Position Title: Senior Personnel Security (PERSEC) Analyst Position Type: Full-time, On-site Location: Suffolk Building, Falls Church, VA Clearance: Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility
Position Summary Waypoint’s client is seeking a Senior Personnel Security Analyst to provide personnel security administration and executive-level security support in a complex, fast-paced classified environment. The selected candidate will manage clearance, access, indoctrination, and personnel security processes in accordance with Department of Defense and Intelligence Community policies.
Duties and Responsibilities
Process personnel security actions for civilian, military, contractor, IPA, and detailed personnel.
Verify clearance eligibility, access, and investigation status using DISS and other authorized security databases.
Process clearance passing, visit authorization requests, CAC applications, and building access requests.
Conduct security in-processing, out-processing, indoctrinations, debriefings, and SCI access support.
Provide guidance regarding clearance eligibility, reporting requirements, foreign travel, adverse information, and continuous vetting responsibilities.
Maintain accurate personnel security records, files, access rosters, and supporting documentation.
Coordinate with security managers, government leadership, human resources, contracting personnel, and external security offices.
Research and resolve complex clearance, access, and personnel security issues.
Prepare reports, correspondence, briefings, and status updates for executive-level stakeholders.
Ensure compliance with DoDI 5200.02, ICD 704, SEAD requirements, and applicable DoD and Intelligence Community policies.
Required Experience
Minimum of ten years of recent and relevant personnel security, security administration, or related DoD/IC security experience.
Demonstrated experience supporting executive-level principals in a high-tempo environment.
Hands-on experience using DISS and processing clearance, access, indoctrination, and personnel security actions.
Experience supporting SCI programs and classified personnel security operations.
Working knowledge of DoD and Intelligence Community personnel security regulations and adjudicative processes.
Strong written communication, organization, customer service, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage sensitive information and multiple competing priorities with limited supervision.
Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
Desired Skills
Experience supporting senior DoD, Intelligence Community, or executive-level organizations.
Familiarity with continuous vetting, Trusted Workforce requirements, and Security Executive Agent Directives.
Experience with SCI nominations, indoctrinations, access certifications, and clearance reciprocity.
Knowledge of CAC, visit authorization, foreign travel, incident reporting, and adverse information procedures.
Experience developing personnel security metrics, reports, standard operating procedures, and training materials.
Familiarity with industrial security, information security, or physical security processes.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Virginia
Skills
Adjudicationunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Defense Intelligenceunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Executive Assistant Skills unmatched
Governmentunmatched
Human Resourcesunmatched
Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
Integrated Circuits (ICs)unmatched
Intelligence Communityunmatched
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)unmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Militaryunmatched
Multitaskingunmatched
People Managementunmatched
Physical Securityunmatched
Prepare Correspondenceunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Regulationsunmatched
Reporting Skillsunmatched
Security Analysisunmatched
Security Monitoringunmatched
Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)unmatched
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
Willing to Travelunmatched
Workplace Issuesunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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