Security Manager / FDO | TS/SCI Clearance Required

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Work You'll Do

The Security Manager is responsible for managing and executing the organization's industrial, personnel, information, and operational security functions while administering the Command's Foreign Disclosure Program under the direction of the Foreign Disclosure Officer (FDO). This role ensures compliance with applicable Department of Defense (DoD), national security, foreign disclosure, export control, and classified information protection requirements.

The position serves as a key advisor to leadership on security risk, classified program protection, release authorization, and disclosure coordination involving foreign governments, coalition partners, and international stakeholders. The individual in this role balances operational mission support with rigorous compliance, ensuring that security processes and foreign disclosure decisions are timely, accurate, documented, and aligned with governing policy.

This is a high-visibility role requiring sound judgment, discretion, policy interpretation, and the ability to coordinate across senior military, government, contractor, and international partner organizations with excellent customer service.

Key Responsibilities

1) Security Management

• Lead day-to-day security operations in support of classified and sensitive programs, facilities, personnel, systems, and information.

• Administer personnel security actions, including clearance submissions, visit requests, access eligibility verification, indoctrinations, debriefings, reinvestigations, and incident reporting.

• Maintain compliance with applicable DoD, national, and contract security requirements governing classified information, physical security, document control, and safeguarding procedures.

• Manage classified holdings, storage, transmission, destruction, accountability, and access controls for classified and controlled unclassified information.

• Conduct internal security reviews, self-inspections, audits, and compliance assessments; identify deficiencies and implement corrective actions.

• Develop, update, and enforce security policies, standard operating procedures, and local work instructions.

• Deliver security education, awareness, and training to employees, leadership, and program personnel.

• Coordinate with government security offices, contracting authorities, program managers, and leadership on security compliance matters, inspections, incidents, and corrective action plans.

• Support incident response, inquiries, and reporting involving security violations, loss or compromise of information, and adverse information issues.

• Advise leadership on risk mitigation strategies related to classified operations, insider threat considerations, facility compliance, and mission assurance.

2) Foreign Disclosure Responsibilities

• Execute, implement, and manage the Command's Foreign Disclosure Program in accordance with National Disclosure Policy and applicable DoD foreign disclosure directives, regulations, and guidance.

• Review, staff, and process foreign disclosure requests involving classified military information, controlled technical information, briefings, documents, data, visits, and international exchanges.

• Analyze requests for releasability, disclosure limitations, originator control, classification, export control, and third-party transfer restrictions.

• Prepare recommendations for the Foreign Disclosure Officer (FDO) and leadership regarding approval, denial, limitation, or escalation of disclosure requests.

• Coordinate disclosure actions with senior officials, including O-6 and above, program offices, legal counsel, intelligence, operational staff, security personnel, and external agencies as required.

• Extensive coordination and engagement with the Foreign Disclosure Office and Officers.

• Maintain accurate records, case files, logs, and status tracking for disclosure actions, approvals, denials, and supporting rationale.

• Draft and update foreign disclosure policies, templates, desk procedures, and guidance materials.

• Support multinational operations, exercises, briefings, and engagements by ensuring that information shared with foreign partners is properly reviewed and authorized.

• Provide guidance to staff on release restrictions, disclosure authorities, export-controlled information, and disclosure decision timelines.

• Monitor program execution to ensure timely staffing and closure of complex, multi-action disclosure requests.

3) Cross-Functional Duties

• Serve as a trusted liaison between security, operations, program leadership, and international partner stakeholders.

• Ensure alignment across security, foreign disclosure, classification management, information assurance, and export control compliance activities.

• Support readiness for external inspections, audits, and command reviews.

• Prepare metrics, reports, and briefings for leadership on security posture, disclosure workload, compliance status, and program risks.

• Promote a culture of accountability, mission support, and compliance across the organization.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

• Ability to lead projects or workstreams

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

• Ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector's IndustryAdvantageTM.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required

• 5+ years of experience in security management, industrial security, personnel security, information security, or related security functions, including at least 1 year of foreign disclosure experience within the last 3 years.

• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying DoD security and foreign disclosure regulations, directives, and policies

• Hands-on experience with standard Federal Security systems (i.e. DISS, MP-ICAM)

• Experience submitting, tracking, and processing personnel security and clearance-related actions.

Preferred:

• Master's Degree in security management, or a related field

• Prior experience serving as an FSO, Security Manager, CPSO, Special Security Representative, or Foreign Disclosure Representative in a DoD or national security environment.

• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders across multiple locations.

• Completion of DIA Foreign Disclosure in-residence training or equivalent advanced foreign disclosure training.

• Completion of relevant CDSE training in industrial security, personnel security, derivative classification, foreign disclosure, export controls, and related disciplines.

• Familiarity with National Disclosure Policy, DoD foreign disclosure guidance, export control frameworks, and releasability determinations.

• Experience supporting multinational, joint, coalition, or security cooperation activities.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment on complex, ambiguous, or sensitive cases.

• Preferred Certifications - CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+, NCMS (ISP), SFPC - Security

• CDSE coursework in foreign disclosure, industrial security, classified information protection, and related security disciplines, DIA Foreign Disclosure training

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $107,900 to $179,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.