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Personnel Security Branch (PSB) administers the Department’s Personnel Security Program and is responsible for Department. Contractor provided services shall support PDSD in investigative and administrative actions need to ensure all personnel who require access to information are efficiently and effectively processed for the appropriate security clearance and/or SCI eligibility prior to granting access to Department information and systems.

The Personnel Security Specialist agrees to provide Department with services associated with the responsibilities listed below. Personnel Security Specialist will ensure that he/ she will abide by all standards, policies and procedures set forth in Department regulations, briefs, and handbooks,PDSD/PSB standard operating procedures, Personnel Investigative Notices, Personnel Investigative Policies and/or other correspondence provided by the PDSD/PSB.

The contractor will be responsible for completing tasks associated with the personnel security program. Personnel Security Specialist contractors will primarily be responsible for: 

a. Analyzing information;

b. Making adjudicative recommendations for suitability and security investigations;

c. Conducting quality assessments to ensure investigative coverage requirements are met;

d. Developing and providing on-the-job training to other contractor personnel;

e. Participating in on-the-job training when new policies and procedures are implemented;

f. Processing, conducting, reviewing and providing services for other various aspects of the Department personnel security program.

g. Performing various administrative tasks to ensure continuity of all Division functions and operations;

h. Updating the Division and/or Branch leadership of ongoing activities and/or issues that may affect operations or be of significance to management; and

i. Other duties as assigned.

Tasks

Contractors shall be assigned tasks as deemed necessary to meet the goals and priorities of the Division. Contractors shall be assigned work through the on-site supervisor, COR and/or technical POC. All tasks shall have the on-site supervisor and/or COR concurrence prior to starting work.

Contractors shall carry credentials authorizing them to perform personnel security functions.

In conjunction with the on-site supervisor, the COR and/or technical POC will monitor the performance of all contractors to ensure they complete tasks and timeliness metrics in accordance with all rules, regulations, and mandates issued by the OPM, ODNI, the DOJ. All performance-related issues and/or concerns will be discussed and addressed with the contractor’s on-site supervisor and/or COR. Due to the continuous and evolving nature of the personnel security sector, a contractor employee’s responsibilities and duties are subject to changes by Federal law, regulation and policy, which may include, but are not limited to, procedural changes related to the use of government equipment, security procedures investigative principles and priorities and time and attendance/hours. Therefore, the Department A and the PDSD reserve the right to modify the contract and accompanied Statement of Work (SOW) without notice.

The contractor must ensure all contractor employees adhere to any new or updated requirements, policies and/or procedures. All changes to requirements, policies and/or procedures will be sent to the contractor from the Department Contracting Officer (CO), COR and/or on-site supervisor.

High quality services and timely completion of tasks are imperative to the success of the PDSD. The company must provide a full range of services, monitor workloads and their employees’ performance to ensure quality and timeliness of services. 

Contractor Qualifications

a. Contractors are required to have experience of either a college degree (bachelors) or four (4) years of general experience, four (4) years of specialized experience within the last five (5) years or one (1) year of specialized Federal background investigative experience. • General experience is defined as progressively responsible experience that demonstrates the ability to problem solve, analyze problems to identify significant factors, gather pertinent data and recognize solutions, plan and organize work and communicate effectively orally and in writing on a professional level.

b. Contractors must be computer literate and efficient in software programs that support email, word processing, and data entry, which are utilized in the administration of the personnel security and information security programs. 

c. All contractors must carry themselves in a manner that reflects positively on Department. To that end, contractors must present themselves in a professional manner, be neatly groomed and appropriately attired. Contractors must promote a positive workplace environment. Contractors must exhibit professional qualities during all periods of performance and absolute integrity is required and expected. Contractors must be polite and professional in both conduct and appearance. 

The Office Management Specialist will work domestically to support the Chief of Staff to provide administrative planning at the executive level. Requires strong computer skills, flexibility, excellent interpersonal skills, project coordination experience, and the ability to work well with all levels of internal management and staff, as well as outside clients and vendors. Sensitivity to confidential matters may be required.
The Bureau has an immediate need to hire an Office Management Specialist to the Chief of Staff to perform administrative planning and implementation services and related duties for 12 months with option years. The purpose of this task order is to provide administrative planning and implementation service and related duties in the Bureau Front Office. The Bureau has an immediate need to hire an Office Management Specialist to the Chief of Staff to perform administrative planning and implementation services and related duties for 12 months with option years.
 Personnel Requirements:
The following sections provide the required duties and responsibilities and skills required to support the requirement(s).
Duties and Responsibilities:
Incumbent assists the Chief of Staff in planning, coordinating, and developing policies and procedures for Front Office operations. The incumbent's responsibilities include scheduling appointments for the Chief of Staff, managing the use Conference Rooms, gathering information per the Chief of Staff request, ordering supplies for Front Office personnel, and participating in the organization of meetings, conferences, and special events sponsored by the Bureau. Responds to numerous document and appointment requests and travel inquiries; prepares announcements for Chief of Staff-led meetings, including weekly Bureau meetings; prepares related documents; and coordinates draft memoranda for the Chief of Staff. This position also requires duties of advising on the potential benefits/uses of tools to improve the efficiency of executive administrative support; evaluating and advising on the organization, methods, and procedures for providing administrative support systems such as records, communications, forms, files, and documentation; develop new or modified administrative procedures and methodology; perform management surveys to determine compliance with agency regulations, procedures and sound management practices.
  Experience and Qualifications
The incumbent must have a minimum of 2 years proving executive level support and 5 years’ experience performing analysis of programs and operations; must have the ability to perform analytical work in an office setting; and skill in written and oral communication as well as understanding of and experience in implementations administrative concepts, principles.  This incumbent must be proficient in the E2 Travel program. This incumbent must adapt policies and procedures to emergency situations.    The position requires good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact in a professional manner with officials in the Department.

