Program Security Analyst (5512)

SMX is seeking an extremely detail oriented and diligent analyst to provide comprehensive support for a project centered around secure financials. The ideal candidate would be comfortable with executing the processes for all aspects of Personnel Security. The ideal candidate should also be comfortable working with a multi-disciplinary team to create, author, and brief repeatable frameworks and analyses focused on providing insights into potential vulnerabilities, stakeholder requirements, and necessary evolutions to a client’s portfolio with the goal of identifying, understanding, mitigating different types of risks.   They should be capable of working independently to ensure both processes and projects run smoothly while also collaborating with a government and contractor team. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset, willing to own the processes and projects for which they have responsibility, understand the context in which they operate, and advocate for improvements.

Responsibilities

The candidate will assist the team by providing comprehensive support in all aspects of Personnel Security to include:

• Managing visitor and resident access control and badging
• Providing administrative/business process support for processing Program Access requests
• Delivering applicable security education and training for employees
• Providing technical and planning support for SAP security meetings and other events, including coordination of the meetings, visit access requests, drafting meeting agendas, slide decks and talking points. It will also include setup, attendance tracking, operation of VTC equipment, taking meeting notes, recording tracking action items, finalizing and distributing minutes
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to help create, implement, refine, and disseminate mixed-method frameworks and approaches
• Update or create required documentation (e.g., policies, security classification guides)  to achieve outcomes
• Independently facilitate workshops, meetings, and trainings across the lifecycle of a project
• Provide briefings on projects, processes, and analyses as required
• Translate client gaps, needs, and questions into cohesive projects, tasks, timelines, and deliverables
• Serve as a liaison to subject matter experts across highly diverse mission fields
• Provide advice and recommendations to client leadership and other cross-organizational management

Required Skills & Experience 

• Extremely detail oriented. They will need to run security processes end-to-end, noting key details, extracting next tasks, and identifying gaps in datasets
• Able to work independently to pull together security reports and briefings along with other deliverables, drawing from disparate meetings, emails, documents, etc. The deliverables they produce will be expected to go directly for senior review
• Able to demonstrate a capability-building mindset. They will be building a security capability from the ground up
• Customer service oriented and an excellent communicator in multiple formats (writing, verbal, etc)
• Familiar with SAPCO - Army SAPCO ideal
• Demonstrated stakeholder management experience
• Wargaming and analysis
• Task leadership experience

Desired Skills & Experience 

• Finance and PPBE familiarity
• Knowledge of secure business operational activities

 

 

The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning & development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.

The proposed salary for this position is: