Security Program Analyst

MELE Associates has more than 25 years of continued growth supporting federal, state, and local government clients. Headquartered in Rockville, MD with more than 200 employees across the country, MELE offers an excellent benefit package (some of the best you can find in government contracting), including 100% employer-paid health coverage for full-time employees, and an exciting social environment.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Security Program Analyst positions will be supporting The Department of Energy (DOE) / National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Stockpile Sustainment (NA-122) mission with technical, liaison, and analytical support services. The role requires the candidates to be efficient, pay close attention to detail, and work well with different personnel from other offices and agencies. The full-time position require experience in programmatic support, particularly in a nuclear security environment. This is a hybrid position, offering both remote and onsite work.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
The primary purpose of the position is to provide technical and analytical support for NA-122, supporting various tasks involved in nuclear weapons surety and quality support, weapons data access control, and protection of use control vulnerabilities and designs. The Security Program Analyst shall have excellent programmatic skills and be problem solvers. Essential duties include:

• Prepare program plans, schedules, and milestones. Communicate regularly with field program managers, organize program reviews, prepare notes from program reviews, prepare annual program certifications, prepare congressional briefings, and support technical management of the projects using standard project management techniques.
• Support NNSA in the preparation of technical correspondence and briefings regarding NWD, Use Control projects, and review technical aspects of the program to determine project performance toward meeting cost and schedule goals.
• Provide technical, programmatic, security, policy, and analytical inputs in support of revisions of surety directives (for example, orders, standards, policy letters).
• Coordinate system designs, improvements, and operating procedures for the implementation of the tracking database, records management systems.
• Provide unclassified and classified support performing development, tracking, maintaining an effective and efficient tracking system to ensure all individuals who are granted sigma access are documented accurately and per policy requirements.
• Review and process all incoming sigma access requests. Ensure request documentation is accurate and holds a valid justification. Make recommendations to federal management for approval or disapproval of access request. These reviews are to be in compliance with current applicable policy and procedures.
• Provide assistance and guidance to a variety of customers regarding the current sigma access requirements that must be completed and submitted for sigma access approval.
• Provide guidance to field personnel requiring access to the current tracking database, on how to implement and effectively operate the systems.
• Process visits involving disclosure of classified data by DOE or contractor personnel to appropriately cleared and approved foreign national visitors. This involves coordinating visits of British citizens to the U.S. and U.S. citizens to the U.K. with the British embassy.
• Review and maintain personnel access rosters and material/information accountability systems for the Use Control access and NWD access programs.
• Manage and track the completion of training for all personnel granted Sigma 14 and/or 15 access.
• Act as a liaison for the Department with DoD on matters relating to request for access to Sigma 14 and/or Sigma 15 by DoD personnel.
• Provide security services for Sigma 14 and/or Sigma 15, use control assessments, and other NA-122 surety related programs/projects throughout the applicable community to ensure compliance of Atomic Energy Act, DOE/NNSA policies and internal site procedures.
• Provide technical support to the Defense Programs Surety Committee or its successors.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements/Skills:

• A high school diploma.
• 3-5 years of experience in a federal government environment with similar missions.
• An active DOE Q or DOD Top-Secret security clearance.
• Highly effective communication skills (written and oral), effective work in fluid, fast-paced environment, essential teamwork skills, detail-oriented.

Preferred Requirements/Skills:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, management, public policy or related field.
• 6-10 years of experience in a federal government environment with similar missions.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)