Federal Credentialing & Security Specialist
DoD Healthcare Credentialing, Privileging & Personnel Security
Location: Onsite - Northern VirginiaJob Type: Full-TimeSalary: As per market standardsTravel: Occasional travel to military installations and client sites may be required
About the Role
AIMS is seeking an experienced Federal Credentialing & Security Specialist requiring direct, hands-on experience with federal or DoD healthcare credentialing and personnel-security processing.
Candidates whose experience is limited to commercial hospital credentialing, insurance/payer enrollment, recruiting, general HR, or private healthcare credentialing without DoD/federal experience will not be considered.
Key Responsibilities:
Federal Healthcare Credentialing
- Manage credentialing files for physicians, CRNAs, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and other healthcare personnel.
- Review contract, Performance Work Statement, task-order, and facility-specific credentialing requirements.
- Perform and document Primary Source Verification (PSV) of professional credentials.
- Verify professional licenses, certifications, registrations, education, residency/fellowship training, and board certifications.
- Verify employment history and coordinate employment verification.
- Identify and obtain explanations for employment gaps or inconsistent information.
- Obtain and track professional and clinical peer references.
- Coordinate privileging documentation, including applicable privilege lists, competency documentation, case/procedure logs, and supporting clinical records.
- Verify DEA registration, NPI information, and other professional registrations when applicable.
- Complete or coordinate applicable NPDB, OIG/LEIE, SAM.gov, licensing-board, sanctions, and exclusion checks.
- Track expiring licenses, certifications, registrations, and other time-sensitive credentials.
DoD / Federal Personnel Security:
- Manage personnel-security onboarding requirements for federal healthcare contractors.
- Review security packages for completeness, accuracy, signatures, dates, and consisten
- Follow up with candidates regarding missing, incomplete, inconsistent, or rejected security documentation.
- Coordinate with authorized Government security personnel and internal project leadership.
- Track security processing through Government review and approval.
- Monitor fingerprinting, investigation status, security deficiencies, and pending Government actions.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 2–3 years of direct hands-on DoD, DHA, Military Treatment Facility, or comparable federal healthcare credentialing experience.
- Direct experience with federal personnel-security processing is required.
- Experience performing Primary Source Verification.
- Experience reviewing and preparing federal credentialing and/or privileging packages.
- Familiarity with DoD/DHA credentialing terminology, standards, and workflows.
- Experience with several of the following:
- CCQAS or similar military credentialing systems
- NPDB
- OIG/LEIE
- SAM.gov
- DEA/NPI verification
- OF-306
- SF-85/SF-86
- NBIS/eApp or e-QIP
- Federal fingerprinting
- CAC/base-access processing
- Excellent attention to detail with organizational and time-management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple candidates and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, and electronic document-management skills.
- Current military base access is a plus.
Ideal Candidate should be:
- Extremely detail-oriented and Highly organized
- Persistent with follow-ups and Comfortable managing strict deadlines
- Proactive rather than reactive
- Comfortable holding candidates accountable for missing documentation
- Able to manage a high-volume workload without sacrificing accuracy
Please apply only if you have direct DoD, DHA, military treatment facility, or comparable federal healthcare credentialing and personnel-security experience.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About Us
AIMS Locum Tenens, LLC, d/b/a AIMS Force is a WOSB certified healthcare management company based in Northern Virginia and Washington DC area focus on healthcare management in both public and private sectors.
AIMS Locum Tenens is one of the fastest growing healthcare management solution specialized in management of highly skilled healthcare professionals in both commercial and government healthcare facilities all over the country. We have the experience, resources, and scale required to help physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to take advantage of both short and long term staffing opportunities in a wide variety of practice specialties. We do staff healthcare providers for both short and long-term assignments to local, state and federal government healthcare facilities.
AIMS realizes the key to quality is attention to details. AIMS is the one stop shop for various healthcare facilities and handles every steps to get best candidate from sourcing, recruitment, candidate screening, credentialing, final placement and retention of highly qualified healthcare provider.
As one of the nation’s fastest growing healthcare management companies, AIMS Locum Tenens manages highly qualified physicians and nurses during staffing crisis at community hospitals, clinics and Army based MTFs (Military Treatment Facilities). Hospital systems, MTFs, nursing homes and out patient clinics benefit from our comprehensive, cost-effective supplemental medical staffing services.
Our No. 1 priority is to provide the best service to our healthcare professionals and our hospital and MTFs clients. We welcome feedback and suggestions so we can continually improve our service.
At AIMS Locum Tenens, our core pillars—dedication, commitment, trustworthiness, and superior service—drive every aspect of our business.