Security Specialist

Summary

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Employees occupying DCIPS positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2 G2X DIRECTORATE, SECURITY DIVISION, SSO BRANCH, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Duties

• •Provides Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) support and regulatory oversight.
• •Provides accurate and timely advice and recommendations to senior Army/DOD leadership. Incumbent is the technical authority on SCI, and responsible for providing SCI regulatory oversight of the SCI program.
• •Incumbent is responsible for the creation, formulation, implementation and management of SCI policy pertaining to personnel security, information security, physical security, technical security, and transmission security for all supported SCI
• •Creates, formulates, implements and manages policy pertaining to SCIF Life Cycle Management from construction and accreditation through facility decertification.
• •Implements the command's program for SCI related security inspections, Automated Information Systems (AIS) surveys, Site Assistance Visits (SAV) and supports COOP training and exercises.
• •Ensure compliance with regulatory guidance, policies and procedures and evaluating the programmatic effectiveness of the following security disciplines: Information Security, Personnel Security, Industrial Security.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. 10-Point Other Veterans’ Rating 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans 5-Point Veterans' Preference Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Current DoD Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee (non-Army) Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement Disabled Veteran w/ a Service-Connected Disability, More than 10%, Less than 30% Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Prior Federal Service Employee Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible United States Citizen Applying to a DCIPS Position Army DCIPS positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Experience implementing SCI policy and regulatory guidance for regulatory oversight of security programs to include all related functional security programs such as (Personnel, Physical, Information, Automation and Operational security). AND 2) Experience managing the SCI Personnel Security Program to include personnel security clearance actions, security policy implementation, SCI access authorizations and management of personnel security clearance actions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GG/GS-12). Specialized experience is progressively responsible intelligence-related security work directly related to the position being filled. Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector or in another government agency as long as it was at a level at least equivalent to the next lower band in the series. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Security Program Management Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Security Technical Security