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(562) Personnel Security Specialist

Arlington, VA (Pentagon)

Company Summary

Arlo Solutions (Arlo) is an information technology consulting services company that specializes in delivering technology solutions. Our reputation reflects the high quality of the talented Arlo Solutions team and the consultants working in partnership with our customers. Our mission is to understand and meet the needs of both our customers and consultants by delivering quality, value-added solutions. Our solutions are designed and managed to not only reduce costs, but to improve business processes, accelerate response time, improve services to end-users, and give our customers a competitive edge, now and into the future. 

Position Description: 

Arlo is seeking a highly skilled Personnel Vetting Support Specialist to provide critical support to the Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement & Security (CL&S) Directorate within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)) at the Pentagon. This crucial role directly impacts the security of the Department of Defense by contributing to the development, implementation, and oversight of personnel vetting policies and processes. You will play a vital part in safeguarding national security by ensuring the integrity of the DoD's personnel vetting system.


Location: Arlington, VA (Pentagon)

Clearance:  TS/SCI

Responsibilities and/or Success Factors: 

Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting, including background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries annually, complete with staffing packets and briefing materials (including visual presentations). Coordinate approximately 100 policy memorandums/DoD issuances annually.

This includes the creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages, ensuring grammatical and typographical accuracy. Support strategies, initiatives, and oversight to improve personnel security processes and performance. This includes reviewing, evaluating, and overseeing personnel vetting IT systems, research, and innovation initiatives, providing approximately 20 visual and oral presentations annually, participating in working groups, and communicating with stakeholders. Organize, plan, and execute approximately 10 personnel vetting projects annually, working within scheduling constraints.

This involves leading or participating in DoD working groups (e.g., Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0). Manage or support logistical and administrative aspects of engagements (approximately 5 per month), including developing grammatically correct and typographically error-free read-ahead packages. Conduct staff actions (up to 100 annually), including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, ensuring clear communication of complex topics and adherence to DoD correspondence standards.

Recommend policy changes (approximately 50 papers annually) in writing (information, issue, vision, or white papers) or orally, based on oversight assessments, vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs. Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues (physical, personnel, industrial, and information security), mitigating threats and managing risk (participation in approximately 15 meetings/working groups annually). Advise the Director, Insider Threat & Personnel Security, and other senior DoD leadership on potential issues affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight (approximately 15 recommendations annually). Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies (approximately 15 projects annually), producing research papers (with associated visual briefing materials) that are grammatically and typographically error-free.

 

Minimum Qualifications Including Certificates: 

  • Active TS/SCI Clearance.
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
  • Ten (10) years of demonstrated knowledge of national and DoD information security policies and procedures.
  • Five (5) years of experience developing and coordinating policies for OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff related to personnel vetting (background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation).
  • Proficiency in Trusted Workforce 2.0.

 

Desired Qualifications: 

  • Security Professional Education Department (SPED) certification.
  • Experience with DataBricks, GitLab, or Jira.
  • Experience with large-scale IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall).
  • Advanced knowledge of DoD acquisition processes.

 

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