Contractor Special Security Representative (CSSR)

MB Solutions inc; Sumter (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MB Solutions inc seeks a Contractor Special Security Representative to provide comprehensive security support to ARCENT, safeguarding classified information, personnel, facilities, and mission-critical operations. The SSR acts as a trusted advisor and liaison to ARCENT leadership, ensuring DoD, Army, DCSA, NISPOM, and command requirements are met.

The role manages clearances, indoctrinations, debriefings, training, incident reporting, and compliance through continuous monitoring, inspections

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of contractor/security experience, with DoD/ARCENT exposure preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required and active Secret clearance.
• Experience coordinating with security offices, FSOs, DCSA, and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive security programs to protect classified information and personnel.
• Serve as the primary liaison with ARCENT security leadership and stakeholders.
• Manage personnel security requirements including clearances and indoctrination.
• Maintain accountability of individuals with access to classified information.
• Administer security education, briefings, and refresher trainings.
• Enforce protection requirements and manage incident reporting and corrective actions.
• Prepare documentation for inspections and coordinate with DCSA and ARCENT.
• Develop trackers, databases, and reports to monitor security posture.

Skills

Security program management

Contract security liaison

Personnel security

Security incident reporting

Training and awareness

Policy enforcement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Position Description

The Contractor Special Security Representative (SSR) shall provide comprehensive, proactive security support to U.S. Army Central (ARCENT), ensuring the protection of classified information, personnel, facilities, and mission-critical operations. The SSR will serve as a trusted security advisor and principal contractor liaison to ARCENT security leadership, ensuring continuous compliance with applicable DoD, Army, DCSA, NISPOM, and command-specific security requirements.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute a proactive security program that protects classified information, personnel, facilities, and operational activities while minimizing security risk to the ARCENT mission.
• Serve as the primary contractor security liaison with ARCENT security leadership, Government Security Office personnel, Facility Security Officers (FSOs), DCSA, and other authorized security organizations.
• Manage and monitor personnel security requirements for contractor personnel, including clearance status, eligibility, access, indoctrination, debriefing, reinvestigation requirements, and security-related administrative actions.
• Maintain continuous accountability of personnel with classified access, ensuring access is granted only to appropriately cleared personnel with a validated need-to-know.
• Administer security education and training programs, including initial security briefings, annual/refresher training, specialized security briefings, and termination/debriefing requirements.
• Enforce classified information protection requirements, ensuring classified material is properly received, controlled, stored, accessed, transmitted, accounted for, and destroyed in accordance with applicable policy and established command procedures.
• Identify, assess, document, and promptly report security incidents and potential security violations, ensuring appropriate notifications, documentation, mitigation, and corrective actions are completed.
• Conduct continuous security compliance monitoring and assist leadership in identifying vulnerabilities, security deficiencies, trends, and areas requiring corrective action.
• Support Government and DCSA security inspections, reviews, assessments, and self-inspections by preparing documentation, coordinating personnel, tracking findings, and facilitating timely corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain security trackers, databases, rosters, reports, and compliance documentation necessary to provide leadership with accurate and timely visibility of the organization's security posture.
• Support classified meetings, conferences, exercises, operational events, and command activities, ensuring security requirements are established and enforced before, during, and after each event.
• Coordinate security requirements for personnel movements, visits, temporary duty assignments, deployments, and other mission activities involving classified information or access.
• Provide immediate, authoritative security guidance to personnel and leadership regarding classified information handling, reporting requirements, security vulnerabilities, and risk mitigation.
• Conduct security risk assessments and recommend corrective measures to reduce the potential for unauthorized disclosure, compromise, or loss of classified information.
• Establish and maintain a culture of security awareness and accountability, reinforcing individual responsibility for protecting classified information and reporting security concerns.
• Track and close security deficiencies and corrective actions, ensuring identified vulnerabilities are addressed within established timelines and do not adversely affect mission execution.
• Provide recurring security status reporting to ARCENT leadership, highlighting compliance metrics, outstanding actions, security risks, incidents, trends, and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Support continuity of security operations during exercises, contingency operations, organizational transitions, and periods of increased operational tempo, ensuring security requirements remain fully integrated with mission execution.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience: 8-10 Years

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Clearance: Secret