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Senior TSCM Lead

MELE Associates, Inc.
Springfield, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/13/2025 CLOSED ON 1/7/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior TSCM Lead position at MELE Associates, Inc.?

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Support Technical CI daily activities, including but not limited to:
    • Maintain knowledge of National, DoD, and agency regulations and instructions as they relate to TSCM and CI
    • Ensure designated National and DoD CI database is updated with mission reporting in a timely manner
    • Ensure accuracy and completeness of agency level mission support database
    • Advise development of, maintain, and implement standard operating procedures for the team
    • Manage overall training track for team baseline; identify and recommend individual practitioners for advanced training, assist coordination for annual training courses, and provide oversight for apprentice training program
    • Coordinate with TSCM Cyber and IPMS Leads to ensure missions are appropriately staffed

  • Perform operational level TSCM Lead support such as:
    • Assist the TSCM Program Manager and government leads as required with supervision of personnel and operations
    • Ensure all personnel assigned to the TSCM mission are trained in accordance with National standards for the conduct of TSCM operations
    • Ensure TSCM operations meet customer needs and threat based priorities
    • Ensure TSCM operations are conducted according to established guidelines
    • Ensure team familiarization with governing national and agency level policies
    • Ensure team mission reporting is complete and timely
    • Monitor and verify team understanding and compliance with physical and technical security standards when providing guidance for agency secure areas
    • Monitor team compliance with training requirements for access to DoD networks in accordance with DoDD 8140.01

  • Provide technical recommendation and guidance to and reinforce partnerships with agency entities such as:
    • Lead liaison opportunities in providing advice and assistance for agency security elements
    • Identify potential relationship opportunities across the agency enterprise
    • Coordinate determination of best practices for customers technical security
    • Coordinate TEMPEST issues identified in the conduct of TSCM activities with the NGA CTTA
    • Provide recommendation and guidance for NGA facilities under construction
    • Provide requestors with comprehensive documentation of procedures, listings of vulnerabilities and/or hazards, and recommended mitigation techniques or corrective action, respond to discovery of hostile technical surveillance penetrations according to established national procedures, and ensure NGA’s TSCM program is effective according to national, DoD, and agency objectives
    • Coordinate the actions of teams, projects, and/or initiatives covering the full spectrum of Technical Counterintelligence to ensure they are consistent with NGA’s mission, vision, goals, values, and operational structure, as well as with the organization, mission and goals of the national and DoD CI communities
    • Coordinate team activities, to include internal and external correspondence, resource allocation, personnel management, inventory control system, training program and policy development (requires extensive coordination and liaison not only within NGA, but external to NGA as well with DoD, IC agencies, and the military services)

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

    • Must possess a current and active DoD TS or DOE Q clearance
    • Experience writing and editing of technical documents
    • Shall have an Interagency Training Center (ITC) TSCM Certification
    • Shall complete at least 40 hours of discipline-specific development or refresher training every fiscal The training delivery may include classroom, on-line, or commercially-available training, or exercise. The NGA customer will sponsor Government-offered, discipline-specific development or refresher training IAW National and DoD standards.
    • Shall meet minimum training requirements, within one calendar year of assignment, for access to DoD networks in accordance with DoDD 01, by attaining and maintaining at least baseline certification for DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technician Level II (IAT2) compliance, at the sole expense of the contractor

    Preferred Qualification

    • Experience with telephone security (i.e. with Telephone Security Group (TSG) requirements)
    • Possess certification from TSCM for Information Systems
    • Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline
    • Be a credentialed graduate of an accredited federal or DoD CI training academy (ex. FBI Academy, etc.)

    Location: This is a full-time onsite position in Springfield, VA

    SALARY: Salaries are determined based on several factors including external market data, internal equity, and the candidate’s related knowledge, skills, and abilities for the position.

    Benefits

    • Employer Paid, High Quality Employee Medical, Dental & Vision Care
    • Low-Cost Family Health Care offered
    • 11 Federal Holidays and 3 weeks’ vacation
    • 401k with Generous Employer Match
    • Cross-training opportunities

    About MELE

    With over 300 employees and offices in Rockville, MD, Washington, DC, and Albuquerque, NM, MELE is a veteran and minority-owned government contractor empowering its customers with innovative solutions for more than three decades. MELE has team members located across the U.S. and has served more than a hundred countries across hundreds of project locations. The company offers technical, engineering, and programmatic support expertise to a host of U.S. federal and international agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, INTERPOL, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. MELE’s services include National Security and Intelligence, CBRNE Defense and Security, Facility Management and Engineering, Law Enforcement and Emergency Response Training, Technical, Analytica, and Program Management Support, and IT/Cybersecurity.

    MELE Associates, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. MELE Associates, Inc. is an E-Verify employer.

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