Chief Personnel Security Policy

Intelligence Careers; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelligence Careers in Bethesda specializes in national security roles and is seeking a senior leader to drive personnel security programs across the U.S. government, coordinating with IC partners.

The role requires expert policy formulation, strong communication with senior officials, and proven ability to deliver IC-wide guidance under tight timelines. Applicants should have extensive experience leading complex security reforms and coordinating cross-agency projects to strengthen national

Qualifications

• Eight years of expert-level personnel security leadership and reform experience.
• Expert knowledge of IC policies, directives, and SOPs and ability to develop IC-wide policies.
• Experience with the U.S. Government and IC components and authorities within the IC community.
• Ability to apply ODNI/IC knowledge to meet national intelligence requirements and provide policy responses.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government.
• Integrate instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

Skills

Personnel security leadership

Policy development

IC knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Project leadership

Independent work

Job description

Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of eight years of expert-level experience leading and managing personnel security disciplines and deep knowledge and understanding of personnel security reform efforts.
• Expert knowledge of IC and related U.S. Government policies, directives, and standard operating procedures and superior ability to develop a broad range of IC-wide policies, processes, and guidelines.
• Expert knowledge of the U.S. Government and its IC components, missions, and interrelationships and experience working either with or in a major U.S. Government or IC organization; superior understanding of the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the organizations within the IC community.
• Expert knowledge of and superior experience in the research, formulation, development, and coordination of national level policies and directives, including expert knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for policy development and assessment.
• Expert ability to apply knowledge of ODNI and IC organizations and relevant customer organizations or operations (e.g., intelligence disciplines, military, policymakers, and law enforcement) in order to effectively address their national intelligence requirements and provide appropriate policy responses to meet IC needs.
• Superior interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including superior ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment effectively with senior officials, management, teams, and colleagues.
• Superior written and oral communication skills with expert ability to articulate complex intelligence issues to a wide audience, including the ability to write policy or analytic products for the senior U.S. Government officials and the IC workforce.
• Expert ability to build and sustain professional networks and collaborate with both management and staff to continuously improve community relationships, products, and services.
• Expert project leadership capabilities, including the ability to effectively coordinate business processes, deliver within time constraints, manage competing priorities, and adjust quickly to deal with time sensitive requirements.
• Superior ability to formulate objectives and priorities and implements plans consistent with the long-term interests of the Intelligence Community. Capitalizes on opportunities and manages risk.

Desired Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of personnel security disciplines.
• Expert knowledge of current National-level security-related topics such as Trusted Workforce 2.0, clearance process timelines, reciprocal recognition of security clearances and access approvals, and security business practices.
• Expert experience leading government-wide initiatives and achieving improvements.