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Security Specialist Leader

DLA Careers
Alexandria, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/28/2026
Summary

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Duties

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  • Serves as an expert Security Specialist in the Risk Management Division, leading a compartmented, highly qualified, handpicked team executing the personnel, information, and industrial security programs.
  • Coordinates with other officials regarding security measures for the overall protection, classification, safeguarding, transmission, declassification, and destruction of classified information.
  • Develops and implements program protection plans across a wide variety of operational activities.
  • Develops and maintains comprehensive SOPs to ensure the proper execution of multi-discipline security programs across a diverse portfolio of facilities and activities.
  • Coordinates and monitors Executive Branch programs and assists in efforts to ensure these programs comply with Executive Orders, Federal Laws, National Security Directives, Defense Directives, and so on.
  • Coordinates with offices, agencies, commissions, and departments, including the White House, all branches of government, and industry principals within the private sector.
  • Analyzes, plans, and implements Operations Security (OPSEC) procedures to ensure protection of critical information throughout all phases of operations.

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Tour of Duty: Flexible (https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Join-Our-Team/Benefits/#Work)
  • Security Requirements: Special Sensitive/SCI
  • Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
  • Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
  • Bargaining Unit Status: No
  • Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
  • This is a special sensitive position which will require the incumbent to be the subject of a Special Background Investigation conducted IAW DoD Directive 5210.55.
  • Position also requires access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and may be subject to a Counterintelligence Polygraph IAW DoD Directive 5210.48.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Security Specialist Leader your resume and supporting documentation must support: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

  • Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
  • Supports security programs with responsibility to develop and implement security guidance for the protection of facilities and information.
  • Exercises initiative in the planning, creating, managing, and implementing of personnel, information, industrial, and operations security, intelligence support, and counterintelligence programs, and subsequently reviews, monitors, and enforces these programs.
  • Leads an experienced team or personally participates as a technical expert in interagency study groups for resolving problems in existing security systems and programs.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to: http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, nor fentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug and is illegal.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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