Expert Risk Mitigation Specialist Security Clearance

Benefits

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

• The Risk Mitigation Specialist provides near real‑time support to assess and mitigate risks and threats.
• Collecting and analyzing data sets to validate people, assets, utilities, infrastructure, and the information environment associated with JTF‑SREC priorities.
• Assessing global risks and threats, supporting CI analytics for SOF and HUMINT operations as well as military and commercial supply chain activities.
• Collaborate with CI Analysts to present new or anticipated threats and related probabilities of risks.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments for proposed intelligence operations, new technologies, or collaborative partnerships to identify potential security and counterintelligence threats.
• Analyze foreign intelligence entity (FIE) threats, tactics, and targeting patterns to inform defensive measures.
• Perform vulnerability analyses of internal processes, operational plans, and technical systems to identify potential weaknesses an adversary could exploit.
• Interview personnel involved in security incidents or anomalies to determine the root cause, scope, and potential damage of a compromise.
• Design and recommend specific countermeasures—procedural, technical, or operational—to reduce identified risks to an acceptable level.
• Create and deliver tailored security, counterintelligence, and OPSEC briefings for personnel and teams based on their specific roles or mission sets.
• Collaborate with legal, policy, and technical experts to ensure proposed mitigation strategies are effective, compliant, and feasible.
• Conduct periodic inspections and reviews of ongoing activities to ensure that emplaced risk mitigation measures are being adhered to.
• Monitor and report on compliance with agency and IC-wide security policies and directives.
• Track the remediation of identified vulnerabilities and policy deviations, ensuring that corrective actions are completed and effective.
• Review after‑action reports from security incidents to identify systemic issues and recommend improvements to agency‑wide policy and training.
• Serve as the primary security and risk advisor to leaders and managers of operational, technical, or analytic teams.
• Prepare and present formal risk assessments, findings, and recommendations to senior decision‑making bodies and oversight committees.
• Liaise with counterparts in other IC agencies to deconflict activities and share best practices and threat information.

• Minimum 20 years of combined work‑related experience in the Risk Mitigation career field with a minimum of 10 years since 2015 within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to define problems, supervise studies, and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrated analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques.
• Demonstrated extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers (e.g., General/Flag Officer level or higher).
• Demonstrated in‑depth knowledge and understanding of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) mitigation, including performing reviews, special analyses, and evaluations of business operations to develop and implement integrated mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated in‑depth analysis of FOCI‑related operations, with the ability to coordinate multiple reports, generate concise executive summaries, and clearly articulate key findings to senior‑leader decision makers.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with minimal oversight while performing oversight functions, collecting security data from legal business entities, and conducting outreach engagements.
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