Security Manager

Type: Full Time
Location: Falls Church, VA
Overtime Exempt: Yes
Reports To: ARMADA HQ
Security Clearance Required: Secret
Contingent Upon Award

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide policy support and technical guidance for personnel, information, and industrial security.
• Facilitate development of enterprise procedures to conduct full criminal history checks on staff (Childcare Background Checks) from initiation to adjudication, including due process.
• Assist in the development of a database to track all staff requiring a CBC, annual recertification and 5‑year renewal.
• Submit monthly summary reports of investigations via the monthly program performance summary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

• Knowledge of personnel, information, and industrial security policies within federal or DoD environments.
• Familiarity with DoD childcare suitability or screening policies.
• Advanced knowledge of DoD interagency coordination, policy development, and action officer responsibilities.
• Strong database management and reporting skills.
• Ability to coordinate meeting minutes, action tracking, and partner engagement documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Experience

• History of developing security policy and managing compliance programs.
• Expertise in DoD/OPM suitability adjudication.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and revising policies, SOPs, CONOPS, and implementation plans.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Emergency Management, Security Studies, Public Policy, Information Security, or related discipline) with a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience, or alternatively 10 years of progressively responsible experience in lieu of a degree.
• Successful completion of a Federal Coordinating Center (FCC) Course within the last 3 years.
• Completion of OPM Fundamentals of Suitability for Suitability and Fitness Adjudicators course.

Disclaimer

The above information is intended to indicate the general nature and level of work to be performed and is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required.