Overview

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is a public health preparedness and emergency response organization in the Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. ASPR was created under the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to lead the nation in preventing, preparing for, and responding to the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the operation of and administration of security oversight operations within the ASPR SCIF
• Maintain applicable SCI directives, regulations, manuals, and guidelines adequately discharging the duties and responsibilities
• Maintain access list of all personnel granted unescorted access to the ASPR SCIF and maintains a visitor’s log for the facility
• Ensure all visitors are appropriately escorted
• Provide escort training to those personnel assigned as escorts or unescorted access to the facility
• Serve as the official conduit, through HHS SSO, for certifying and receiving SCI visitor clearances/accesses to the facility
• Ensure annual Self-Inspections are completed and discrepancies identified and corrected.
• Monitor all reported SCI security infractions, compromises, and violations that occur
• Ensure appropriate accreditation documentation is available for the ASPR SCIF facility
• Ensure prompt submission of written documentation to HHS SSO of any plans to change or modify the ASPR SCIF facility structure, operations, services, and systems
• Report directly to ONS for all SCI and SCI facility security inquires.
• Maintain validation of duties and responsibilities along with attendance of SCI related training requirements annually
• Provide annual reports on classified materials and safes
• Responsible for necessary new hire NDAs

Qualifications

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree (Management or Business)

Required Experience

• 8-10 years of experience
• Formal training and experience with ICD 704 and ICD 705
• Ability to process actions in a timely manner
• Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability
• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective independently
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast- paced environment
• Intermediate level Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, and Adobe Acrobat skills
• Superior time management skills.

Desired Experience

• Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) certification
• SCIF build experience

Required Clearance

• Favorable adjudicated Tier 5 investigation and be able to obtain and maintain a minimum TS/SCI clearance