Personnel Security Specialist - Mid

Personnel Security Specialist

Advantage SCI is accepting applications to support a federal agency personnel security program. Position Title : Personnel Security Specialist Reports To : Program Manager Clearance Type : Active Top Secret / SCI (willing to take CI Poly) Work Location : Huntsville, Alabama Start Date : On Contract Award Job Description : Summary of duties include but not limited to :

• Provides critical thinking and analysis for written documentation and oral presentations.
• Reviews and analyzes requests for investigations concerning security clearances, reciprocity, requirements, violations, and assessments.
• Reviews and analyzes various agency investigative files and related material to determine and extract all possible identifying information, matching records, questionable or overlapping elements and other areas of investigative consideration.
• Examines and analyzes material to determine any deliberate misrepresentation of facts, which furnish reason to sustain suspicion that the subject may be a possible security risk.
• Conducts PSIs as determined during a security investigation, in conjunction with information developed.
• Prepares a detailed analysis of all information developed, supporting analysis and recommendations to initiate further investigation.
• Ensures that all relevant information and justification is developed and properly considered in accordance with security policies and regulations.
• Conducts security briefings which include Security Awareness and Hostile Threat.
• Assists in conducting preliminary and final reviews of statements of personal history and related data prior to the initiation of background investigation procedures.
• Conducts BIs of individuals who would occupy positions where a determination of suitability for employment or access to classified information is required.
• Prepares reports on investigations resulting from interviews conducted during BIs.
• Drafts summary sheets on the results of investigations for all assigned cases. May also draft a detailed evaluation of the adverse information.
• Drafts a list of recommended questions for lines of inquiry for follow-on investigations.
• Assists in making recommendations for adjudication of personal BI.
• Work assignments include but are not limited to :
• Review Personnel Security Questionnaires (SF-86 and SF-85P)
• Verify information submitted on applications
• Contact subjects via approved methods to complete information BI forms
• Retrieve data from credit bureaus, request Local Agency Checks, review reports to determine criminal record, traffic violation, etc.
• Prepares reports on investigations from interviews conducted during the BI.
• Drafts summary sheets on the results of investigations for all assigned cases.
• Prioritizes assignments and creates schedules to meet deadlines.