Personnel Security Specialist

Join our team as a Personnel Security Specialist, responsible for reviewing and evaluating personnel security cases and making critical eligibility determinations.

• *Key Responsibilities & Qualifications by Grade Level:**
• *GS-9 Qualifications:**
• **Experience:** One year of specialized experience at the GS-07 level, including:

* Reviewing personnel security documents for accuracy and completeness. * Verifying previous background investigations. * Collaborating with applicants to obtain missing information for suitability paperwork. * Assisting with suitability/security clearance reviews and recommendations. * Responding to personnel security information requests or assistance. * Researching personnel security guidelines, policies, and procedures.

• **Education:** A master's or equivalent graduate degree, two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education, or an LL.B/J.D.
• **Combination:** A combination of qualifying experience and graduate education.
• *GS-11 Qualifications:**
• **Experience:** One year of specialized experience at the GS-09 level, including:

* Reviewing personnel security questionnaires for completeness and accuracy, resolving discrepancies. * Identifying and summarizing issues impacting credentialing, fitness, suitability, and/or national security eligibility determinations. * Making recommendations related to credentialing, fitness, suitability, and/or national security eligibility determinations.

• **Education:** A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education, or an LL.M.
• **Combination:** A combination of qualifying experience and graduate education.
• *GS-12 Qualifications:**
• **Experience:** One year of specialized experience at the GS-11 level, including:

* Applying broad understanding of personnel security regulations across multiple determination types (e.g., credentialing, fitness, suitability, national security eligibility). * Obtaining sufficient evidence to support personnel security determinations. * Making recommendations and decisions related to credentialing, fitness, suitability, and/or national security eligibility. * Relaying adjudication and/or background investigation information to junior staff.

• *GS-13 Qualifications:**
• **Experience:** One year of specialized experience at the GS-12 level, including:

* Reviewing, evaluating, and making determinations for complex personnel security cases, ensuring compliance with federal regulations. * Providing expert guidance on credentialing, fitness, suitability, and/or national security eligibility for case preparation efforts. * Preparing complex written correspondence, reports, and/or briefings related to personnel security for broad audiences. * Developing and providing training to junior staff members and/or other agency personnel.

• All education must be from an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for the work.*