Security Specialist - International
AMERICAN SYSTEMS · Arlington, VA, US ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Test & Evaluation, and Training.
Responsibilities
As the Security Specialist - International, you will:
- Coordinate security requirements associated with foreign participation, international visits, partner engagement, and classified activities in multinational environments.
- Apply access, facility, information-protection, and compartmented-environment controls while enabling authorized collaboration with external partners.
- Work across Government, contractor, disclosure, export, visitor-control, and operational stakeholders to plan engagements, document requirements, resolve issues, and protect sensitive information throughout international interactions.
- By integrating international mission needs with disciplined security procedures, the Security Specialist International supports effective partner activity without weakening need-to-know, releasability, access, or secure-facility protections.
- Maintain records and guidance needed for consistent execution across recurring and high-visibility international events.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Coordinate security planning for foreign participation, international visits, meetings, technical exchanges, and partner-facing activities.
- Apply access, need-to-know, releasability, escort, and secure-environment requirements to international engagements.
- Integrate actions with foreign-disclosure, export-compliance, visitor-control, physical-security, and operational stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain international-security procedures, visit documentation, access records, coordination packages, and tracking tools.
- Assess security implications of proposed partner activities and recommend controls that enable authorized collaboration.
- Brief Government and contractor stakeholders on protection requirements, responsibilities, restrictions, and approved procedures.
- Monitor international-security actions and resolve coordination issues that could affect mission schedules or sensitive information.
- Support reviews and assessments of multinational activities to confirm consistent application of approved protections.
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Qualifications
- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a relevant discipline and 10 years of directly relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline plus 14 years of directly related work experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of DoDM 5205.07 Volumes Demonstrated knowledge of Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 705.
- Experience must include support to Special Access Program and Sensitive Compartmented Information environments
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively across Government, contractor, and external stakeholders; prepare briefings, reports, standard operating procedures, and official correspondence; and lead a team in fast paced classified environments.
- CLEARANCE: Active Secret clearance; must be able to meet any applicable Special Access Program eligibility requirements identified by the Government.