Director, International Travel & Event Security

About Us:
If you are passionate about the ability of American business to improve lives, solve problems, and strengthen society, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the place for you. As the world’s largest business organization, we believe in building a future that gives everyone the opportunity to pursue a better tomorrow. We make it our job today–and every day–to build the strongest relationships possible among the American people, business leaders, and elected officials in Washington, D.C., state capitals, and countries around the globe. For them and the businesses we represent, the U.S. Chamber is a trusted advocate and partner.
We are driven by the pursuit of innovation and partnership and hold ourselves to the highest standards. Our commitment to our members is matched only by our commitment to our employees. As part of our team, we will support your long-term career development while delivering relevant learning opportunities. We will empower you to lead, develop deep expertise, and find new approaches to solving the toughest challenges.

Position Overview:
The Director of International Travel and Event Security will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, security, and seamless execution of international travel and events for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This position requires a strategic leader with expertise in risk management, security protocols, and international operations to safeguard personnel, assets, and activities in diverse global environments.

Responsibilities:
• Act as the primary coordinator for liaising with the International and Events teams and other Chamber divisions and departments regarding OCONUS travel and events.
• Attend and/or ensure Security team attendance at meetings with the International team, the Events team, and the Executive Office regarding international travel and events.
• Communicate with the International and Events teams to assess and coordinate appropriate security for international travel and events.
• Plan, evaluate security needs, coordinate, and provide security for the International team, the Chamber delegation, and Chamber travel and events.
• Help the director of Facilities & Personnel Safety & Security (DFPSS) coordinate and supervise the day-to-day physical security at the Chamber when not traveling to support international travel security needs.
• Collaborate with the director of EP Security to gauge the security needs of events with CEO/CPO attendance when they travel internationally and support both as directed by the VP, HOS and/or senior director of Executive Security when not traveling internationally.
• Help the director of Intel and Threat Assessment analyze incoming threat and protest intelligence related to international travel and event security.
• Coordinate proactive intel scraping surrounding Chamber international travel and events with the director of Intel and Threat Assessment.
• Assess employee, delegation, and Executive Office travel to determine if security enhancement is needed.
• Coordinate, plan, and provide employee guidance on travel safety.
• Coordinate with the travel security vendor to ensure that emergency planning and response is in place for employee travel.
• Act as the primary Chamber security representative to the U.S. government and Private Sector Protective Security Details to establish advance security procedures for VIP visits to Chamber international meetings and events.
• Coordinate with external venue security teams to ensure that appropriate security is in place for events at international venues.
• Provide enhanced security at all events based on threat assessment.
• Coordinate all medical support capabilities and emergency action plans at international Chamber travel and hosted events.
• Meet with and brief the vice president of Security regularly to cover all aspects of responsibilities and any issues that arise.
• Assist the EP team with CEO security as the mission requires.
• Supporting the EP team, establish primary and alternate routes for EP transportation, ensuring safe, timely, and efficient transportation, know the location and contact information for police and medical locations closest to sites visited by the CEO.
• Establish that the EP team knows primary and alternate arrival and departure points at sites visited by CEO.
• Collaborating the EP team, ensure that contingency and emergency plans are in place and briefed.
• Understand and use as appropriate the Chamber security comms
app Tango Tango to effectively communicate during security events.
• Understand and use as appropriate the Chamber-wide Mass communication tool AlertMedia to support Chamber events.
• Conduct and/or ensure that site advances of external Chamber events are completed to guarantee familiarity with ingress/egress and hard r