Senior Special Programs Security Manager (CSSO/CPSO)

Lead SCI and SAP security operations across the program lifecycle, including access administration, indoctrinations and debriefings, security plans, classification requirements, incident reporting, inspections, and program closeout.

Serve as the designated CSSO, CPSO, or equivalent program security official for assigned government customers and classified programs.

Build and maintain trusted relationships with Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers, government security officers, program security officers, and other external security stakeholders.

Oversee the establishment, accreditation, operation, modification, and inspection readiness of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and Special Access Program Facilities.

Translate government regulations, contract requirements, DD Forms 254, security classification guides, and customer direction into practical policies, procedures, and operating decisions.

Coordinate closely with personnel security, information systems security, classified IT, Facilities, Legal, and program teams to establish clear ownership and integrated safeguards.

Lead self-inspections, security inquiries, corrective actions, customer assessments, and escalation of risks that could affect access, accreditation, or program execution.

Advise Industrial Security leadership, independently represent the security function, and provide operational continuity across critical programs and customer relationships.

Mentor and develop special programs security personnel while establishing the staffing, metrics, governance, and operating rhythms needed to support continued growth.

Enable classified work through risk-informed decisions while maintaining the judgment and authority to stop or escalate activity that would violate security requirements.

Have substantial experience leading contractor security for SCI and SAP programs, including direct experience as a CSSO, CPSO, CSPSO, SSO, or comparable customer-designated security official.

Understand how Intelligence Community customers operate, including sponsor relationships, access processes, reciprocity, customer-specific requirements, and appropriate escalation channels.

Have strong working knowledge of the NISPOM, ICDs 703, 704, and 705, Intelligence Community technical specifications for SCIFs, DoDM 5205.07, applicable Security Executive Agent Directives, and related customer guidance.

Have established, accredited, operated, or modified SCIFs or SAPFs and can coordinate facility, physical security, information security, and technical accreditation requirements.

Have successfully managed government customer relationships and can communicate clearly with security officials, technical teams, program leaders, and senior executives.

Have led security inspections, customer reviews, incident response, corrective actions, and closure of complex compliance findings.

Exercise strong judgment under pressure and can distinguish between requirements that can be addressed creatively and boundaries that cannot be crossed.

Enjoy building teams, improving operating models, clarifying ownership, and creating durable processes in fast-moving environments, and are eager to use approved AI tools, agents, and automations to reduce administrative burden, improve visibility, and scale sound judgment without replacing sponsor approvals, security authority, or required human review.

Hold active Top Secret eligibility and current SCI access with a current counterintelligence polygraph, and can obtain and maintain a full-scope polygraph or other customer-required access.

Bring additional experience across multiple Intelligence Community or SAP customers, industrial security program buildouts, COMSEC, insider threat, or related security leadership disciplines.

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