Program Leader

Title: OCEC Program Leader â Active Clearance Required

Location: Livermore CA United States

Job Description:

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States' security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are looking for individuals that demonstrate an understanding of working in partnership with team peers, who engage, advocate, and contribute to building an inclusive culture, and provide expertise to solve challenging problems.

Pay Rate

$206,490 - $265,188 Annually for the SEL.4 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

Embark on a mission vital to both national and global security as a Classification Advisor and Program Lead for the Office of Classification and Export Control (OCEC) at LLNL. Here, you'll be at the forefront of safeguarding critical information across a diverse spectrum of programs, including Strategic Deterrence (SD), Global Security, the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and various cutting-edge Science and Technology disciplines. As a Classification Advisor, you won't just fill a role - you'll be a subject matter expert (SME) shaping the landscape of our security protocols. Imagine being the go-to resource, collaborating with brilliant minds - scientists, engineers, innovators, and authors - to ensure the proper classification of information at every stage of its development. This position will be in the Strategic Deterrence Directorate.

This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.

In this role you will

• Manage a $10M+ portfolio and a team of approximately 19 staff members that serve as Classification Advisors within the OCEC, facilitating strong collaboration between the offices of Classification and Export Control.
• Manage sustained competency of technical staff to ensure the proper classification of information at every stage of its development and diplomacy in assisting clients with classification questions and guiding them through the information review and release (IM) process.
• Establish and maintain metrics on classification and export control reviews to inform overall staffing needs, identify specific areas of expertise for staff development, and provide more visibility for case load management
• Establish and maintain a process for effectively managing OCEC's heavy case load, effectively incorporating availability of full time, part time, and reviewers with specific subject matter expertise
• Mentor Derivative Classifiers (DCs), Reviewing Officials (ROs), and Laboratory staff in support of compliance with LLNL Classification and Export Control policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with Program Leaders throughout the Laboratory on classification
• Develop and communicate information on complex classification issues and policies by means of briefings, correspondence, and bulletins given to the laboratory population.
• Analyze complex information and apply advanced knowledge related to current DOE and other government-approved classification guidance to determine classification in assigned document DC reviews, confirming OCEC reviews, and recommend changes to guidance when approved guides no longer address the full scope of classified program activities.
• Provide leadership, supervision, and technical, strategic, and administrative direction, guidance and support in accomplishing program goals and objectives
• Recognize and support plans to promote and foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability within the workplace.
• Develop defensible determinations/solutions, develop new ideas or modify current approaches when challenges are not well defined, are highly complex, and require in-depth analysis of multiple factors.
• Serve on external committees for DOE or NNSA and may be the primary classification advisor as well as a technical contact for a specified program.
• Act as a classification officer leader for specific subject areas. This task may include direct interaction with the government sponsor, NNSA, or HQ DOE.
• Help define Security plans or Information plans for specific programs or experiments which will clearly define what is unclassified and what information requires additional protection, based on approved classification guides or bulletins.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must hold and maintain an active U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Master's degree in technical fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, or related fields or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Significant experience as a technical/scientific leader in organizing, planning, and coordinating projects through to successful completion in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, and advanced level interpersonal skills needed to attract, motivate, and retain a high performing technical staff.
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems as will be encountered in classification and export control tasks.
• Understand guidance and how it applies to information.
• Experience exercising sound judgment in considering conflicts between complex missions, goals, and administrative classification constraints.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills to achieve clarity and conciseness, demonstrating diplomacy when interacting with customers who have conflicting interests and opinions.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a technical expert both independently and as part of a team towards specific objectives, while performing duties and assignments on a tight schedule.
• Experience performing tasks both with competency and with diplomacy, in working with the diverse technical laboratory population.
• Significant relevant experience working in technical subject areas that can support major programs within the laboratory.
• Significant experience working as a Derivative Classifier (DC) or as a federal Original Classifier (OC).
• Significant experience working successfully on challenges that are not well defined, consistently requiring creativity and innovation, and the ability to establish objectives, which may include documenting classification determinations, consulting HQ DOE or other government agencies (OGA), and assisting the program or P.I. with direct sponsor interaction on classification guidance.
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in an area of technical development, understand classification applied to the technical area, yet be supportive of goals, milestones, and deadlines for the Program.
• Significant experience succeeding in assignments where the consequence of error may result in long-term inability to reach laboratory objectives and demonstrate the ability to serve as a primary technical/organizational contact, mentor other personnel, become an organization spokesperson, and advise senior management and/or external sponsors.

Desired Qualifications

• PhD degree in technical fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, or related fields or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Derivative Classifier (DC) authority and/or Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information Reviewing Official (RO) authority.
• Experience in programmatic areas within or relevant to the laboratory. This includes nuclear weapons design and related weapons sciences, computer science, non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), remote sensing technologies, Department of Defense programs, Global Security and Department of Homeland Security programs, Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and Lasers.
• Demonstrated experience implementing plans that promote and value inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability principles in the workplace.

Additional Information

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Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

• Included in 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity
• Our core beliefs - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/our-values
• Employee engagement - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/employee-engagement

Security Clearance

This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at time of hire.

Pre-Employment Drug Test

External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.

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