Principle Industrial Security Representative

** Description*
* Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principle Industrial Security Representative to support a large-scale program in Reston, VA.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in counterintelligence awareness and briefings, personnel security clearance processing, and experience managing the physical security requirements of SCIFs for a customer within the intelligence community.

The selected candidate will need to be well versed in NISPOM, Intelligence Community Directives and SEADs, a self-starter who can prioritize security actions, provide excellent communication to employees, management and government customer, and a result driven professional to handle security issues.

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* Primary Responsibilities:

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* + Maintain and manage program security requirements to include all customer compliance requirements

+ Provide security clearance processing, physical/industrial security, computer investigations, and security operations support.

+ Prepare and disseminate security requirements, guidance, and procedures.

+ Provide Clearance and SCI briefing/debriefing to employees.

+ Ensure personnel are aware of the reporting responsibilities such as Foreign Contact, Foreign Travel and Outside Activities.

+ Track Government contractor badge renewal submission.

+ Receive, control and safeguard SCI and collateral information.

+ Collaborate with members of the DoD, the IC and other officials as required to maintain knowledge and understanding of current security regulations.

+ Monitor, update, and maintain appropriate records (e.g. database and hardcopy) of security actions.

+ Coordinate information with internal and external security offices and divisions.

+ Interpret security policy on matters pertaining to processing, dissemination, and controlling of classified materials.

+ Monitor and manage security operations and provide status reports and recommendations.

+ Create, manage, and execute Security Awareness and CI training programs.

+ Collaborate with internal and external managers to ensure understanding of program operations.

+ Draft or create security volumes for Request for Information or Proposals.

+ Work closely with program manage team and government customer.

+ Conduct foreign travel pre-post foreign travel briefings.

+ Author CI briefings and provide counterintelligence updates.

+ Conduct initial inquiries and write final reports related to security incidents and violations.

+ Respond to after hour intrusion detection systems (during the week and on weekends).

+ Maintain program security requirements to include; updating SOPs, maintaining personnel records via SIMs, updating and maintaining security education and awareness programs.

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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience in industrial / physical security. Additional years of relevant industrial security experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

+ Experience delivering full range of security services including, but not limited to:
All aspects of pre-screening hiring and onboarding new contractors, administering briefings/debriefings, security incident management, mentoring and instructing employees to ensure program and employee compliance with sponsor CI/Security regulations.

+ Experience interpreting customer security policies and CI risk mitigation.

+ Excellent oral and written communication skills with experience and ability to maintain program required Security documentation and to collaborate, coordinate, deconflict, and engage with various customer groups and a multi-cultural diverse workforce.

+ Experience managing and having oversight of large programs.

+ Experience briefing multi-level audiences is a must.

+ Advanced interpersonal and customer service skills as well as the ability to provide concise and compelling briefings to audiences of varied experience levels.

+ Ability to make sound decisions and advise PMO and customer leadership on sensitive personnel and security related matters.

+ Self-starter who has experience integrating with a customer security team and can independently perform program security duties with little supervision.

+ Experience providing extended, direct and substantive…