Hybrid Senior Program Protection Specialist, DoD (Active Top Secret Clearance) - LARC Staffing, LLC

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Client is a Government Services Prime

Our DoD Government Services client is seeking a Senior Program Protection Specialist with a Current/Active DoD Top Secret-level security clearance with the ability to obtain/maintain SCI to support them and their government customer in Falls Church, VA.

They offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and a 150K-170K annual salary range,.

This Government Services prime currently has an opening for a Senior Program Protection Specialist for the Department of Defense Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO).  We are seeking an experienced Senior Program Protection Specialist focused on the identification and protection of Critical Program Information (CPI) and analysis and development of Program Protection Plans and associated risk mitigation strategies and solutions to ensure capabilities fielded and in development are effectively uncompromised and adversary efforts to Reverse Engineer (RE), exploit, or develop countermeasures against are denied and deterred, imposing significant cost. This position requires the ability to creatively apply program protection principles and methods to rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology and capabilities.

Responsibilities: 

• Serve as a senior staff advisor to the Chief, Special Projects for the CDAO on matters of intelligence informing CDAO strategies and activities, as well as counterintelligence and security functions to safeguard CDAO information, technology and assets.
• Provide direct support to the drafting and coordination of CDAO policy and guidance to the department on AI, data, and associated technology protection principles and practices.
• Assist in assessing, defining, developing, and implementing Systems Security Engineering (SSE) requirements, including assessing security provisions in technical reviews, specifications, engineering and test plans, designs, program deployment actions, SOOs, SOWs, RFPs, and other acquisition and engineering plans and documents
• Assist with authoring and maintaining Program Protection Plan (PPPs) and related Critical Program Information (CPI) pertaining to CDAO Programs and Projects. This includes PPP preparation guide, CPI determination matrix, risk assessments, manuals, and analysis tools such CPI and component analysis and checklists
• Provide direct support to the Program Protection Team Lead on the authoring and maintenance of Security Classification Guides (SCG)in accordance with DoD policies, providing clear and effective guidance to the workforce on derivative classification, as well as advice to the Original Classification Authority
• Coordinate and integrate execution of directorate requirements and taskings and develop, execute, document, and assist in the management of key Operations and Enterprise core functions, tasks and processes, including security review for materials intended for public release.
• Coordinate, integrate, arrange, conduct, and assist in the management of day-to-day directorate support functions and mission requirements.
• Devise and help implement innovative Program Protection strategies to secure sensitive technologies and capabilities.
• Perform, or support, security inspections, identify security discrepancies and prepare reports

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience within the DoD or IC, ideally related to the management, oversight, planning, directing, and/or execution of a program executive office specific to a security function or an intelligence mission in any of the following disciplines: Human Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Signals Intelligence, Cyber Network Exploitation.
• Previous experience in the implementation and measures of performance of various active/passive program security and counterintelligence measures, practices, and postures.
• Possess excellent research and data-gathering skills with an ability to interpret/analyze complex information within operational Research & Development (R&D) / Science & Technology (S&T) environments
• Possess excellent organizational and communication skills; demonstrating an ability to communicate, interact easily and effectively with a wide variety of individuals and echelons in both written and verbal forms
• Previous experience authoring and delivering high-level briefings with strong written and oral communication skills to DoD/IC senior staff and executives.
• Previous experience authoring or editing DoD issuances including Directives and Instructions.
• Previous experience authoring or editing Program Protection Plans and Security Classification Guides.
• Broad knowledge of intelligence, counterintelligence, and security policies, principles, and procedures, including those for collateral and Sensitive Compartmented Information missions and functions.
• Desired Skills
• Broad understanding of the pacing threats posed from principal adversaries as it relates to Great Power Competition in AI, Data and Analytics.
• Ability to rapidly understand and apply new concepts.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with impeccable multi-tasking abilities.
• Advanced MS Word skills; proficient PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook application skills.

Desired:

• Broad understanding of the pacing threats posed from principal adversaries as it relates to Great Power Competition in AI, Data and Analytics.
• Ability to rapidly understand and apply new concepts.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with impeccable multi-tasking abilities.
• Advanced MS Word skills; proficient PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook application skills.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field 

Security Pre-Requisite:  

• To be considered, you must have a CURRENT/ACTIVE TS/SCI-level security clearance.

Office Location and Travel:

• Falls Church, VA (partial Telework eligible)
• Some travel (<25%)

Working Environment & Conditions

This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate.  This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. 

This position is primarily indoors, consistent with a standard office position and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. The incumbent is required to stand, walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The workload may require the incumbent to sit for extended periods of time. The incumbent must be able to read, do simple math calculations and withstand moderate amounts of stress.

The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  

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