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(623) Integrated Vetting / Personnel Security Policy SME Arlington, VA Apply Company Summary Arlo Solutions (Arlo) is an information technology consulting services company that specializes in delivering technology solutions. Our reputation reflects the high quality of the talented Arlo Solutions team and the consultants working in partnership with our customers. Our mission is to understand and meet the needs of both our customers and consultants by delivering quality, value-added solutions. Our solutions are designed and managed to not only reduce costs, but to improve business processes, accelerate response time, improve services to end-users, and give our customers a competitive edge, now and into the future.  Position Description:  In this role you will develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting to include background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD vetting cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries, per annum with complete staffing packets and associated briefing materials, to include visual presentations.  * Coordinate policy memorandums/DoD issuances. This includes creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures.  * Provide support on strategies, initiatives, and oversight to overhaul and improve personnel security processes and performance to include the review, evaluation, and oversight of personnel vetting information technology systems, research and innovation initiatives.  * Organize, plan, and execute personnel vetting projects while working within scheduling restraints. This includes leading or participating in DoD working groups such as Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0, Defense Security Enterprise, Defense Intelligence Enterprise.  * Manage or support logistical and administrative structuring, scheduling, conducting, and reporting of engagements to include development and coordination of associated read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free.  * Conduct staff actions, including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, crisply convey complicated or nuanced topics in writing or orally, and provides draft packages that comply with DoD correspondence standards, are grammatically and typographically error-free.  * Recommend changes in writing via information, issue, vision or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership on security programs and policy consistent with oversight assessment findings, identified vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs.  * Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues in the areas of physical, personnel, industrial, and information security as they affect DoD’s ability to mitigate external and insider threats and assess and manage risk. This includes leading or participating in various meetings or working groups.  * Advise senior DoD leadership on potential issues or roadblocks affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight.  * Develop a recommended position, in writing via information, issue, vision, or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership, ensuring technology and policy solutions follow applicable laws, regulations, principals and standards.  * Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies and prepares associated papers to inform decisions on policy, strategy, budget, and communication. Research findings will be produced in writing in the form of an applicable paper (per above) and will include, associated visual briefing materials. Location:  Onsite (Arlington, VA / Pentagon) Clearance:  Active TS/SCI Responsibilities and/or Success Factors: * Develop, revise, review, communicate, and coordinate policies pertaining to personnel vetting to include background investigations, adjudications, and continuous evaluation of individuals under DoD vetting cognizance. This includes developing up to 40 policy memorandums or responses to Congressional/Public queries, per annum with complete staffing packets and associated briefing materials, to include visual presentations.  * Coordinate policy memorandums/DoD issuances. This includes creation, maintenance, updating, and coordination of associated read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free and require little editing in accordance with directorate procedures.  * Provide support on strategies, initiatives, and oversight to overhaul and improve personnel security processes and performance to include the review, evaluation, and oversight of personnel vetting information technology systems, research and innovation initiatives.  * Organize, plan, and execute personnel vetting projects while working within scheduling restraints. This includes leading or participating in DoD working groups such as Suicide Prevention, Portfolio Performance, Trusted Workforce 2.0, Defense Security Enterprise, Defense Intelligence Enterprise.  * Manage or support logistical and administrative structuring, scheduling, conducting, and reporting of engagements to include development and coordination of associated read-ahead packages that are grammatically and typographically error-free.  * Conduct staff actions, including Correspondence and Task Management System administration, crisply convey complicated or nuanced topics in writing or orally, and provides draft packages that comply with DoD correspondence standards, are grammatically and typographically error-free.  * Recommend changes in writing via information, issue, vision or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership on security programs and policy consistent with oversight assessment findings, identified vulnerabilities, and anticipated needs.  * Coordinate within CL&S to ensure optimal cross-functional integration of key security policy issues in the areas of physical, personnel, industrial, and information security as they affect DoD’s ability to mitigate external and insider threats and assess and manage risk. This includes leading or participating in various meetings or working groups.  * Advise senior DoD leadership on potential issues or roadblocks affecting DoD personnel and security policy and oversight.  * Develop a recommended position, in writing via information, issue, vision, or white papers or orally through formal or informal engagements with leadership, ensuring technology and policy solutions follow applicable laws, regulations, principals and standards.  * Conduct research on laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Federal and DoD policies and prepares associated papers to inform decisions on policy, strategy, budget, and communication. Research findings will be produced in writing in the form of an applicable paper (per above) and will include, associated visual briefing materials. Minimum Qualifications Including Certificates: * Active TS/SCI Clearance * 5-7 years of security policy or operational experience as a staff action officer on an OSD, JCS, or Military Department headquarters staff.  * 5 years of experience working with DoD, Intelligence Community, and national-level personnel security policies and procedures.  * Knowledge of the DoD's personnel security functions to include personnel security manager responsibilities, investigations, and adjudication policies. * Demonstrated expert proficiency in policy development; drafting, formatting, tracking, staffing, reviewing and reconciling inputs to DoD Directive(s), Instruction(s), Manual(s) and other publications; as well as conducting critical review of other entities’ policy documents to ensure personnel security equities are accurately reflected.  * Experience developing, updating, and coordinating personnel security policy and providing policy interpretations and policy guidance.  * Experience coordinating effectively with the DoD services, Agencies, and Field Activities to resolve complex personnel security policy issues. AAP Statement We are proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, we evaluate qualified candidates in full consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other protected status.