Job ID: 2612099
Location: Camp Smith, HI, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-01
Category: Security
Subcategory: Security
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
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
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.
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.
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university & 10+ years of related experience; OR Master's Degree & 8+ years of experience.
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Active TS/SCI clearance.
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Minimum 5 years of combined 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.
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Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying DoD security and foreign disclosure regulations, directives, and policies.
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Hands-on experience with standard Federal Security systems (i.e. DISS, MP-ICAM).
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Experience submitting, tracking, and processing personnel security and clearance-related actions.
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Experience handling classified information and maintaining compliance with safeguarding and accountability requirements.
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Ability to manage multiple actions simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines in a high-tempo environment.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare decision memoranda, policy guidance, and executive-level correspondence.
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Ability to coordinate with senior officials and cross-functional stakeholders on sensitive security and disclosure matters.
Preferred Qualifications
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Master’s degree in security management, or a related field.
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Prior experience serving as an FSO, Security Manager, CPSO, Special Security Representative, or Foreign Disclosure Representative in a DoD or national security environment.
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Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders across multiple locations.
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Completion of DIA Foreign Disclosure in-residence training or equivalent advanced foreign disclosure training.
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Completion of relevant CDSE training in industrial security, personnel security, derivative classification, foreign disclosure, export controls, and related disciplines.
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Familiarity with National Disclosure Policy, DoD foreign disclosure guidance, export control frameworks, and releasability determinations.
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Experience supporting multinational, joint, coalition, or security cooperation activities.
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Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment on complex, ambiguous, or sensitive cases.
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Preferred Certifications – CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+, NCMS (ISP), SFPC – Security.
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CDSE coursework in foreign disclosure, industrial security, classified information protection, and related security disciplines, DIA Foreign Disclosure training.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
