Personnel Vetting Support

Job Description

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Summary

All Native Group is in search of a Personnel Vetting Support to support the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (OUSD(I&S)), Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement and Security Directorate.

Work Location

Pentagon, VA - onsite full time

Essential Functions

Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting to include background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD vetting cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries, per annum with complete staffing packets and associated briefing materials, to include visual presentations.
Coordinate approximately 100 policy memorandums/DoD issuances per annum. This also includes creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages for the development or and coordination of read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures.
Provide support on strategies, initiatives, and oversight to overhaul and improve personnel security processes and performance to include the review, evaluation, and oversight of personnel vetting information technology systems, research, and innovation initiatives. This includes approximately 20 visual and oral presentations on strategies, initiatives, and/or oversight efforts per annum, participation in associated working groups, communication either orally or in writing with various stakeholders, and providing respective read-ahead packages.
Organizes, plans, and executes approximately 10 personnel vetting projects per annum while working within scheduling restraints. This includes leading or participating in DoD working groups such as Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0, Defense Security Enterprise, Defense Intelligence Enterprise, among others.
Manages or supports logistical and administrative structuring, scheduling, conducting, and reporting of engagements to include development and coordination of associated read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures, approximately 5 per month.
Conducts staff actions, including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, crisply convey complicated or nuanced topics in writing or orally, and provides draft packages that comply with DoD correspondence standards, are grammatically and typographically error-free, and require little editing. This includes up to 100 staff actions per annum.
Recommends changes in writing via information, issue, vision or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership on security programs and policy consistent with oversight assessment findings, identified vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs. This includes approximately 50 such papers per annum that are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures.
Coordinates within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues in the areas of physical, personnel, industrial, and information security as they affect DoD's ability to mitigate external and insider threats and assess and manage risk. This includes leading or participating in various meetings or working groups approximately 15 times per annum.
Advises the Director, Insider Threat & Personnel Security, and other senior DoD leadership on potential issues or roadblocks affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight. Page 16 of 25 Develops a recommended position, in writing via information, issue, vision, or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership, ensuring technology and policy solutions follow applicable laws, regulations, principals and standards approximately 15 times per annum.
Conducts research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies and prepares associated papers to inform decisions on policy, strategy, budget, and communication. Approximately 15 research projects per annum. Research findings will be produced in writing in the form of an applicable paper (per above) and will include associated visual briefing materials. Research papers are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures.
Strong clients focus and commitment to continuous improvement, ability to proactively network and establish relationships.
Manage multiple priorities in a high-paced and fast-changing environment.
Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Education and Minimum Qualifications

Must have active TS/SCI Clearance.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
Ten (10) years of demonstrated knowledge of national and DoD and information security policies and procedures.
Five (5) years of experience developing and coordinating policies for OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff. Policies should pertain to personnel vetting to include background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals.
Proficiency in Trusted Workforce 2.0.
Preferred Qualifications

Security Professional Education Department (SPED) certification
Supervisory Responsibility

None required for this position.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
Expresses or exchanges ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
Frequently moves standard office equipment up to 25 pounds.
Must be able to work indoor conditions 90% of the time.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is full time position. Monday- Friday. Must stay until 4:30pm daily.

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out of the area travel and overnight may be expected.

Security Clearance

Must possess or be able to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI security clearance

Drug Free Workplace

All Native Group is a Drug Free Workplace. It is our policy that all new hires must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen as a condition of employment. In addition, all employees are subject to random drug screens throughout the term of their employment with All Native Group.

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