Senior Program Security Officer

MANTECH is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Program Security Officer to join our team in Huntsville, AL. The Compliance and Training Directorate contractor lead needs to be able to supervise and assist in enterprise functions including policy, strategic planning, knowledge and task management, security training, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Provide senior-level advisory and liaison support between program leadership, engineering teams, and government security officials.
• Ensure implementation of comprehensive protection strategies and implementation for CPI in alignment with Department of War (DoW) directives, national policy, and acquisition security reform.
• Define and validate SAP requirements, assist in the development of secure architectures, and integrate protection measures across multi-domain operations.
• Facilitate multiple MDA SAPCO working groups driving policy alignment, process improvement, and inter-directorate coordination.
• Leadership in the Daily operations of a SAP Central Office, to include: The development and maintenance of all enterprise SAP security policies, standard operating procedures, and template development.
• Oversee / creates MOAs/MOUs for DEZO and Co-Utilizations documents for enterprise locations
• Review SCG packages for consistency and accuracy, maintain and update SCG Template, complete enterprise security classification change requests
• Oversee 5-year updates process for OCA signed SCGs and maintain all program record files as required per DODI 5205.11.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and at least 8 years of experience as a program security officer (PSO) with at least 5 cumulative years in acquisition SAPs. Additional 2 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Possess exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with a high level of expertise in SAP regulations and the ability to provide security guidance to both government and contractor personnel.
• Possess an expert knowledge of the DoDM 5205.07 series, Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs), and other relevant SAP security policies.
• Have a solid understanding of Government policies and personnel security functions within a Special Access Program (SAP) Office
• Must be knowledgeable of OPSEC principals, policies, vulnerability assessments and countermeasure development and Program Protection Plan (PPP) development
• Travel is required to both CONUS and OCONUS locations
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• Master level skills and knowledge in Special Access Program (SAP) operations
• Capable of providing team leadership for a wide variety of security related tasks.
• Possesses extensive expertise, theoretical knowledge, and analytical abilities to synergize and apply personnel, industrial, physical, IT/IA and information security principals as they apply to Special Access Programs (SAPs)
  
  

Security Clearance Requirements

• Must have a current/active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility. Additionally, this position is nominative, therefore, the successful applicant must apply for, and be granted, SCI and SAP access.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary Work