Security Specialist.

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Army INSCOM is seeking a security professional to develop and enforce program security procedures across personnel, physical, information, and industrial security.

You will adjudicate routine access nominations as the security official, document determinations, and drive risk-informed re-inspections to safeguard critical programs. Responsibilities include rendering authorization decisions on information systems with the ISSM, defending risk positions, issuing classification guidance, and

Qualifications

• Specialized experience as security advisor for SAPs/ compartments or projects.
• Experience conducting analyses to identify program security issues.
• Maintaining an authoritative system of records for program accesses and actions.
• Oversight and training of GSSOs/CSSOs.

Responsibilities

• Develops and enforces program security procedures for personnel, physical, information, and industrial security.
• Adjudicates routine access nominations as the security approving official and documents determinations.
• Establishes a risk-based re-inspection schedule driven by threat, facility modifications, program sensitivity, and past performance.
• Renders authorization decisions on information systems in coordination with the ISSM and defends risk acceptance positions.
• Issues classification guidance and resolves disputed classification or compilation determinations.
• Analyzes training, incident, and access data to identify trends and forecast future security requirements.

Skills

Physical Security

Personnel Security

Information Security

Program Leadership

Job description

• Develops and enforces program security procedures covering personnel, physical, information, and industrial security.
• Adjudicates routine access nominations as the security approving official and documents determinations.
• Establishes a risk-based re-inspection schedule driven by threat, facility modifications, program sensitivity, and past performance.
• Renders authorization decisions on information systems in coordination with the ISSM and defends risk acceptance positions.
• Issues classification guidance and resolves disputed classification or compilation determinations.
• Analyzes training, incident, and access data to identify trends and forecast future security requirements.

Duties

• Develops and enforces program security procedures covering personnel, physical, information, and industrial security.
• Adjudicates routine access nominations as the security approving official and documents determinations.
• Establishes a risk-based re-inspection schedule driven by threat, facility modifications, program sensitivity, and past performance.
• Renders authorization decisions on information systems in coordination with the ISSM and defends risk acceptance positions.
• Issues classification guidance and resolves disputed classification or compilation determinations.
• Analyzes training, incident, and access data to identify trends and forecast future security requirements.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• In accordance with Change 3 to AR 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program, individual must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• Must be willing to undergo and successfully complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination with No Deception Indicated (NDI) on a pre-appointment and periodic basis.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on a T5 (or equivalent level) investigation with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license. Must be able to pass the Army Defensive Driver's Training Course.
• Must be able to travel 25% or less of the time.
• All INSCOM employees may be subject to extended TDY or worldwide deployments during crisis situations to perform mission essential functions as determined by management.

Qualifications

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See

• Current Civilian Employees of the Command

Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.

Specialized Experience Is Defined As

• Experience providing subject matter expertise in serving as GSSO or PSO, Assistant PSO or primary security advisor responsible for the development, implementation and enforcement of security policies for assigned Special Access Programs (SAPs), compartments or projects.
• Experience providing subject matter expertise in conducting studies and analyses to identify program security issues.
• Experience providing subject matter expertise in maintaining an authoritative system of record for program accesses and security actions.
• Experience providing subject matter expertise in providing oversight, technical direction, and training to government and contractor security officers (GSSOs/CSSOs).

Specialized experience is progressively responsible intelligence-related security work directly related to the position being filled. Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector or in another government agency as long as it was at a level at least equivalent to the next lower band in the series.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Physical Security
• Personnel Security
• Information Security
• Program Leadership & Advisory

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

• This position requires a 2 year trial period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the
• This is a Physical Security and Law Enforcement Career Field.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• This is a drug testing designated position (TDP) under the Department of the Army Drug Free Federal Workplace Program in accordance with AR 600-85. Signing of a DA Form 5019 (Condition of Employment for Certain Civilian Positions Identified as Critical under the Department of the Army Drug-Free Federal Workplace Program) acknowledging periodic random drug testing requirements is mandatory prior to being placed into this position. Those individuals not currently occupying a TDP position must successfully complete a pre appointment drug test prior to being placed into this position and periodically thereafter.
• This position has been identified for the Security Professional Education Development (SPeD)Certification Program. This is the Department of Defense (DoD) Security Certification Program directed by DoD Instruction 3305.13. It is approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs for use in the Army via the following memorandum: Memorandum, Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, dated 8 September 2015, subject: Security Professional Education Development (SPeD) Certification Program. The SPeD certification is DoD''s initiative to professionalize the security workforce by establishing a common set of competencies for security practitioners that promotes interoperability, facilitates professional development and training, and develops a workforce of certified security professionals. This position requires the incumbent obtain the following core SPeD Certification: Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC) within their first two years of employment.
• Recruitment, Retention, and/or Relocation incentives may be authorized if it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.