Personnel Security Specialist

About the Organization

Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We're looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.

About the Role

Redhorse Corporation is seeking a highly skilled Personnel Vetting Support Specialist to provide critical support to the Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement & Security (CL&S) Directorate within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)) at the Pentagon. This crucial role directly impacts the security of the Department of Defense by contributing to the development, implementation, and oversight of personnel vetting policies and processes. You will play a vital part in safeguarding national security by ensuring the integrity of the DoD's personnel vetting system.

Key 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.

Required Experience/Clearance

• 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.

Desired Experience

• Security Professional Education Department (SPED) certification.
• Experience with DataBricks, GitLab, or Jira.
• Experience with large-scale IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall).
• Advanced knowledge of DoD acquisition processes.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse's changing needs.

This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse's sole discretion.