The United States Space Force (USSF) at Joint Base Andrews, MD is searching for a Security Manager to support Space Delta 13 (NH-0080-03, GS-12/13 equivalent).

Description:
Be a part of Space Force Delta 13! Join a diverse team of professionals dedicated to designing, integrating and skillfully navigating space education for U.S. Space Force Guardians. Producing Space War fighters with sound professional knowledge, integrity of character, wisdom fit for a warrior, a common sense of organizational and social responsibility and a passion for improving the Guardian way of life.
General Description: As the Security Specialist for Delta 13 you'll play a key role in preparing space professionals to make strategic decisions in challenging environments, fostering integrity, responsibility, and a commitment to enhancing the lives of Guardians.
Purpose: To recruit a skilled Security Specialist who will contribute to the mission of Delta 13 by serving as the authority on all substantive special security matters, ultimately supporting the development of U.S. Space Force Guardians for success in complex operational environments.

Security Specialist Duties:
- Plans, organizes, and oversees the security activities of Delta 13. Sets and adjusts short and/or long-term priorities. Establishes metric and analysis systems to assess efficiency and effectiveness. Evaluates requirements for additional resources and balances organization needs with overall mission requirements and resource interests.
- Implements and administers the Collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) personnel security programs. Primary Delta 13 contact for creation and management of security information files (SIF) and processes including maintenance of files and records pertinent to personnel clearances.
- Plans, organizes, and directs a comprehensive program, ensuring that SCI management complies with legal and regulatory requirements, administration, deployment, enforcement, and meets customer needs. .
- Develops and promotes a proactive "all-source" collection and analysis strategy focused on information disclosure threats.
- Serves as the Delta 13 authority on all substantive special security matters and the additional duty Foreign Disclosure Officer (FDO).

Ideal Candidate:
Searching for a highly disciplined Security Manager capable of formulating security program goals, plans, policies, and procedures related to the development and operation of Delta-wide information protection functions and activities. Plans, organizes, and directs a comprehensive program, ensuring that Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) management complies with legal and regulatory requirements, administration, deployment, enforcement, and meets customer needs. The ideal candidate must have knowledge of security systems, procedures, theories, and devices sufficient to consider and apply several alternatives according to the security requirements for highly specific situations, availability of materials, relationships with other protective programs, and cost/benefit considerations. Additional skills are needed to interpret a variety of security program laws, directives, regulations, and guidance to assist organization in establishing and operating internal security programs and ensure effective security controls.


Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Extensive knowledge and expertise of a wide range of advanced concepts, principles, criteria, requirements, technology, communications, foreign disclosure, classified contracts, and practices involved in security and DoD SCI directives and regulations.
2. Expert knowledge of personnel security processes and regulations in collateral, SAP and SCI control systems to administer and/or lead a team of security professionals.
3. Knowledge of security systems, procedures, theories, and devices sufficient to consider and apply several alternatives according to the security requirements for highly specific situations, availability of materials, relationships with other protective programs, and cost/benefit considerations.
4. Comprehensive knowledge of security program interrelationships to coordinate the objectives and plans of two or more specialized programs to support and promote information sharing and strategies.
5. Skill to interpret a variety of security program laws, directives, regulations, and guidance to assist organization in establishing and operating internal security programs.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
• Safeguards classified or sensitive budget-related information and/or files.
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
• PCS / Relocation funding is not authorized.
• Department of Defense Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC) conferral is required within 2 years of the established employee EOD or initial assignment date to this position in accordance with DOD 3305.13-M.
• Subject to TDY 15 days per year.
• This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.

Qualifications

The 0080 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administraive and Management Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
   • Job title
   • Detailed duties and accomplishments
   • Employer's name and address
   • Supervisor's name and phone number
   • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
   • Hours per week
   • Salary, if applicable
4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

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