Compliance Officer
Location: Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD
Job Number: 1224063
Salary: $55,924 - $191,900
Closing Date: February 2, 2024
Responsibilities
Compliance Officers develop and implement comprehensive mission compliance solutions to protect privacy and civil liberty during the conduct of NSA's mission activities. They support the development, implementation, and monitoring of a mission compliance program that includes internal control activities, risk assessments, standards and procedures, awareness and training, and verification and assessment to ensure compliance with applicable legal and policy requirements.
The responsibilities of a Compliance Officer include:
- Ensuring compliance with federal law, Executive Orders, Presidential directives, Intelligence Community directives, and Department of Defense and NSA/CSS policy.
- Provide oversight and compliance support to operational and compliance systems, algorithms, analytics and analysis processes, and dissemination activities.
- Preparing generalized or specialized educational materials for the global workforce about the laws, policy, practices, and procedures that apply to cybersecurity and intelligence mission activities.
- Identifying, understanding, and applying the external and internal obligations with which the Agency must comply with to training, mission functions, processing, and reporting procedures
- Identifying, designing, and assessing the effectiveness of existing preventative and detective compliance controls as applied to mission data sets and mission activities.
- Performing risk assessments of existing controls set against a complex, evolving architecture and dynamic analytic methods.
- Preparing documentation for the overseers such as the Department of Justice, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Inspector General.
- Performing mission or project lead activities that result in improved systems, algorithms, or methods that underpin current or future compliance controls.
- Managing and executing technical preventive and detective controls systems applied against all mission data sets as well as processing, analysis, and dissemination analytic activities.
- Monitoring, auditing, and enhancing privacy compliance activities (interviewing, planning, developing) supported by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning models.
- Utilizing investigative techniques to make competent investigative mission compliance determinations and associated recommendations.
- Managing compliance incidents and related processes to perform root cause analysis and develop mitigation strategies.
- Serving as a subject matter expert liaison between groups internal or external to the NSA/CSS.
Job Summary
NSA is dedicated to national security through the provision of cybersecurity and intelligence information to policy makers and military leaders. In order to ensure that these operations occur in accordance with the established laws and policies, governing privacy and civil liberty protections, NSA has built a robust mission compliance office and program to achieve this goal. Do you want to help protect national security and safeguard NSA's mission authorities by ensuring that operations occur in a compliant manner? If so, a Compliance Officer career may be right for you!
Qualifications
The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.
Degree in Business, Accounting, or a related field (e.g., Finance, Economics, Management, and Information Technology) is preferred, but a degree in any field is acceptable.
ENTRY/DEVELOPMENTAL
Entry is with a Bachelor's degree and no experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 4 years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position.
Relevant experience must be performing compliance, legal, policy, auditing (preferably in the DOD or IC environment), or related work and/or working in an area directly related to NSA mission (e.g., collection, intelligence, information assurance, cyber).
