Exercise Planner

E&M Technologies•Camp Smith, HI

7d•$170,000•Onsite

About The Position

E&M Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Exercise Planner to join their team at Camp Smith, HI, in support of SOCPAC. SOCPAC is responsible for planning, directing, and executing special operations across the Indo-Pacific region to advance U.S. national security objectives, strengthen allied and partner capabilities, and promote regional stability. The role involves integrating multi-domain special operations forces to conduct various missions including counterterrorism, unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, information operations, and crisis response. The Exercise Planner will contribute to persistent engagement, joint interoperability, and strategic partnership development to ensure readiness, deter aggression, respond to emerging threats, and enable a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in any field.
Eight (8) years of experience as a DoD exercise planner, with at least two (2) years of experience in the INDOPACOM AOR.
Eight (8) years of experience in multi-disciplined special operations at the operational and tactical levels supporting SOF.
Experience with training software and other IT systems associated with exercise planning.
Five (5) years of experience with the Joint Exercise Lifecycle (JELC) planning process.
Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) TS/SCI clearance and be SAP/STO eligible.

Responsibilities

Support SOCPAC exercise planning and execution to meet JCS and Service exercise requirements in support of USINDOPACOM TCP and USSOCOM Commander’s Training and Education Guidance.
Plan, coordinate, and execute SOCPAC and component participation in assigned USINDOPACOM JCS and Service exercises.
Coordinate and manage exercise development in conjunction with USINDOPACOM and component planners and participants.
Develop training objectives that meet SOCPAC JMETL requirements.
Ensure SOCPAC and component exercises inform the Defense Readiness Reporting System and fully incorporate the Joint Lessons Learned system.
Enhance the command’s capability to train and prepare for a broad spectrum of threats from real and/or simulated adversaries.
Develop training objectives in conjunction with exercise participants and SOCPAC staff stakeholders.
Assist in coordination with exercise participants and supporters from other DoD and non-DoD organizations.
Draft and develop realistic threat scenarios, incorporating best-practice inputs from DoD and other agencies.
Coordinate exercise criteria to test and stress the command’s training objectives.
Consolidate and draft After Action Reports (AAR) related to training objectives, corrections, and Course of Action (COA) development.