Controlled Unclassified Information Program Lead

Idaho National Laboratory's Information Security Department is hiring! Our team works a 9x80 schedule located out of our Idaho Falls facility with every other Friday off.
The Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program Lead is responsible for implementing and administering CUI requirements under DOE Order 470.7 (Safeguards and Security Program), Executive Order 13556, 32 CFR Part 2002, and the CUI Registry.

• Administer and implement applicable regulations in the identification, protection, and marking of CUI as defined in the National Archive’s CUI Registry.
• Direct CUI program communications, schedules and milestones, budgets, and activities to ensure successful and timely implementation of program priorities.
• Engage with leadership and functional stakeholders, including information systems/technology, information security, legal, human resources, export control, FOIA, privacy officer, operations security, foreign national access programs, cybersecurity, logistics, procurement, manufacturing, R&D functions, and external entities, to identify and meet CUI requirements.
• Collaborate with Legal, Contracts, and Procurement teams to ensure the flow down of federal government CUI requirements to subcontractors, partners, and vendors.
• Determine and generate requests for equivalencies and exemptions from applicable DOE order and CFR requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain CUI policies, processes, and procedures; monitor and respond to changes in governmental policies that may impact CUI requirements; conduct periodic reviews to ensure accuracy and relevance. Apply information protection principles and concepts to ensure that CUI is properly identified, marked, safeguarded, disseminated, decontrolled, and destroyed.
• Advise and provide guidance to all levels of management, staff, and applicable contractors on current CUI policy.
• Ensure processes for reporting and recording CUI misuse and breaches, decontrolling CUI, and resolving CUI challenges are aligned with established requirements and company policies.
• Develop, maintain, and provide CUI training to employees.
• Respond to CUI data calls and audits, conduct self-assessments, and develop measurable metrics and goals for reporting KPIs to identify areas for program improvement.
• Exercise discretion and judgment with the ability to work independently with minimal instruction for day-to-day activities.

• Level 3:
  Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Level 4:
  
  Bachelor's degree with 9 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience.
• Relevant technical experience, which may include experience in Nuclear Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Foreign Policy;
  Chemical and Biological Weapons;
  Intelligence and Counterintelligence;
  Isotope Enrichment Technology;
  Nuclear Weapons;
  Radiological Emergency Response;
  Safeguards and Security;
  Nuclear Material Production and Processing;
  Other Government Agencies (i.e., Department of Defense, Space Power, and Naval Reactors).
• Prior experience marking, controlling, storing, and destruction of sensitive information is preferred.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen. Obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” clearance.
• Required to obtain certification as a Classification Analyst (including DC with public release authority, UCNI RO, and Derivative Declassifier) within one year of obtaining a DOE “Q” clearance or as soon as possible if already in possession of a DOE “Q” clearance.

• Background/knowledge in classification; technical/scientific/engineering field; DOE nuclear/scientific programs.

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