Personnel Security Management Specialist

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Anthropics U.S. Industrial Security team owns the companys Facility Security Clearances (FCL) Personnel Security (PERSEC) Contracts and DD254s Policies/Procedures/Automation/Metrics and Compliance across the Defense Industrial Base and U.S. Intelligence Community.

We are seeking a PERSEC Management Specialist to work in lockstep with the FSO on day-to-day PERSEC casework across DoD/DoW and Intelligence Community (IC) contracts both collateral and SCI.

Youll act as Contract Program Security Officer (CPSO) for classified contracts handling additions removals and upgrades on contracts and working directly with cleared personnel program managers and government sponsors. Youll also expand our security education program and help build the workflows behind everything that touches cleared personnel: contract support terminations debriefs onboarding reporting and training. Youll also serve as backup to the FSO on FCL matters to ensure our continued compliance.

Why this matters: this work is critical to maintaining Anthropics ability to support classified work with the U.S. government. Youll be the second hire on the industrial security team since the programs inception joining at the ground floor of a team and program thats still being built. The person in this role will have strong influence over how PERSEC processes and the function itself take shape not just executing an established playbook.

• Act as CPSO for classified contracts: add remove and upgrade personnel on contracts and optimize relationships with program managers employees prime/subk partners and government sponsors
• Enhance and execute a security education program covering in-briefs debriefs and ongoing training for cleared employees
• Build and enhance workflows for the full range of PERSEC casework: contract support terminations debriefs in-briefs and training
• Own clearance actions end to end (initiation through debrief) across DoD/DoW systems (DISS SWFT NBIS) and IC-equivalent processes both collateral and SCI
• Manage CE/CV and reportable-event intake including foreign travel and foreign contact reporting under SEAD 3
• Maintain understanding of FCL fundamentals sufficient to serve as backup coverage for the FSO
• Use Claude and other AI tools to automate PERSEC processes wherever possible with the understanding that a meaningful amount of this work will remain manual given government constraints
• Take on special projects and fire drills as needed

• Hold an active Top Secret security clearance
• Have Extensive experience in end-to-end classified contract program management
• Have hands-on experience with DoD/DoW and IC PERSEC processes and terminology (VARs NISPOM CE/CV SEAD 3 NISS DISS SWFT NBIS)
• Have worked with several different US government agencies and have experience with collateral and SCI PERSEC processes and requirements
• Have experience designing delivering and briefing a wide range of security content to a variety of cleared stakeholders (creating rolling out security training)
• Enjoy operating independently across time-bound compliance-driven casework with minimal oversight
• Notice what isnt working and take the initiative to propose fixes rather than waiting to be told
• Are comfortable figuring out what you dont yet know but need to know without hand-holding
• Use sound judgment on ambiguous CI/reportability calls
• Enjoy the building and optimization of programs as much as running them
• Can build trust quickly with a cleared population program managers and external agency points of contact
• Are comfortable directing AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow rather than relying purely on manual processing

• TS/SCI eligibility
• Five Eyes clearance program experience
• Experience delivering security training or building compliant security education programs for cleared personnel
• Familiarity with adjacent industrial security functions: Safeguarding DD254s/Contracts FCL/Compliance Policies/Automation/Metrics
• Experience with Jira or similar ticketing systems
• Willingness to travel periodically (approximately 6x per year) to company offices as needed

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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