Personnel Security Specialist VI - TS

Personnel Security Specialist (PSS) – TS

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a Personnel Security Specialist (PSS) Grade 6 you will support a full range of background investigation (BI) and adjudications support services to comply with Executive Orders (EO), Security Executive Agent Directives (SEAD), Federal Investigative Standards (FSI), and agency policies. You will serve as a knowledgeable and experienced PSS to assist the Agency Personnel Security Program Managers (PSPM) in performing BIs and adjudication case work in support of security and suitability investigations and adjudications and other assigned security – related activities. Come join our award-winning organization and work with some of the most talented and brightest minds in the GovCon industry.

Clearance:

Top Secret

Location:

Washington, DC/ Huntsville, AL

Responsibilities

• Performs complex, high - risk, insider threat, high - level security investigations and adjudication recommendations.
• Perform as contractor Team Lead
• Perform Quality Control (QC) case reviews
• Identify additional training requirements from QC case reviews
• Perform Just-in-Time training to remedy identified QC deficiencies
• Independently develop various types of manuals, forms, instructions, and the like, to facilitate operation of the Agency Security Program. Participate in special projects such as planning the implementation of new or revised programs.
• Conduct exhaustive and extensive checks in accordance with the FISs, Federal guidelines, policies and procedures. Demonstrate innovative and imaginative approaches to problem solving that adds to the quality and quantity of relevant data recovered in assigned cases.
• Request, receive, scrutinizes and analyze Agency Investigative files and related material to determine, isolate, develop and extract all possible identifying or linking information, matching records, questionable / overlapping elements, and viable avenues of investigative pursuit which could have a bearing on individual's ability to hold a security clearance. Analyze material to develop and detect misrepresentations of facts, any criminal, immoral, or suspicious conduct, any signs of mentally disabling illness, indications of any type of association with hostile intelligence individuals, organizations, or persons of known or suspected questionable character, or fragments of information which furnish reason to sustain suspicion that the subject could be a security risk and / or significant target for coercion.
• Conduct critical analysis of incoming material / correspondence outlining possible serious and / or very sensitive security concerns relating to the most complex security assessment issues for the purpose of determining merit for granting, continuing, and / or revoking security clearances and access authorizations.
• Provide on –the-job training, instruction, guidance and advice to lower-grade specialists; assist in the resolution of issues and other problems being encountered during processing of cases. Assist UCs, supervisors, and / or the GPM to provide continuing direction and assistance to other specialists for case(s) particularly sensitive and / or complex in nature; such cases may be reassigned to incumbent to resolve and complete. Review cases and routine correspondence to the FOs and / or outside agencies prepared by specialists for transmittal authorization by Government lead.
• Provide direct support and service to the administration of the FBI Security Program by participating in the direction, from inception to completion, of highly sensitive and complex security assessment investigations conducted by the Agency Field Offices (FO) and rendering appropriate adjudication recommendations regarding the same. Act as the technical expert in one or more security programs, serve as an assistant to a program manager and provide expert advice and assistance in formulating and implementing policies and procedures.
• Prepare in - depth summaries of data obtained and determined to be pertinent or relevant to a case at hand and compose necessary correspondence to appropriate FO(s) for initiation of an investigation. Provide detailed outlines of background of individual case and information developed from extensive initial research and of the subsequent analysis of same. Define security vulnerabilities, set forth specific recommendations for the initiation of investigations, recommend lea