Position Title:  Personnel Security Specialist V

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:

Independently develop various types of manuals, forms, instructions, and the like, to facilitate operation of the Security Program. Conduct exhaustive/extensive checks in accordance with appropriate guidelines, policies, and procedures. Apply innovative and imaginative approaches to problem solving. Request, receive, scrutinizes, and analyze investigative files and related material to determine, isolate, develop, and extract all possible identifying or linking information, which could have a bearing on individual's ability to hold a security clearance. Conduct critical analysis of incoming material / correspondence outlining possible serious and sensitive security concerns related to granting/denying revoking clearances. Provide on –the-job training, instruction, guidance, and advice to lower-grade specialists; assist in the resolution of issues and other problems during processing of cases. Participate in the direction, from inception to completion, of highly sensitive and complex security assessment investigations Act as technical expert in one or more security programs and serve as an assistant to a program manager, providing expert advice/assistance in formulating policies/procedures. Prepare in-depth summaries of data obtained and determined to be and compose correspondence for investigation initiation. Provide in–depth, high-risk analyses of high-risk investigations Evaluate reports of investigations, personnel files, and other records Provide a recommendation regarding the adequacy and completeness of the investigation and of other means by which data were collected, and evaluate the authenticity, veracity, and pertinence of the data to the case, and request additional information as required. Recommend whether a security clearance should be granted, denied, revoked, or suspended, as appropriate. Recommend and coordinate the execution of polygraph examinations and/or interviews. Coordinate/correlate investigative activity, information gathering, and matters of mutual interest between field offices, Legal Attaches, USG agencies, and private industry. Analyze the results of investigations to include results of interviews and polygraph examinations to ensure all issues have been addressed/resolved, and all gaps covered. Ensure cases are handled in compliance with policies and legal requirements. Perform all duties associated with a Personnel Security Specialist IV, as necessary, which may include: Conducting security briefings that include Security Awareness and Hostile Threat Initiating/performing extensive indices checks, arrest record checks, and the like