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SECURITY SPECIALIST (PROTECTION)

Army National Guard Units

Latham, NYFull-time$92–120K/yrPosted 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$92–120K/yr
Location
Latham, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

This National Guard Title 32 excepted-service position serves as the Joint Force Headquarters (State) Protection Officer for Army and Air functional elements. The specialist handles physical and operations security policy, intelligence and law-enforcement-sensitive information, and assigned program areas. The role directs studies and reviews, revises, and implements protection policy and projects.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data AnalysisTechnical Material InterpretationOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationRisk AssessmentInformation SecurityPhysical SecuritySecurity Program Management

Qualifications

One Year at Next Lower GradeWarrant or Officer Grade

Full job description

Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SECURITY SPECIALIST (PROTECTION), Position Description Number D1164P01 and is part of the J3 DO, National Guard. This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.

Duties

As a SECURITY SPECIALIST (PROTECTION) (GS-0080-12), you will serve as the Joint Force Headquarters (State) (JFHQ-STATE) Protection Officer for Army and Air functional elements and related physical and operations security policy and issues, handling of intelligence and law enforcement sensitive information, managing assigned program areas, directing studies and reviewing, revising and implementing protection policy and projects. Qualifications

Military Grades: Warrant & Officer GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience, education or training in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately. Able to apply procedures and directives by reading and interpreting technical material. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing, using presentation and report formats. Demonstrated ability to follow directions, to read, understand, and retain a variety of instructions, regulations, and procedures. Learned ability to assess the surrounding environment to recognize immediate risk levels. Must have the education and validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the occupational series and grade for one of the seven organizational program disciplines and its applicable Security Series career. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have one year equivalent to at least next lower grade level. Serves as the JFHQ-State authority and expert on all matters involving protection functional elements and integration of enabling functional requirements, policy, procedures, program status and serves as the conduit of information between the intelligence community and local state and federal law enforcement. Serves as the focal point to coordinate, de-conflict, and integrate various force protection staff initiatives, policies, and activities within the state. Serves as consultant to the Adjutant General, JFHQ-State, and unit commanders on protection. Responsible for 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. Receives 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 threat to all state forces. Must review classified information and determine what information constitutes law enforcement sensitive information. Provides recommendations, briefings, updates, and staff studies across a broad range of security specialties to influence installation-level decision-making and policy development.

Education

Education requirements - Not applicable for this position How You Will Be Evaluated

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics):Information Security, Physical Security, and Security Program Management Other Information

If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov)). Additional Conditions of Employment: -The duties and responsibilities of your job may significantly impact the environment. You are responsible to maintain awareness of your environmental responsibilities as dictated by legal and regulatory requirements, your organization, and its changing mission.

How this job compares

Set against the 590 open Security Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$92–120K/yr
  • US median$81–116K/yr366 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $106K, is 9% above the US median midpoint ($97K) — in the middle half of Security Specialist salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open Security Specialist jobs in New York and 590 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Security Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 407 postings).
Education
105 of the 590 open Security Specialist jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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