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Marathon TS · 5 months ago

Personnel Vetting Support Specialist

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Marathon TS is looking for a Personnel Vetting Support Specialist to support our efforts at DoD. The role involves developing and coordinating personnel vetting policies, managing projects, and advising senior leadership on security policy issues.

Information ServicesProfessional NetworkingProfessional ServicesTechnical Support

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting, including background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries annually, complete with staffing packets and briefing materials (including visual presentations)

Coordinate approximately 100 policy memorandums/DoD issuances annually. This includes the creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages, ensuring grammatical and typographical accuracy

Support strategies, initiatives, and oversight to improve personnel security processes and performance. This includes reviewing, evaluating, and overseeing personnel vetting IT systems, research, and innovation initiatives, providing approximately 20 visual and oral presentations annually, participating in working groups, and communicating with stakeholders

Organize, plan, and execute approximately 10 personnel vetting projects annually, working within scheduling constraints. This involves leading or participating in DoD working groups (e.g., Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0)

Manage or support logistical and administrative aspects of engagements (approximately 5 per month), including developing grammatically correct and typographically error-free read-ahead packages

Conduct staff actions (up to 100 annually), including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, ensuring clear communication of complex topics and adherence to DoD correspondence standards

Recommend policy changes (approximately 50 papers annually) in writing (information, issue, vision, or white papers) or orally, based on oversight assessments, vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs

Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues (physical, personnel, industrial, and information security), mitigating threats and managing risk (participation in approximately 15 meetings/working groups annually)

Advise the Director, Insider Threat & Personnel Security, and other senior DoD leadership on potential issues affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight (approximately 15 recommendations annually)

Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies (approximately 15 projects annually), producing research papers (with associated visual briefing materials) that are grammatically and typographically error-free

Qualification

Active TS/SCI ClearancePersonnel vetting policiesTrusted Workforce 2.0DoD information securityPolicy developmentAgile methodologiesWaterfall methodologiesDataBricksGitLabJiraSPED certificationDoD acquisition processes

Required

Active TS/SCI Clearance

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university

Ten (10) years of demonstrated knowledge of national and DoD information security policies and procedures

Five (5) years of experience developing and coordinating policies for OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff related to personnel vetting (background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation)

Proficiency in Trusted Workforce 2.0