Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI clearance and willing to take a Polygraph.
A new, five-year contract award has created the opportunity for an Alternate Cognizant Security Officer to support our government customer located at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D. C. This position is required to be onsite.
Benefits include 15 days PTO, 11 days Paid Government Holidays, a 401k with 6% matching and an inclusion in our employee profit sharing program.
Description
The Alternate Cognizant Security Officer (ACSO), under the direction of the GPSO, is responsible for the day-to-day management and implementation of the facility's SCI Security Program. The ACSO should have the familiarity of working with government agencies and industry partners and shall lead the ACSOs and Security Administrator team.
The ACSO is responsible for developing an organizational approach to complying with the customer's mission and vision statement, implementing Security Directorate policy at local sites. The incumbent must effectively communicate with senior leaders and be knowledgeable of all security pillars: physical security, industrial security, information security, personnel security, and cyber security; and may be tasked other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in management, security, and/or a related field.
- Shall have at least one year experience developing, organizing, and administering a security training program.
- Shall have 3 or more years’ experience with collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), and Special Access Program (SAP) security regulations with demonstrated experience in the following areas:
- Applying SCI directives, regulations, manuals, and guidelines.
- Supervising the operation of a SCIF, maintaining SCIF documentation, and administering the SCI Program.
- Controlling, transmitting, transporting, packaging, destroying, inventorying, accountablefied information, to include media.
- Conducting or leading security inquiries to include drafting final incident reports.
- Creating and maintaining access records within DISS and/or Scattered Castles.
- Certifying, transmitting, and receiving visitor clearances and accesses.
- Conducting indoctrination and termination briefings.
- Conducting annual security self-assessments.
- Reporting derogatory information to the Central Adjudication Facility (CAF) on SCI-indoctrinated personnel.
- Providing support to Special Access Programs (SAPs) based on approved co-utilization agreements.
- Initiating security clearance investigations on e-QIP.
- Conducting securityfication reviews in accordance with securityfication guidance or applicable OCA guidance.
- Coordinating pertinent day-to-day security operations with ISSM/ISSO.
- Creating and conducting an SCI training program.
- Overseeing the operation of access control systems and intrusion detection systems.
- Shall have 3 or more years’ experience in the Risk Management process.
- Shall have the Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC).
- Shall have 3 or more years’ experience using the Microsoft Office application suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Possess a working knowledge of the ICD 704 and ICD 705; to include but not limited to, nomination, interviews, validation of SCI access requirements, submission of investigative requests, conducting SCI security briefings, obtaining signed NDAs, and perform other related personnel security actions.
Desired Qualifications
- Extensive experience in using the SIMS applications.
- Experience overseeing the operation of a closed-circuit surveillance system.
- Experience in drafting and overseeing construction security plans.
- Working knowledge of the CAP/SAP areas and the DODM 5205.07 Volumes 1-4.