Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO)

In this role, you`ll partner with government customers, program teams, and security professionals to manage program security requirements, protect classified environments, and enable secure mission execution.

Responsibilities

• Support day to day industrial and program security for classified programs
• Partner with government customers and internal program teams
• Support personnel security, access, clearances, briefings and visit requirements
• Manage security requirements associated with SCIFs and other secure environments
• Support DD254 requirements, inspections, assessments, and security documentation
• Apply NISPOM, ICD, and customer specific security requirements
• Collaborate across personnel, physical, information and program security functions

Requirements

• Professional experience executing industrial security responsibilities in a cleared contractor environment
• Professional experience supporting IC, Defense, or other customer-directed security programs
• Working knowledge of 32 CFR Part 117, NISPOM, Intelligence Community Directives, Security Executive Agent Directives, DD254s, and other applicable government security requirements
• Experience supporting SCIFs, Open Storage Areas, restricted areas, or equivalent secure operating environments
• Experience with personnel security and access administration, including clearance processing, access nominations, indoctrinations, debriefings, visit requests, foreign travel, and reporting obligations
• Experience using applicable security systems or customer systems such as DISS, NBIS, SWFT, or equivalent tools
• Ability to develop and maintain SOPs, security plans, local procedures, training materials, and assessment-ready records
• Ability to conduct or support self-inspections, customer assessments, corrective action tracking, and continuous compliance readiness
• Strong professional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with government customers, internal program teams, and other company partners
• Demonstrated discretion, judgment, and professionalism in handling classified, sensitive, personnel, and reportable information
• Ability to work independently, prioritize competing security demands, and make sound recommendations in high-stakes situations
• Ability and willingness to flex across programs, sites, customers, and priorities as business needs evolve
• Possess and maintain required clearance and access for assigned programs, which may include active Top Secret clearance, SCI eligibility, and customer-required polygraph, depending on role scope and location
• Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, business administration, information systems, security management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

Recommended Qualifications

• Prior experience as a CPSO, CSSO, AFSO, FSO, SCI security representative, or equivalent industrial security role
• Experience supporting multiple government customers, Intelligence Community customers, or programs with customer-specific overlays
• Experience with SCIF accreditation, ICD 705 and TEMPEST requirements
• Experience with OPSEC, insider threat, counterintelligence awareness, or SEAD 3 reporting
• Experience partnering with Information System Security stakeholders on system security requirements
• Experience supporting proposals, DD254 reviews, contract security planning, subcontractor security coordination, or customer security requirement interpretation
• Relevant professional development or memberships, such as CDSE training, NCMS, ISWG, or equivalent security community involvement
• Master’s degree in criminal justice, security management, intelligence studies, business administration, information systems, or a related field