Contractor Special Security Representative (CSSR)

Summary

Position Description:

The Contractor Special Security Representative (SSR) shall provide comprehensive, proactive security support to U.S. Army Central (ARCENT), ensuring the protection of classified information, personnel, facilities, and mission-critical operations. The SSR will serve as a trusted security advisor and principal contractor liaison to ARCENT security leadership, ensuring continuous compliance with applicable DoD, Army, DCSA, NISPOM, and command-specific security requirements.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute a proactive security program that protects classified information, personnel, facilities, and operational activities while minimizing security risk to the ARCENT mission.
• Serve as the primary contractor security liaison with ARCENT security leadership, Government Security Office personnel, Facility Security Officers (FSOs), DCSA, and other authorized security organizations.
• Manage and monitor personnel security requirements for contractor personnel, including clearance status, eligibility, access, indoctrination, debriefing, reinvestigation requirements, and security-related administrative actions.
• Maintain continuous accountability of personnel with classified access, ensuring access is granted only to appropriately cleared personnel with a validated need-to-know.
• Administer security education and training programs, including initial security briefings, annual/refresher training, specialized security briefings, and termination/debriefing requirements.
• Enforce classified information protection requirements, ensuring classified material is properly received, controlled, stored, accessed, transmitted, accounted for, and destroyed in accordance with applicable policy and established command procedures.
• Identify, assess, document, and promptly report security incidents and potential security violations, ensuring appropriate notifications, documentation, mitigation, and corrective actions are completed.
• Conduct continuous security compliance monitoring and assist leadership in identifying vulnerabilities, security deficiencies, trends, and areas requiring corrective action.
• Support Government and DCSA security inspections, reviews, assessments, and self-inspections by preparing documentation, coordinating personnel, tracking findings, and facilitating timely corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain security trackers, databases, rosters, reports, and compliance documentation necessary to provide leadership with accurate and timely visibility of the organization's security posture.
• Support classified meetings, conferences, exercises, operational events, and command activities, ensuring security requirements are established and enforced before, during, and after each event.
• Coordinate security requirements for personnel movements, visits, temporary duty assignments, deployments, and other mission activities involving classified information or access.
• Provide immediate, authoritative security guidance to personnel and leadership regarding classified information handling, reporting requirements, security vulnerabilities, and risk mitigation.
• Conduct security risk assessments and recommend corrective measures to reduce the potential for unauthorized disclosure, compromise, or loss of classified information.
• Establish and maintain a culture of security awareness and accountability, reinforcing individual responsibility for protecting classified information and reporting security concerns.
• Track and close security deficiencies and corrective actions, ensuring identified vulnerabilities are addressed within established timelines and do not adversely affect mission execution.
• Provide recurring security status reporting to ARCENT leadership, highlighting compliance metrics, outstanding actions, security risks, incidents, trends, and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Support continuity of security operations during exercises, contingency operations, organizational transitions, and periods of increased operational tempo, ensuring security requirements remain fully integrated with mission execution.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience: 8-10 Years

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Clearance: Secret

Job Description

Position Description:

The Contractor Special Security Representative (SSR) shall provide comprehensive, proactive security support to U.S. Army Central (ARCENT), ensuring the protection of classified information, personnel, facilities, and mission-critical operations. The SSR will serve as a trusted security advisor and principal contractor liaison to ARCENT security leadership, ensuring continuous compliance with applicable DoD, Army, DCSA, NISPOM, and command-specific security requirements.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute a proactive security program that protects classified information, personnel, facilities, and operational activities while minimizing security risk to the ARCENT mission.
• Serve as the primary contractor security liaison with ARCENT security leadership, Government Security Office personnel, Facility Security Officers (FSOs), DCSA, and other authorized security organizations.
• Manage and monitor personnel security requirements for contractor personnel, including clearance status, eligibility, access, indoctrination, debriefing, reinvestigation requirements, and security-related administrative actions.
• Maintain continuous accountability of personnel with classified access, ensuring access is granted only to appropriately cleared personnel with a validated need-to-know.
• Administer security education and training programs, including initial security briefings, annual/refresher training, specialized security briefings, and termination/debriefing requirements.
• Enforce classified information protection requirements, ensuring classified material is properly received, controlled, stored, accessed, transmitted, accounted for, and destroyed in accordance with applicable policy and established command procedures.
• Identify, assess, document, and promptly report security incidents and potential security violations, ensuring appropriate notifications, documentation, mitigation, and corrective actions are completed.
• Conduct continuous security compliance monitoring and assist leadership in identifying vulnerabilities, security deficiencies, trends, and areas requiring corrective action.
• Support Government and DCSA security inspections, reviews, assessments, and self-inspections by preparing documentation, coordinating personnel, tracking findings, and facilitating timely corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain security trackers, databases, rosters, reports, and compliance documentation necessary to provide leadership with accurate and timely visibility of the organization's security posture.
• Support classified meetings, conferences, exercises, operational events, and command activities, ensuring security requirements are established and enforced before, during, and after each event.
• Coordinate security requirements for personnel movements, visits, temporary duty assignments, deployments, and other mission activities involving classified information or access.
• Provide immediate, authoritative security guidance to personnel and leadership regarding classified information handling, reporting requirements, security vulnerabilities, and risk mitigation.
• Conduct security risk assessments and recommend corrective measures to reduce the potential for unauthorized disclosure, compromise, or loss of classified information.
• Establish and maintain a culture of security awareness and accountability, reinforcing individual responsibility for protecting classified information and reporting security concerns.
• Track and close security deficiencies and corrective actions, ensuring identified vulnerabilities are addressed within established timelines and do not adversely affect mission execution.
• Provide recurring security status reporting to ARCENT leadership, highlighting compliance metrics, outstanding actions, security risks, incidents, trends, and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Support continuity of security operations during exercises, contingency operations, organizational transitions, and periods of increased operational tempo, ensuring security requirements remain fully integrated with mission execution.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience: 8-10 Years

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Clearance: Secret