Strategic Security Relationship Manager, National Security Space

Are you passionate about advancing our Nation’s National Security Space mission?

Are you an accomplished security professional who builds trusted executive relationships, influences strategic outcomes, and brings organizations together to solve complex National Security Space challenges?

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is seeking a Strategic Security Relationship Manager to serve as the principal security liaison and enterprise integrator for the Space Exploration Sector’s National Security Space portfolio.

Reporting to the Managing Executive for Security Services, this highly visible role engages leaders across the U.S. Space Force, Department of the Air Force, Intelligence Community, National Agencies, and APL mission organizations.

Success requires a strategic, hands‑on leader who builds trust, ensures security capabilities, builds confidence with stakeholders, and drives mission‑enabling solutions through implementation.

• Serve as APL’s principal security relationship manager for National Security Space, cultivating trusted partnerships with senior leaders across the U.S. Space Force, Department of the Air Force, Intelligence Community, National Agencies, and other government organizations.
• Represent SECD in executive engagements, sponsor meetings, program reviews, working groups, and strategic planning activities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Mission Area leadership and government sponsors, anticipating emerging requirements and aligning APL’s security capabilities with mission needs.
• Partner with government security leaders to address complex challenges, strengthen collaboration, and develop solutions that increase sponsor confidence and enable mission success.

• Coordinate capabilities across SECD—including SAP, SCI, physical, industrial, technical security, TEMPEST, Security Operations, and Counterintelligence—as well as ITSD and Mission Areas to deliver coordinated enterprise solutions.
• Build partnerships across APL that enable the organization to respond to sponsor requirements as one security enterprise rather than independent organizations.
• Translate sponsor priorities into coordinated action plans by aligning stakeholders, resources, and expertise and driving initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Maintain alignment between customer expectations and enterprise execution throughout strategic initiatives.

• Influence outcomes through collaboration, credibility, and trusted relationships, leading complex initiatives across security disciplines, technical organizations, Mission Areas, and government stakeholders.
• Develop coordinated strategies that balance mission enablement, operational effectiveness, sponsor expectations, and risk.
• Anticipate emerging security trends and sponsor priorities, recommending innovative approaches that strengthen APL’s position within the National Security Space community.

• Demonstrate how coordinated security enables research, operational excellence, and mission success while identifying opportunities to strengthen government partnerships.
• Champion solutions that remove organizational barriers, improve efficiency, and ensure security enables—not impedes—mission execution
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• Brief the Managing Executive, Mission Area leadership, and government sponsors on strategic initiatives, emerging risks, customer engagement, and opportunities.
• Develop meaningful measures of customer satisfaction, enterprise collaboration, organizational effectiveness, and mission impact.