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Marathon TS is looking for a Personnel Vetting Support Specialist to support our efforts at DoD. Key Responsibilities * * Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting, including background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries annually, complete with staffing packets and briefing materials (including visual presentations). * Coordinate approximately 100 policy memorandums/DoD issuances annually. This includes the creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages, ensuring grammatical and typographical accuracy. * Support strategies, initiatives, and oversight to improve personnel security processes and performance. This includes reviewing, evaluating, and overseeing personnel vetting IT systems, research, and innovation initiatives, providing approximately 20 visual and oral presentations annually, participating in working groups, and communicating with stakeholders. * Organize, plan, and execute approximately 10 personnel vetting projects annually, working within scheduling constraints. This involves leading or participating in DoD working groups (e.g., Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0). * Manage or support logistical and administrative aspects of engagements (approximately 5 per month), including developing grammatically correct and typographically error-free read-ahead packages. * Conduct staff actions (up to 100 annually), including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, ensuring clear communication of complex topics and adherence to DoD correspondence standards. * Recommend policy changes (approximately 50 papers annually) in writing (information, issue, vision, or white papers) or orally, based on oversight assessments, vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs. * Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues (physical, personnel, industrial, and information security), mitigating threats and managing risk (participation in approximately 15 meetings/working groups annually). * Advise the Director, Insider Threat & Personnel Security, and other senior DoD leadership on potential issues affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight (approximately 15 recommendations annually). * Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies (approximately 15 projects annually), producing research papers (with associated visual briefing materials) that are grammatically and typographically error-free. Required Experience/Clearance * * Active TS/SCI Clearance. * Bachelor's degree from an accredited university. * Ten (10) years of demonstrated knowledge of national and DoD information security policies and procedures. * Five (5) years of experience developing and coordinating policies for OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff related to personnel vetting (background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation). * Proficiency in Trusted Workforce 2.0. Desired Experience * * Security Professional Education Department (SPED) certification. * Experience with DataBricks, GitLab, or Jira. * Experience with large-scale IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall). * Advanced knowledge of DoD acquisition processes. Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status"). #CJJOBS

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