All Native Group is in search of a Personnel Security and Vetting SME to support the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (OUSD(I&S)), Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement and Security Directorate.
Work Location
Pentagon, VA – onsite full-time
Essential Functions
- Develop, revise, interpret, and coordinate policies about personnel security to include, but not limited to, tiered background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of DoD personnel. This includes national security positions, positions requiring access to classified national security information, sensitive and non-sensitive positions, and personnel that require physical access to DoD installations and facilities, and/or logical access to DoD information systems.
- Provide support for the development of strategies and initiatives to improve personnel security and adjudication processes to include, but not limited to, implementation of an electronic fingerprint capture, store, and forward capability, Joint Personnel Adjudications System (JPAS) policy maintenance and sustainment, transition from JPAS to the Joint Verification System - Defense Information Systems for Security, adjudicator certification, oversight of investigative service provider billing and product quality, oversight of Central Adjudication Facility policies, procedures, 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act compliance, continuous evaluation to defend against insider threats, establishment and implementation of performance metrics and monitoring.
- Provide Performance Metrics, Assessments, and Programmatic support.
- Developing staff packages (Action and Info Memos) in conformance with OSD, OUSD(I&S), and local office requirements.
Education and Minimum Qualifications
- Must have active TS/SCI Clearance.
- Minimum of 5 years of security policy or operational experience as a staff action officer on an OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff.
- Minimum of 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.
- Minimum of 5 years of 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.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience developing, updating, and coordinating personnel security policy and providing policy interpretations and policy guidance.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience coordinating effectively with the DoD services, Agencies, and Field Activities to resolve complex personnel security policy issues.
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience with developing performance metrics and assessments.
- Demonstrated excellent professional writing and project management skills.
Required Qualifications
Supervisory Responsibility
None required for this position.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
- Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Expresses or exchanges ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
- Frequently moves standard office equipment up to 25 pounds.
- Must be able to work indoor conditions 90% of the time.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is full time position. Monday- Friday. Must stay until 4:30pm daily.
Travel
Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out of the area travel and overnight may be expected.
Security Clearance
Must possess or be able to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI security clearance
Drug Free Workplace
All Native Group is a Drug Free Workplace. It is our policy that all new hires must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen as a condition of employment. In addition, all employees are subject to random drug screens throughout the term of their employment with All Native Group.
AAP/EEO Statement
All Native Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. However, preference may be extended to persons of Indian descent in accordance with applicable laws.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
