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Security Manager - Childcare Background Check Program
Watermark Risk Management InternationalFalls Church, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jan 2026
About the role
Come make your mark with Watermark!🎖️ FOUNDED BY USAF VETERANS in 2007, we are proud to be a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.
🌎 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS specializing in security and risk management. We’re intimately familiar with DOD security programs and mission requirements.
⭐ OUR CORE VALUES drive every action we take as a company. We strive to exhibit PERSPECTIVE, PASSION, COMMUNICATION, INTEGRITY AND ETHICS, and BALANCE in all we do.
💲 COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE to address our employees’ physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. This includes 100% employer- paid medical insurance, ample paid leave, a free employee assistance program, and a competitive 401k savings plan. At Watermark, our people come first!
Security Manager – Personnel Security/Childcare Background Check Program
The Security Manager provides personnel security program support to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery N45 Mission Assurance Office, with a primary focus on Childcare Background Check programs. This position supports the development, implementation, and oversight of suitability adjudication processes, criminal history checks, compliance tracking, reporting, and policy development in accordance with Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management requirements.
In this role you will….
🌎 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS specializing in security and risk management. We’re intimately familiar with DOD security programs and mission requirements.
⭐ OUR CORE VALUES drive every action we take as a company. We strive to exhibit PERSPECTIVE, PASSION, COMMUNICATION, INTEGRITY AND ETHICS, and BALANCE in all we do.
💲 COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE to address our employees’ physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. This includes 100% employer- paid medical insurance, ample paid leave, a free employee assistance program, and a competitive 401k savings plan. At Watermark, our people come first!
Security Manager – Personnel Security/Childcare Background Check Program
The Security Manager provides personnel security program support to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery N45 Mission Assurance Office, with a primary focus on Childcare Background Check programs. This position supports the development, implementation, and oversight of suitability adjudication processes, criminal history checks, compliance tracking, reporting, and policy development in accordance with Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management requirements.
In this role you will….
- Develop and maintain Childcare Background Check standard operating procedures and concepts of operations
- Support development and maintenance of a Childcare Background Check tracking database
- Track annual certifications and five-year reinvestigation requirements
- Prepare monthly investigation status and performance summaries
- Support compliance reviews and policy updates
- Additional duties as assigned
- Minimum five (5) years of experience supporting Department of Defense or federal personnel security programs
- Demonstrated experience with:
- Suitability adjudication processes
- Criminal history background investigations
- Personnel security compliance and reporting
- Completion of Office of Personnel Management Fundamentals of Suitability for Suitability and Fitness Adjudicators course
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in security studies, Criminal Justice, Public Policy, Information Security, or a related field
- OR ten (10) years of relevant personnel security experience in lieu of a degree
- Prior experience supporting:
- Navy Medicine or Defense Health Agency personnel security programs
- Department of Defense childcare services
- Familiarity with:
- Navy Medicine policy coordination and staffing processes
- Action officer responsibilities within a headquarters environment
- Department of Defense personnel security training
- Experience supporting childcare background check programs
- Familiarity with adjudication policy implementation within Navy or Defense Health Agency environments
- Active Secret clearance
- May be required to move equipment/files weighing up to 50 pounds
- May require sedentary work at
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