The IT Administrator will work on the Corporate IT Support team to assist users and complete internal IT projects.    

Primary Responsibilities:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform daily system monitoring; verify the integrity and availability of all server resources, systems, and key processes; review system and application logs; verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Maintaining, configuring the corporate network (LANs, VLANs, Routers, Firewalls, and Switches)
• Conduct regular monitoring and reviews of the network logs
• Maintenance and configuration of Active Directory services and domain controllers
• Perform system provisioning for new employees being onboarded
• Perform maintenance and installation tasks related to Windows servers hosted on premises
• Server and application maintenance including backups, failovers, upgrades, and patches
• Execute daily networking checks to include connectivity checks, service checks, log reviews, and daily backups
• Create, maintain, and implement detailed documentation and maintain standard operating procedures and maintain the artifacts in a document repository
• Perform systems operation support, including server system administration, and general troubleshooting
• Provide status updates and reports as required for the Network and System Administration, and Engineering Support activities
• Work collaboratively with other team members and clients to rapidly address, isolate, and resolve issues.
• Manage support and incident tickets submitted by end-users.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server (2012 to 2019), Windows, and Office products
• Advanced knowledge of PowerShell scripting and generating reports with it
• Advanced knowledge of M365 services, Intune, Azure Active Directory
• Advanced knowledge in setting up Domain Controllers, Windows Servers
• Understanding of Infrastructure, server and network design, configuration, and administration
• Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory Administration, Group Policy Management (GPO)
• Experience supporting an enterprise network, including LAN, WAN, and SD-WAN technologies based on Cisco hardware (Meraki/ASA Firewalls and Routers) and platform
• Intermediate knowledge of electrical components and troubleshooting techniques as they relate to business office hardware and infrastructure.
• Intermediate knowledge of Cyber Security principles and best practices
• Intermediate knowledge of data backup and disaster recovery solutions and systems
• Intermediate knowledge of LAN/WAN/SD-WAN Network hardware and infrastructure
• Advanced knowledge of software troubleshooting principles and techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to multitask and function in a fast-paced environment
• Microsoft Office 365 Administration
• A minimum of a bachelor's degree
• Good to have relevant certifications like

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• CCNA
• MCSA
• MCP
• MCSE
• CompTIA Server+

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides support on the full range of Federal Government contracting and procurement functions including formulation, solicitation, negotiation, modification, administration, and termination for high-dollar, long-term, highly visible and critical programs.
• Directs and performs the full range of contract administration responsibilities including incremental funding, preparation of rate and cost adjustments, redirection of effort, coordination of time extensions, incorporation of change orders.
• Use and improve existing enterprise tools, systems, and work processes to assist Project Management Practitioners in effective management control and reporting on cost, schedule and progress measurement for a low complexity project.
• Develop project schedules, cost performance reports and risk registers in close collaboration with assigned Project Manager and other team members.
• Work with Project Manager and team to develop project schedule, risk register and project budget baseline using standard templates and tools within prescribed parameters of assigned project
• Collect project performance data such as installed quantities, expended labor and other progress measurement data.
• Track potential changes and ensure estimates of cost and schedule changes are given visibility with leadership.
• Integrate of cost and schedule data to facilitate schedule and budget performance reporting.
• Work with and assist Project Managers with maintenance and baseline reviews of project schedules in accordance with approved project parameters.
• Assist with assessment of identified project risks to enable project team with applicable data for development of risk mitigation plans and contingencies.
• Partners closely with business partners to assess new and ongoing projects to determine readiness for governance stage gates.
• Monitors actuals and works with the project managers and leadership to review forecasting against budgets.
• Manages Controls data via internal systems and tools
• Working knowledge project controls, schedule management, schedule reporting.
• Strong financial skills including budget management and financial reporting)
• Ability to organize and analyze financial, risk and schedule performance data
• Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of organization.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project), MS SharePoint
• Experience with Project Controls management relating to cost, scheduling, and estimating at a project level.