Alternate Special Security Officer - Personnel and Physical Security

Requisition Id 14226 

 

Overview:

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

 

We are seeking an Alternate Special Security Officer (ASSO) specialized in Physical Security (PHYSEC) and Access Control System/Intrusion Detection Systems (ACS/IDS),  with a broader knowledge of Personnel Security (PERSEC) roles and responsibilities. In this role, you will focus on a variety of complex processes, policies, directives, and procedures in order to implement and enforce the protection of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) within an SCI Facility (SCIF) in accordance with all relevant Intelligence Community Directives (ICD), Intelligence Community Standards (ICS), and Department of Energy (DOE) policies and procedures. This position resides in the Special Security Office in the FIE Secure Operations Section, Field Intelligence Element, National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD), at ORNL.  

 

As part of our team, you will join a vibrant group of security experts eager to provide premier customer service to all SCI clearance holders and visitors. We support visitor requests, SCI packages, training and education, ensure people and facilities remain secure, and that security practices and procedures are understood, implemented, and enforced.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Implement policies and procedures to comply with federal laws, regulations, and other requirements for the IC, DOE, Department of Defense (DOD), and other agency environments.

• Lead ACS/IDS efforts. Collaborate with the physical security team to ensure the alarm system’s health, maintenance, and operability align with organizational service level agreements (SLAs).

• Independently perform high operational tempo for day-to-day implementation and management of personnel security for SCI programs and SCI Facility operations. This includes creating and tracking visitor requests for visitors entering and leaving secure areas; initiating, submitting, and tracking personnel security clearances; and developing, implementing, and coordinating training programs to educate staff on security policies and procedures.

• Support the daily operations and management of multiple government approved facilities, including IC, DOE, DOD, SAP facilities, and other special programs.

• Manage various sized projects to ensure oversight of personnel and information security requirements to include inquiry into incidents of security concern, advising management, selecting the best solution from a range of possible or known solutions, and developing new or original solutions.

• Develop and implement security-related processes, procedures, and tools.

• Maintain current knowledge of and proactively seek new information on security standards and technology encompassing multiple security disciplines.

• Adhere to all security policies and requirements for SCI and/or CAP/SAP programs, sub-compartments, or projects and exercises these authorities on behalf of government approval authorities via special appointments.

• Ensure all SCI is properly controlled, transmitted, packaged, safeguarded, and properly destroyed. Maintain applicable SCI directives, regulations, manuals, and guidelines to adequately discharge ASSO duties and responsibility.

• Collaborate with Information Systems Security Managers, Information System Security Officers, Counterintelligence Officers, Contract Program Security Officers, and others as appropriate to ensure security of SCI, SCIFs, and infor