Personnel Security Specialist - Entry

Advantage SCI, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading security firm as a Personnel Security Specialist - Entry. This role involves supporting a federal agency personnel security program, conducting assessments, and analyzing security risks. Ideal candidates will have at least a bachelor's degree and a TS/SCI clearance, and will actively contribute to improving the security assessment process.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in personnel security investigations preferred.
• Must have a current TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience conducting database checks.

Responsibilities

• Conducts security assessment investigations.
• Analyzes interviews and prepares reports.
• Reviews investigative material for security risk assessment.

Skills

Analytical ability

Database interpretation

Report writing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

Job description

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Job Description:

Position Title:Personnel Security Specialist -

Entry

Reports To: Program Manager

Job Description:

Position Title:Personnel Security Specialist - Entry

Reports To: Program Manager

Clearance Type: Active Top Secret/SCI (willing to take CI Poly)

Work Location: National Capital Region

Start Date: On Contract Award

Job Description:

Advantage SCI is accepting applications to support a federal agency personnel security program.

Summary Of Duties Include But Not Limited To:

• Participates in the direction of less complex security assessment investigations and rendering of appropriate adjudication recommendations.
• Conducts/reviews/analyzes a variety of interviews.
• Provides support, analysis, and research into complex PERSEC problems and processes.
• Completes written reports and/or oral presentations.
• Initiates/performs extensive indices checks, arrest record checks, and the like to obtain pertinent and identifying information for the cases assigned.
• Requests, receives, reviews, and analyzes various agency/Government files and related material for determination of an individual's potential security risk.
• Summarizes data and composes necessary correspondence for initiation of investigation.
• Issues guidance for the initiation of investigation, setting forth leads which are to be addressed in compliance with existing Federal standards and agency policy.
• Examines and critically analyzes investigative reports and correspondence for conformance to administrative requirements and to ensure the investigation is adequate, denoted leads have been sufficiently covered, and procedures have been conducted in accordance with agency regulations and policies.
• Recommends the need for polygraph and/or interviews based upon analysis.
• Receives, reviews, and analyzes the results of further investigations, along with the results of interviews and polygraph examinations to help determine individual's recommendation for security clearance approval.
• Summarizes all data provided and developed in a formal written analysis.
• Coordinates/works in concert with other agency components as required.
• Performs security assessment investigations/provides recommendations.
• Assists with briefings and debriefings of individual cases as necessary.
  
  

Required Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Must have a current TS/SCI and be willing to take a counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination at the Governments discretion.
• Bachelors degree with two (2) years experience or Associates degree with four (4) years experience
• Two (2) years of experience in the personnel security investigative or investigative analyst field
• Experience conducting and interpreting database checks and credit reports.
• Experience performing routine office administrative support functions.
• Demonstrated analytical ability to critically review and analyze various types of incoming material and investigative reports to discern potential security vulnerabilities and to identify viable investigative leads.
  
  

Working Conditions:

• Able to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
• Able to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist and reach
• Able to sit, stand, walk, run
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds
  
  

Advantage SCI, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Advantage SCI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Keyword: Personnel Security Specialist

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other, Information Technology, and Management

• Industries

  Security and Investigations

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