Personnel Security Specialist - Mid with Security Clearance

Job Description Position Title: Personnel Security Specialist - Mid Reports To: Program Manager Clearance Type: Active Top Secret/SCI (willing to take CI Poly) Work Location: Huntsville, Alabama Start Date: On Contract Award Job Description: Advantage SCI is accepting applications to support a federal agency personnel security program. Summary of duties include but not limited to: * Provides critical thinking and analysis for written documentation and oral presentations. * Reviews and analyzes requests for investigations concerning security clearances, reciprocity, requirements, violations, and assessments. * Reviews and analyzes various agency investigative files and related material to determine and extract all possible identifying information, matching records, questionable or overlapping elements and other areas of investigative consideration. * Examines and analyzes material to determine any deliberate misrepresentation of facts, which furnish reason to sustain suspicion that the subject may be a possible security risk. * Conducts PSIs as determined during a security investigation, in conjunction with information developed. * Prepares a detailed analysis of all information developed, supporting analysis and recommendations to initiate further investigation. * Ensures that all relevant information and justification is developed and properly considered in accordance with security policies and regulations. * Conducts security briefings which include Security Awareness and Hostile Threat. * Assists in conducting preliminary and final reviews of statements of personal history and related data prior to the initiation of background investigation procedures. * Conducts BIs of individuals who would occupy positions where a determination of suitability for employment or access to classified information is required. * Prepares reports on investigations resulting from interviews conducted during BIs. * Drafts summary sheets on the results of investigations for all assigned cases. May also draft a detailed evaluation of the adverse information. * Drafts a list of recommended questions for lines of inquiry for follow - on investigations. * Assists in making recommendations for adjudication of personal BI. * Work assignments include but are not limited to: * Review Personnel Security Questionnaires (SF - 86 and SF - 85P) * Verify information submitted on applications * Contact subjects via approved methods to complete information BI forms * Retrieve data from credit bureaus, request Local Agency Checks, review reports to determine criminal record, traffic violation, etc. * Prepares reports on investigations from interviews conducted during the BI. * Drafts summary sheets on the results of investigations for all assigned cases. * Prioritizes assignments and creates schedules to meet deadlines.