Personnel Security Specialist - Senior

Amentum is a leading provider of enduring support for the essential missions of the U.S. government, its allied partners and international organizations. With over 60 years of experience, Amentum supports the execution of complex and critical missions by providing global logistics and stability operations, technical services and national security solutions to customers around the world. Amentum has a workforce of approximately 50,000 people in over 80 countries on all seven continents and is headquartered in Chantilly, VA.

Job Description

This position is contingent upon several items including, but not limited to, contract award, security processing, ability to pass a CI polygraph and position availability, which may lead to a lengthy hiring process.

The PSS provides support for security assessment investigations, including background investigations, periodic reinvestigations, and security clearances. Employment suitability determinations and continuous evaluation of employees to ensure eligibility for employment.

• Independently develops various types of manuals, forms, instructions, and the like, to facilitate operation of the FBI Security Program. Participates in special projects such as planning the implementation of new or revised programs.

• Conducts exhaustive and extensive checks in accordance with the FISs, Federal guidelines, policies and procedures. Demonstrates innovative and imaginative approaches to problem solving that adds to the quality and quantity of relevant data recovered in assigned cases.

• Provides direct support and service to the administration of the FBI Security Program by participating in the direction, from inception to completion, of highly sensitive and complex security assessment investigations conducted by the FBI FO’s and rendering appropriate adjudication recommendations regarding the same. Acts as the technical expert in one or more security programs, serve as an assistant to a program manager and provide expert advice and assistance in formulating and implementing policies and procedures.

• Requests, receives, scrutinizes and analyzes FBI Investigative files and related material to determine, isolate, develop and extract all possible identifying or linking information, matching records, questionable/overlapping elements, and viable avenues of investigative pursuit which could have a bearing on individual's ability to hold a security clearance. Analyzes material to develop and detect misrepresentations of facts, any criminal, immoral, or suspicious conduct, any signs of mentally disabling illness, indications of any type of association with hostile intelligence individuals, organizations, or persons of known or suspected questionable character, or fragments of information which furnish reason to sustain suspicion that the subject could be a security risk and/or significant target for coercion.

• Conducts critical analysis of incoming material/correspondence outlining possible serious and/or very sensitive security concerns relating to the most complex security assessment issues for the purpose of determining merit for granting, continuing, and/or revoking security clearances and access authorizations.

• Provides on–the-job training, instruction, guidance and advice to lower-level specialists; assists in the resolution of issues and other problems being encountered during processing of cases. Assists UCs, supervisors, and/or the GPM to provide continuing direction and assistance to other specialists for case(s) particularly sensitive and/or complex in nature; such cases may be reassigned to incumbent to resolve and complete. Reviews cases and routine correspondence to the FOs and/or outside agencies prepared by specialists for transmittal authorization by Government lead.

• Prepares in-depth summaries of data obtained and determined to be pertinent or relevant to a case at hand and compose necessary correspondence to appropriate FO(s) for initiation of an investigation. Provides detailed outlines of background of individual case and information developed from extensive initial research and of the subsequent analysis of same. Defines security vulnerabilities, set forth specific recommendations for the initiation of investigations, recommend leads which are to be addressed and followed, and advise of any restricting regulations, instructions, or information which may hamper the investigation.

• Coordinates with FBI Divisions on foreign nexus/concerns to exploit intelligence for the purpose of making adjudicative determination recommendations.

• Provides an in-depth, high-risk analysis of high risk (potentially serious or high impact) investigations so that the Government lead can make a security and suitability determination.

• Evaluates reports of investigations, personnel files, and other records to recommend suitability/security determinations.

• Provides a recommendation regarding the adequacy and completeness of the investigation and of other means by which data were collected, and evaluate the…