Job Title: Security Analyst

Duration: 2+ years

Client: Defense Research Lab

Location: Lexington, MA

Background/Need: The overall mission is to identify and counter security threats to the Laboratory’s mission of development of game-changing technology in support of national security, including guarding against compromise by foreign intelligence agencies and insider threats.

Responsibilities:

• Physical Security: Oversees facility access control, any construction and renovation, drafting and implementation of construction security plans.

• Materials Control & Accountability: Manages creation, movement and destruction of classified material and digital media.

• Personnel Security: Facilitates indoctrinations and debriefings, personnel file maintenance, manages reporting requirements, incoming and outgoing external visits.

• Security Education, Training and Awareness: Conducts annual training, facility access training, Operations Security (OPSEC) awareness.

• Risk Management: Investigates and documents security incidents, develops and manages corrective actions.

• Emergency Action Planning: Ensures compliance with operational security and emergency action plans.

Requirements:

• Security compliance experience: Minimum 3 years of experience as a Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO), Contractor Special Security Officer (CSSO), Top Secret Control Officer (TSCO), or Program Security Officer (PSO).

• Regulatory compliance experience: The ability to read, understand and apply government regulation, policies, and procedure (DoD SAP/SCI Community and Intelligence Community directives and manuals, NISPOM 32 CFR Part 117, applicable ICDs, etc.).

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or minimum of 3 years of work experience.

• Computer skills: Familiarity with security management software, such as SIMS and government databases such as DISS (Defense Information Security System). Knowledge of business software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Office, etc.

• Active a Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

• Active SCI access, or previous SCI access that was active within the previous 18 months

• Successfully adjudicated counterintelligence scope polygraph, adjudicated within the previous 4 years

• Consent to undergoing a government polygraph examination.

• Onsite 100% of the time for this role

• Interview process: one round zoom interview with the hiring team

• Candidate should be flexible and comfortable responding to off-hours emergencies and local/overnight travel as needed (infrequent, but a possibility).