
Security Specialist
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Job overview
Chenega Naswik International is hiring Top Secret-cleared Security Specialists to support a Special Security Office in Washington, DC. The role supports classified programs through SCIF operations, security processing, and national security mission support. It seeks seasoned security professionals with experience in SCI administration, foreign travel processing, indoctrinations, and special access program support.
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Summary
Mission. Security. Impact.
Chenega Naswik International is hiring Top Secret-cleared Security Specialists to support a Special Security Office in Washington, DC. This position offers the opportunity to work with classified programs, manage SCIF operations, conduct security processing, and contribute directly to national security missions. Ideal for seasoned security professionals with experience in SCI administration, foreign travel processing, indoctrinations, and special access program support. Join a team where your expertise makes a difference every day.
Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Process and conduct security prescreening interviews.
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Support several SCIFs to include processing administrative documentation, implementing physical security requirements and coordination of large meetings held within SCIFs.
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Process all foreign travel and foreign contact forms.
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Visitor check-in and check-out.
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Implement physical security requirements.
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Assist in the preparation, conducting and tracking of SCI indoctrinations and debriefs.
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Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)
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Active Top Secret security clearance.
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Three (3) to Five (5) or more years of relevant experience.
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Must be knowledgeable of the day-to-day running of the Security Office. Indoctrinations, debriefings, foreign travel, supporting both SCIF's, visitors, conferences, and inspections.
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Successfully pass background and drug screening
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
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Excellent customer service skills and ability to interact with senior government personnel.
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Must be proficient with Microsoft Office products.
Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
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Sufficient fine motor skill for use of computers, calculator with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time
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Visual, auditory and communication abilities sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job
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Ability to kneel bend and twist at the waist on an occasional basis,
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Ability to push, pull, carry and lift objects weighing up to 20 pounds on a regular basis and more on an occasional basis
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Ability to travel by plane and safely operate a motor vehicle
Work Environment:
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The employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.
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During visits to areas of operations, may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions. Is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.
Estimated Salary/Wage
USD $95,000.00/Yr.
Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
We participate in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program
How this job compares
Set against the 605 open Security Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$105–158K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$81–116K/yr347 salary ranges
This rate, $95K, is 32% below the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($140K) — in the lowest quarter of Security Specialist salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Security Specialist jobs in Washington, D.C. and 605 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Security Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (392 postings).
- Education
- 116 of the 605 open Security Specialist jobs (19%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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