SUPERVISORY INDUSTRIAL SECURITY SPECIALIST

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA); Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) seeks a SUPERVISORY INDUSTRIAL SECURITY SPECIALIST to lead the Due Diligence team, oversee 10+ staff, and ensure timely EVA production evaluating company risk indicators and vulnerabilities. The role requires expert guidance on security processes and collaboration with government and industry partners.

Responsibilities include mentoring, workflow optimization, KPI monitoring, and coordinating with leadership to mitigate vulnerabilities

Qualifications

• Specialized experience with industrial security (NISP).
• Experience managing programs related to economics, business, or corporate law.
• Ability to analyze workflows, metrics, and needs with security focus.
• Ability to mentor and train staff to meet performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Supervise up to ten team leads and analysts, including contractor staff.
• Provide technical direction to government, contractor and external staff.
• Advise management and high-level officials on security and business issues.
• Identify improvements and implement solutions across workflows and guidance.
• Monitor KPIs and disseminate team metrics to supervisors.
• Manage workloads with case prioritization and suspense dates.
• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to team members.

Skills

Industrial security experience

Security program management

Leadership mentoring

Analytical vulnerability assessment

Portfolio/project management

Education

OPM qualification standards knowledge

DCIPS familiarity/training

Job description

Summary

The Due Diligence Branch Chief (DDBC) serves as part of the Entity Vetting Directorate senior leadership team and is responsible for supervising the research, analysis, and timely production of business and security-related Entity Vulnerability Assessments (EVAs) evaluating a company's risk indicators and assessing the resultant vulnerabilities' impact on a company's management personnel, business operations, USG customers, security posture, and national security.

Summary

The Due Diligence Branch Chief (DDBC) serves as part of the Entity Vetting Directorate senior leadership team and is responsible for supervising the research, analysis, and timely production of business and security-related Entity Vulnerability Assessments (EVAs) evaluating a company's risk indicators and assessing the resultant vulnerabilities' impact on a company's management personnel, business operations, USG customers, security posture, and national security.

Duties

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As a SUPERVISORY INDUSTRIAL SECURITY SPECIALIST you will be responsible for the following duties:

• This position devotes a minimum of twenty-five percent of its time to classical supervisory activity in overseeing the work of up to ten (10) GG11 to GG13 Due Diligence Team Leads (DDTL) and Due Diligence Analysts (DDA), and contractor staff.
• Provide highly technical direction and feedback to government and contractor staff, other internal parties, and external parties related to business and security research, associated analytical techniques, and related processes and procedures.
• Provides expert, authoritative advice and consultation to all levels of management within DCSA, to high level officials in the defense industry, vendors, and personnel in other agencies affected by the DCSA mission.
• Identify areas for improvement, determine the appropriate course of action addressing the areas for leadership's consideration, and implement solutions; areas for improvement may include workflow enhancements, product format revisions, additional training needs, and updates to internal guidance.
• Actively monitor team and individual metrics against established key performance indicators (KPIs) and prepare the timely dissemination of individual and team performance metrics to supervisors on a recurring basis as requested.
• Conduct workload management tasks by providing reasonable and appropriate suspense dates based on documented case prioritization related to timing, monitoring completion status, ensuring suspense dates are met, and realigning work, as needed, and if required.
• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to team members.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a US citizen
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. For more information http://www.sss.gov
• Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59PM EST will be considered
• This is a Drug Testing designated position
• Position is a (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C. 1601
• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• PCS (Permanent Change of Station): Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Required
• Telework Eligibility: Supervisors may approve situational telework on a case-by-case, temporary basis for limited situations.
• If selected, the incumbent must obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance as indicated in job announcement.
• Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain the Security Fundamentals and Professional Certification within 12 months of appointment.
• Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain the Industrial Security Oversight Certification within 24 months of appointment.
• Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain the Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification within 12 months of appointment.
• Incumbent is required to attend Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Analysis 101 training course within 12 months of appointment.
• Incumbent is required to attend Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Analysis 201 training course within 24 months of appointment.

Qualifications

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 10/05/2026

Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position.

You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GS/GG-13 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility.

Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience.

Specialized Experience For This Position Includes

• Demonstrating experience with industrial security (e.g., National Industrial Security Program (NISP)) and other security or intelligence disciplines.
• Managing a portfolio, projects, programs, or systems pertaining to economics, business, finance, or corporate law.
• Analyzing workflows, evaluating metrics, and performing needs analysis utilizing advanced knowledge of security, intelligence, and business.
• Leading and mentoring others by significantly contributing to their training to fulfill team or organization performance indicators.
• Analyzing complex corporate entities, structures, or programs for concerning vulnerabilities or threats impacting key personnel, programs, technology, organizations, or individuals to produce reliable, unbiased assessments.

Specifically You Will Be Evaluated On The Following Competencies

• Decision Making - Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Leadership - Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Developing Others- Develops the ability of others to perform and contribute to the organization by inspiring and providing a learning environment of ongoing feedback and opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods, enabling employees to address skill gaps and realize their highest potential. Actively encourages and supports enhancement of a joint perspective.
• Vulnerabilities Assessment and Management - Conduct assessments on threats and vulnerabilities, determine the level of risk, and develop and recommend appropriate mitigation countermeasures in operational and non-operational situations. Conduct assessments in a counterintelligence context to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, and sabotage conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, or international terrorist activities.
• Program Security - Employ an array of traditional, acquisition and security measures to sustain secrecy of highly sensitive United States Government programs and/or activities. Prevent unauthorized disclosure of national security program information throughout the program lifecycle.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

VETERANS PREFERENCE/CURRENT OR FORMER FEDERAL

In accordance with DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, veterans preference is not required to be applied when considering candidates with prior Federal competitive or excepted service who have completed a probationary or trial period and have not been separated for cause. Therefore, veterans preference will not be applied to applicants with current federal service, or former federal civilian service meeting the above criteria.

Re-employed Annuitant: This position does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at:

https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf

Applicants selected from this announcement may be required to serve a two-year trial period.

If selected, Federal employees currently serving in the competitive service must acknowledge that they will voluntarily leave the competitive service by accepting an offer of employment for a DCIPS excepted service positions.

If selected, non-DCIPS candidates must acknowledge in writing that the position they have been selected for is in the excepted service and covered by DCIPS.

All Defense Intelligence positions under the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) are in the excepted service by specific statue, 10 U.S.C. 1601. This position is in the excepted service and does not confer competitive status.

For more information on the DCIPS occupational structure click here.

For more information about career advancement in DCIPS click here.

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.

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