Security Liaison Specialist

U.S. House of Representative; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. House of Representatives is seeking an experienced liaison to the Sergeant at Arms (SAA) security programs. The incumbent will coordinate with Congressional offices, USCP, and other stakeholders to administer security services and process facility access and law enforcement support requests.

This role requires strong security knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment while maintaining compliance with House policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Experience in law enforcement, security, security management, emergency response, intelligence analysis or a related field.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. The job requires preparing time-sensitive reports and communicating with various stakeholders.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and disseminate information effectively. This includes monitoring police activity, tracking incidents, and reporting information to senior staff.
• Experience in coordinating activities between different organizations or teams. The role involves liaison with the USCP and other entities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and process multiple tasks simultaneously. The job involves dealing with time-sensitive and event-driven situations.
• Knowledge of or ability to quickly learn relevant SAA policies, House Rules, Committee rules, and USCP policies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between the SAA, Congressional offices, the USCP, and other stakeholders to administer security programs.
• Process requests for facility access, as well as law enforcement support requests.
• Represent the SAA to the USCP Command Center and Protective Intelligence Operations Center.
• Ensure delivery of security services to stakeholders through understanding of security and law enforcement principles.

Skills

Adaptability

Collaboration

Communication

Customer Orientation

Decision Making

Organizational Awareness

Planning and Coordination

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in criminal justice, public administration, political science

Job description

The incumbent serves as a liaison between the SAA, Congressional offices, the USCP, and other stakeholders to administer security programs. The incumbent processes requests for facility access, as well as law enforcement support requests. The incumbent serves as the SAA representative to the USCP Command Center and Protective Intelligence Operations Center. This job requires an understanding of security and law enforcement principles to ensure the delivery of security services to stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

• Experience in law enforcement, security, security management, emergency response, intelligence analysis or a related field.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. The job requires preparing time-sensitive reports and communicating with various stakeholders.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and disseminate information effectively. This includes monitoring police activity, tracking incidents, and reporting information to senior staff.
• Experience in coordinating activities between different organizations or teams. The role involves liaison with the USCP and other entities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and process multiple tasks simultaneously. The job involves dealing with time-sensitive and event-driven situations.
• Knowledge of or ability to quickly learn relevant SAA policies, House Rules, Committee rules, and USCP policies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with or within the legislative branch or government. Familiarity with the Capitol Hill complex and its security protocols.
• Experience in preparing and delivering briefings to senior-level staff.
• Knowledge of incident reporting and management systems.
• Background in intelligence analysis or threat assessment.
• Degree in a relevant field (e.g., criminal justice, public administration, political science).

Skill Requirements:

CORE

• Adaptability - Ability to deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations and work persistently when facing obstacles. Ability to work well in ambiguous situations, adjust quickly to change, and easily consider new approaches.
• Collaboration - Ability to foster a sense of unity and trust within teams, breaking down silos and promoting teamwork across departments. Ability to encourage and facilitate cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity. Skill in working with others to achieve goals.
• Communication - Ability to convey ideas and information to different audiences through verbal and written means. Knowledge of different writing techniques for different document types and purposes. Ability to create written documents that are complete, grammatically accurate, and technically sound.Ability to articulate ideas clearly through speech.
• Customer Orientation - Values and delivers high quality, professional, responsive, and innovative service to internal and external customers. Builds and maintains effective customer relations that result in satisfaction; holds self and others accountable forquality outcomes.
• Decision Making - Skill in making sound, well-informed, and objective decisions, taking into consideration the potential impact and implications of the decisions. Ability tocommit to action even in uncertain situations.
• Organizational Awareness - Knowledge of the structure, functions, and dynamics present within the U.S. House of Representatives and the Office of the Sergeant at Arms. Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures that govern the organization. Knowledge of how the Sergeant at Arms fits within the broader context of Federal
  agencies and how it contributes to government functioning.
• Planning and Coordination - Ability to organize work, set priorities,and determine resource requirements. Ability to determine short- or long-term goals andstrategies to achieve them. Ability to coordinate with others to accomplish goals. Skill inmonitoring progress in relation to desired outcomes.
• Problem Solving - Ability to identify problems; skill in determining accuracy andrelevance of information. Ability to use sound judgment to generate and evaluatealternatives, develop effective solutions, and make recommendations.

Work Schedule:

This is a full-time, permanent position. The anticipated work schedule will be either Wednesday through Sunday or Saturday through Wednesday, from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The specific schedule will be determined based on operational needs.

PhysicalRequirements and Work Environment:

This job is based in a typical office environment. Actual weight handled varies, but the role involves handling items including books, documents, and equipment weighing up to 25 lbs. The incumbent should be capable of meeting physical requirements, which may include sitting, lifting, bending, crouching, walking, and standing.

OtherSignificant Factors:

• Job requires on-call support.
• Job does not typically require travel outside of Capitol campus.
• Job may be required to report to work in all conditions.
• Job may require various shifts, extended hours, or weekends.