CISA Personal Security Specialist– Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits -Arlington, VA

$5,000 Sign on Bonus.

The Role

Are you a security professional with a Top-Secret clearance who is ready to take on a new challenge? Do you have the experience and skills to make critical security decisions and keep our organisation secure? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

We are looking for a dedicated Personnel Security Specialist to join our team. You will provide essential support for federal adjudicators in making informed suitability and national security decisions.

Your primary focus will be ensuring compliance with relevant policies, guidelines, and regulations, while also acting as a mentor and point of contact for your team.

If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to national security, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a POC for your team to field questions.
• Provide mentorship, ensure training, on the job training (OJT) and cross training is completed, and that the team is meeting its overall performance goals.
• Conduct formal assessments as required to ensure that all work activities performed on-site and off-site are of the highest quality possible and are accomplished and compliant.
• Proactively identify issues early and ensure the PM, APM or corporate resources are engaged as required to allow the PM and APM to remain focused on higher level program management tasks and customer needs.
• Expert knowledge or awareness and adherence to government policies or regulations governing security suitability and eligibility, such as Federal Investigative Standards (FIS), Executive Orders (E.O.) 12968, 13526, and 10450, Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs)  Security Executive Agent Directives (SEADs), Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704 or other guidelines to make the appropriate adjudication recommendations.
• Manage the review of systems, databases, responses to security questionnaires, reports of investigation (ROI), law enforcement documents, incident reports, and other source security information that contain personal history and related information associated with a candidate to make suitability, eligibility and adjudication recommendations or determinations.
• Make recommendations in accordance with regulations as to whether applicant meets the requirements for employment in a sensitive or non-sensitive position and is consistent with all appropriate adjudicative guidelines.
• Assist with implementing operational policies, procedures, programs, and standards as required, ensuring the efficient and effective implementation of the Continuous Evaluation Program and reporting requirements.

The Company

Together with our federal partners, PSI is engaged in protecting critical assets by investigating and adjudicating personnel for secure and sensitive programs, protecting the resiliency of the Nation's essential infrastructure, and supporting the safe placement of unaccompanied refugee minors.

PSI's success is driven by our motto "People First, Mission Always." We put people first, and this starts with our team members. We treat everyone on our diverse team with respect, and we work hard to ensure everyone's success by providing leadership, training, mentorship, and development opportunities. Our competitive benefits and culture of integrity, professionalism, and excellence attracts top talent in the industry.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Our company takes affirmative action in support of its policy to and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Our company maintains a drug-free workplace. All offers of employment will be contingent on applicant passing a pre-employment drug screen.

The Benefits

• Medical.
• HSA + HRA.
• Goodrx.
• Telemedicine.
• Dental Benefits.
• Vision Benefits.
• Basic and Voluntary Life and Ad&D.
• Disability Products.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• 401(K) Retirement Plan.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Financial Advisor.
• Tuition Assistance.

The Person

• Shall possess a high school diploma.
• Must have a Top-Secret clearance with the ability to obtain/maintain SCI.
• Must have four (4) years in personnel security administration, proven experience in rendering adjudicative decisions or recommendations, excellent computer skills using Microsoft Office, etc., excellent written and oral communication, risk-management and problem-solving skills.

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Contact information

Traci Wilson