Program Security Coordinator

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The Program Security Coordinator supports both Quality and Industrial Security functions across designated customer programs, ensuring compliance with government regulations and company standards while coordinating security activities, quality initiatives, documentation, and program operations.

• Review, develop, and implement Groundswell best practices, policies, procedures, plans, and standards, working with appropriate stakeholders for implementation and adoption at the program level.
• Support resource onboarding/offboarding and drive the security eligibility process for personnel on designated programs, including tracking of badging, account access, equipment allocation, and any client-specific requirements via Government systems or methodology.
• Support internal program coordination activities related to security and quality duties for designated programs, including preparing meeting agendas and slides, documenting meeting minutes, and tracking resulting action items, risks, and issues to closure.
• Support the investigation of security risks, incidents, and violations relating to designated programs and brings risks to the attention of Security, senior management, and PMs as identified.
• Support the customer satisfaction program for designated clients and all requisite program review activities under Groundswell’s certification and standard framework compliance assessments; monitor and assist with overall improvements to bolster integration of quality best practices at the program level.
• Directly support customer programs with the development and validation of technical and user documentation. These documents include but are not limited to plans, tracking systems, procedures, user guides, and work instructions within existing organizational framework supporting ISO 9001/20000/27001, CMMI-SVC, and CMMI-DEV.
• Set up and facilitate meetings for the Quality and Industrial Security functions (e.g., management reviews, annual disaster and/or incident response tabletop and training exercises, industrial security reviews and related meetings).
• Supports the National Industrial Security Program (NISPOM) and other security-related activities, including facility clearance (FCL) and personnel security clearance (PCL) processing, security training, briefing delivery, and ongoing awareness education program.
• Assist with the maintenance of security files and records in all appropriate internal and external systems in accordance with DCSA, NISPOM, and client requirements.
• Attends internal/external on-site and off-site meetings for designated clients on behalf of the Industrial Security team.
• Be able to support security assessments against information security/cyber frameworks such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC.
• Support other administrative duties as required by the Quality and/or Industrial Security teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in a suitably related field
• Minimum of 8 years+ of relevant business experience in a professional services organization, with focus on process improvement quality assurance
• 3-5 years of supporting of executing a DoD industrial security program vastly preferred, with experience in identifying risk to Industrial Security and responding to risk in executing the NISPOM
• Experience in communicating with government customers
• Working knowledge and applicable experience with implementation and maintenance of compliance frameworks such as ISO, CMMI, NIST 800 series, CMMC, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of federal security relations and procedures, 32 CFR Part 117/National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), and experience with managing relationships with Defense Counterintelligence and…