SECURITY SPECIALIST (PROTECTION)

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This position involves a range of duties related to protection, intelligence, and security operations within the state. The role requires expertise in integrating various protection staff initiatives, policies, and activities, and serves as a consultant to the Chief of Staff and unit commanders on protection matters.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serving as the authority and expert on all matters involving protection functional elements and integration of enabling functional requirements, policy, procedures, program status, and serving as the conduit of information between the intelligence community and local state and federal law enforcement.
• Coordinating, de-conflicting, and integrating various protection staff initiatives, policies, and activities within the state.
• Establishing working relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies on behalf of the Chief of Staff.
• Conducting intelligence integration and information operations to assess potential threats and creating an ARNG integrated protection program.
• Preparing protection plans, templates, and planning tools for subordinate units, writing comprehensive all hazard plans, directing the use of active and passive security measures, and incorporating random antiterrorism measures to protect personnel, armories, buildings, and garrison environments.
• Conducting protection resource management to prioritize and generate protective measures.
• Synchronizing daily operations and integration, coordination, and plans resource management requirements for the Protection Program functional elements of Antiterrorism (AT), Intelligence Support to Antiterrorism, Emergency Management (EM), Insider Threat, Law Enforcement (LE), Mission Assurance (MA), and Physical Security (PS) for the State ARNG.
• Integrating sub-functional areas and developing a holistic protection program that meets the Command's objectives, ARNG, NGB, and Army regulatory requirements.
• Involving all measures related to security for all ARNG installations, facilities, arms/munitions storage activities, and personnel.
• Interpreting broad, non-specific higher headquarters directives for ARNG applicability and implementation.
• Formulating local protection procedures and policies based on unique command and operational needs when U.S., DoD, NGB, Unified Commands, Army directives are not specific.
• Receiving filter, focus, and fuse information from military intelligence sources, publicly available information sources, and local, state, and federal law enforcement sources to develop a clear understanding of real or potential threats to all state forces.
• Reviewing classified information and determining what information constitutes law enforcement sensitive information.
• Responsible for the declassification of military intelligence that is deemed law enforcement sensitive and requires dissemination to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies operating within the state.
• Planning, conducting, directing the conduct of, or coordinating on-site security studies, projects, assessments, and surveys of the State in relationship to protection activities.
• Working with engineers to assess and sign off on all construction projects within the state to ascertain that protection construction standards are complied with.
• Representing the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS)/ Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS) at meetings, conferences, workshops, panels, etc., at NGB and other deferral agency levels as the state technical authority.
• Serving as a member and acting as the chairperson for various boards and working groups to include intra-agency or inter-organizational committees to identify and resolve or to assign responsibilities for resolving safeguards and security issues or to perform similar work assignments, the Protection charters and Threat Working Group.
• Determining the need for, organizing, and conducting meetings, conferences, and workshops at the JFHQ, Brigade, or subordinate unit level to discuss and resolve specific protection issues or problems, or highlight new security policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Supervising AGR, Title 32, Title 5, contractors, and/or state employees directly, and through subordinate supervisors. Interviewing prospective employees. Approving personnel actions, counseling, and evaluating subordinate employees. Assuring compliance with Federal and local personnel management policies. Hearing employee grievances and complaints; taking necessary informal disciplinary actions and when warranted, proposing formal actions.
• Implementing the provisions of the equal opportunity program and employee/labor relations program and keeping employees informed on all aspects of the personnel program. Reviewing position descriptions and recommending changes when needed.
• Performing other duties as assigned.