Technical Director, Trust Decision (Adjudications)

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency•Quantico, VA

About The Position

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), a separate agency of the Department of War, is hiring a Technical Director for its Personnel Vetting (PV) Trust Decision office. The position reports to DCSA's Deputy Associate Director, Trust Decision and is a Tier 1, Special Sensitive DCIPS position in the Excepted Service. The incumbent must obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and may be subject to DCIPS and DISL trial periods. The Technical Director serves as a principal advisor and authoritative technical authority to senior management on adjudicative frameworks, policy interpretation, emerging risks, and legislative changes. The role oversees policies, analytic methods, quality assurance, workforce capabilities, and technologies supporting sound trust determinations, and exercises delegated final authority for assigned enterprise adjudication functions. The position leads enterprise trust-determination strategies and governance, establishes quality-management and case-review approaches, and drives continuous improvement of adjudication operations. It represents the Agency in high-level engagements with government and external stakeholders, advances modernization through data analytics, workflow automation, and case-management systems, and directs workforce capability development. The role also administers and justifies the program budget and monitors contracted support. This is a managerial position with minimal supervisory authority. The tour of duty is flexible within Agency policy. Situational telework may be approved temporarily on a case-by-case basis; occasional temporary duty or local travel may be required. The position is designated Mission Essential. PCS may be authorized.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for Selective Service.
Resume must not exceed two pages and must demonstrate the required technical qualifications.
Demonstrated executive experience leading enterprise risk, compliance, or personnel trust governance; serving as a principal authority to evaluate sensitive risk, define risk-tolerance boundaries, and build cross-sector stakeholder consensus for legally defensible decisions.
Demonstrated executive experience directing high-volume, high-consequence decision pipelines through data-driven quality frameworks and leading enterprise digital modernization, including automation and advanced analytics, while preserving data privacy, human-in-the-loop accountability, and information security standards.
Must obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Must meet the Joint Duty Credit requirement for eligibility for consideration for a senior executive position; a waiver may be required before final appointment for candidates without credit.
Must complete the required initial drug screening and may be subject to random testing thereafter.
Must acknowledge applicable DCIPS excepted-service conditions if selected, including leaving the competitive service if currently serving in it.

Responsibilities

Advise senior leadership on complex adjudicative matters, policy interpretation, emerging risks, and legislative changes; render final technical determinations and provide decision-quality briefings, executive correspondence, and strategic recommendations.
Lead development, refinement, and execution of enterprise trust-determination strategies, policy proposals, and governance mechanisms.
Establish operational approaches and technical frameworks for risk-based, fair, consistent, and legally defensible adjudicative decisions.
Oversee enterprise adjudication operations by establishing quality-management frameworks, internal controls, and case-review methodologies.
Analyze workload drivers and performance indicators, resolve systemic issues, and improve business processes.
Represent the Agency in high-level engagements with Department of War components, Federal agencies, the Intelligence Community, and external stakeholders; build consensus on complex policy and technical matters, reciprocity, and information sharing.
Modernize adjudicative processes through responsible integration of data analytics, workflow automation, and case-management systems.
Define technical business requirements and ensure compliance with financial, privacy, and internal control protocols, including FIAR.
Direct workforce capability development, including competency modeling and training strategies, to support merit principles.
Administer and justify the program budget, determine resource priorities, and monitor contracted support.