A Security Manager manages physical security for sites and facilities, including hotels, banks, hospitals and other businesses. Oversees guards and security officers. Develops, coordinates and implements security and emergency procedures with facility management staff. Coordinates with law enforcement officials.
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.
