Contractor Staff Security Officer (CSSO

• Location CONFIDENTIAL,Ft. Meade, MD, 20755,United States
• Job Category Security Administration , Security , Programs
• Industry Defense and Space , Security and Investigations , Government Contracting
• Employee Type FT Exempt
• Manage Others No

Description

Cen Core Group is seeking a Contractor Staff Security Officer (CSSO) to support a mission-critical security services program at a secure federal customer facility. This on-site role serves as a primary security liaison and coordinates personnel security, access sponsorship, roster management, briefing records, compliance tracking, and customer-facing security support. The CSSO helps ensure personnel are properly processed, documented, briefed, trained, and maintained in an eligible status before and during assignment.

• Prepare and submit complete personnel clearance and access packages to designated customer representatives within required timelines.
• Create, maintain, validate, and submit electronic personnel rosters on recurring schedules and as personnel changes affect sponsorship or access.
• Coordinate sponsorship, access activation, badging support, onboarding, transfers, and removals with program management, corporate security, and customer representatives.
• Track personnel eligibility, access status, briefing completion, escort authorization, recurring training, and compliance expiration dates.
• Coordinate escort authorization requests and supporting documentation through approved processes.
• Ensure personnel complete required initial and annual security, counterintelligence awareness, operations security, and facility-specific briefings before assignment.
• Maintain accurate, auditable security and training records; elevate or remove personnel from duties when required compliance has lapsed.
• Coordinate reporting of foreign contacts, foreign activities, foreign connections, and other reportable security matters through approved channels.
• Report suspected or confirmed security violations and support incident documentation, inquiry, corrective action, and personnel removal when directed.
• Advise program management, recruiting, human resources, site leads, and employees on clearance, access, badging, briefing, and security compliance requirements.
• Protect sensitive personnel and security information and limit access to authorized individuals with a valid need to know.
• Provide status reporting on pending packages, access risks, expired requirements, and potential staffing impacts.

• Active
  Top Secret clearance with Polygraph
  .
  • Employment is contingent upon contract requirements, funding, customer approval, and successful completion and maintenance of all required security and access processing.
• U.S. Citizenship required; must provide a valid U.S. Passport Book or Passport Card.
• Experience performing personnel security, industrial security, program security, access processing, or closely related cleared-contract support.
• Working knowledge of DD254-driven personnel security and access requirements, security briefings, incident reporting, sponsorship, and roster control.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume, time-sensitive security records with strong accuracy and confidentiality.
• Strong written communication, documentation, customer liaison, and records-management skills.
• Ability to work on-site in a secure federal customer environment.
• Ability to meet and maintain the clearance, access, suitability, badging, briefing, training, and customer-approval requirements established for the assignment.

• Three or more years of experience supporting a cleared federal workforce or large security program.
• Experience with government personnel security processing systems, access rosters, eligibility tracking, and badge lifecycle support.
• Experience supporting several hundred cleared employees across multiple locations.
• Recognized industrial security, personnel security, or related security training or certification.
• Experience coordinating with corporate security, program management, recruiting, human resources, and government security representatives.
• Security judgment and discretion
• Confidentiality and information protection
• Re…