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Security Specialist
JMark Services Inc Washington, DC
$107k-147k (estimate)
Full Time 5 Months Ago
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JMark Services Inc is Hiring a Security Specialist Near Washington, DC

JMark Services Inc. seeks to hire uniquely and highly qualified personnel to meet the growing needs of our customers worldwide. As a successful small business, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable resource. We proudly offer a comprehensive benefits package along with support and commitment to the success and welfare of each employee who becomes part of the JMark family.
Job Title: Security Specialist
Location: Washington, DC
Clearance:  TS/SCI Required
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Summary:
Provide Personnel Vetting support to the Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement & Security (CL&S) Directorate.
Primary Duties:
  • 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. 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.
Qualifications
  • 10 years experience
  • TS/SCI
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Security or related field
This full-time position is Monday through Friday and operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Limited travel may be required.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
  • While performing the duties of this position, 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.
  • This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.
JMark is dedicated to the principle of equal employment opportunity and prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.

Job Summary

JOB TYPE

Full Time

SALARY

$107k-147k (estimate)

POST DATE

11/16/2023

EXPIRATION DATE

04/13/2024

WEBSITE

jmarkservices.com

HEADQUARTERS

Colorado Springs, CO

SIZE

50 - 100

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