables to ensure timely performance and compliance with Federal requirements and quality standards. The position also supports training, work planning, corrective action planning, personnel-security case processing, database entry, invoicing, and security inspections for NNSA Site Offices and contractors.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or five years of experience working in a DOE Personnel Security Program; management experience is desirable.
Working knowledge of the DOE Personnel Security Program, DOE Order 472.2, Personnel Security, and related Federal statutes and executive orders affecting personnel security programs.
Comprehensive knowledge of personnel security theories, techniques, and practices, with the ability to apply them to varied problems and situations and sufficient knowledge to evaluate personnel security cases.
Completion of professional development training related to Personnel Security proficiency at the DOE National Training Center.
Excellent technical writing skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise reports without technical errors and with correct grammar; maintain a 98% accuracy rate for work products.
Professional-level verbal and presentation skills.
Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook.
Demonstrated experience complying with Federal requirements and performing contract work and deliverables.
U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.

Nice To Haves

Management experience.

Responsibilities

Attend and complete professional development training related to Personnel Security proficiency.
Ensure investigative coverage is complete; identify and analyze derogatory and mitigating information; prepare detailed written case histories, evaluations, and analyses; make written determinations; and recommend further action and processing.
Prepare written products that are professionally presented and technically and grammatically correct. Case evaluations may include investigations, reinvestigations, HRP, and SCI cases.
Enter information and data into personnel security databases.
Direct section team members and daily processing activities to meet federally mandated timelines.
Assist the Team Lead in overseeing work planning and assignment to contractor personnel and setting priorities.
Review completed deliverables and work, manage the team’s workload to ensure timely performance under Federal requirements, and ensure quality standards in Federal standard operating procedures are met.
Complete end-of-month invoices and CPCI database entries.
Assist the Team Lead in maintaining a work plan that projects completion dates for assigned work and prepare corrective action plans as necessary.
Participate in developing and reviewing Processor and Vault Clerk training plans, including communicating expectations, proficiency requirements, and completion dates.
Provide on-the-job training to Processors and Vault Clerks as needed.
Participate as a personnel security subject matter expert in security inspections of NNSA Site Offices and contractors to assess compliance with personnel security regulations.
Prepare written reports and oral or visual presentations for NNSA and DOE management regarding inspection results and recommendations.
Perform other duties as assigned.