Protective Security Specialist (PSS) Operations Chief (PSOC)

Employer: Triple Canopy
Location: Iraq Basra, Erbil

Job Description


Coordinates Contractor-provided protective operations
Assists the DS/RSO Watch Officer in the RSO tactical operations center (TOC)
Assists in the coordination and supervision of all protective operations, to include the following:
1. Manage the day-to-day operations of the protection cell within the RSO TOC
2. Evaluate threatening situations and appropriately call for deployment of additional resources (e.g., emergency response team, quick response force, etc.)
3. Operate communications equipment and monitor and relay radio traffic to effectively controlling the various protection nets
4. Communicate with entities outside of the protection cell with a variety of voice and text based communications technology (e.g., local cell phone, regional and global satellite phone, tactical military radio, and UHF/VHF radio
5. Prepare daily and weekly reports as requested by supervisory chain-of-command
6. Maintain a watch record
7. Ensure that PSDs submit required mission paperwork prior to the start of a mission
8. Monitor PSDs
9. Assist with mission planning for PSDs
10. Maintain a database of all protective missions
11. Brief senior US Embassy personnel during emergency situations.
Job Requirements



US citizen
Valid US issued passport and current driver’s license
Must possess either:
A minimum of three (3) year’s of experience providing protective services on client approved contracts
A minimum of two (2) year’s of experience providing protective services on a client approved contracts with a minimum of six (6) months of that experience being in the task order area of operations
Must possess a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in protective security assignments
This experience may be gained in the employ of any national, state, provincial, local, or commercial entities providing armed high threat protective services that require skills similar to those identified in the required training
A minimum of two (2) years of this experience must have been in a protective security supervisory or in-charge capacity
Attend and complete all required training
Qualify with the Glock 19, M4, M203, M240, M249, and Remington 870 shotgun
Obtain and maintain required security clearance
Complete the WPS Physical Readiness Test at the 65% performance level, and maintain that fitness level for the duration on the task order
Possess no impediments to traveling overseas to and within countries that are considered dangerous or unhealthy in general, or to the country or countries assigned in the applicable task order in specific.


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