Security Specialist

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Job Description

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 ST-IC-W3U2AA US ARMY FUTURES AND CONCEPTS CENTER. Serve as organization Security Advisor, Security Program Manager, and Operations Officer.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

  • As Operations Officer, participate and lead weekly C-CDID plans and operations meetings.
  • Operations security (OPSEC) Officer, establish, provide oversight, and serve as the technical authority for policy and program management for OPSEC discipline area.
  • Recommend priorities to the supervisor; integrate and prepare calendars and tasking matrixes for completion of work. Develop and maintain tracking matrices and schedules for short to long range activities, exercises, and tasks.
  • Plan and coordinates directorate briefings for high-ranking military and civilian personnel and foreign dignitaries. Submit all required briefings to the CCoE and FCC Foreign Disclosure officers for approval.
  • Receive, distribute, track, and close all Security related taskings received from CCoE and FCC HQs. Serve as the lead integrator for all Conferences and Symposiums.
  • Conduct OPSEC assessments of operations, activities, exercises, critical programs, and support functions to determine if sufficient OPSEC measures are in place to protect critical information.
  • Develop long-range program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to evaluate the effectiveness of the OPSEC Program.
  • Maintain awareness of all OPSEC sensitive activities, advises leaders about the organization’s OPSEC posture, policy and the likelihood that OPSEC can be adequately maintained for those activities.
  • Serve as organization’s point of contact on personnel security (PERSEC) matters and resolve complex issues related to the PERSEC program.
  • Organization expert and account manager liaison on the Defense Information System for Security (DISS) and provides DISS training to subordinates, managers, portal account access, and account hierarchies for DISS.
  • Provide direct support and guidance to personnel with in/out processing tasks pertaining to PERSEC.
  • Interpret, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards for the protection of classified information. Serve as POC for information security (INFOSEC) matters and resolve complex INFOSEC program related issues.
  • Advise and assist managers on classification problems. Ensure classification guides are distributed and maintained. Ensure locally generated classified documents contain appropriate classification markings.
  • Conduct routine inspections to ensure appropriate INFOSEC safeguards are in place and provide inspection results. Identify, investigate, record, and report actual or suspected threats to security, compromises, and other INFOSEC violations.
  • Support and ensure compliance with local physical security (PHYSEC) policies, standards, and procedures, and provide technical guidance designed to protect personnel, facilities, property, and other assets.