Exercise Planner

Booz Allen Hamilton•Usa, NC

About The Position

Exercise Planner The Opportunity: As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As an Exercise Planner, you’ll bring your leadership, strategic, operational, Marine Corps Planning Process ( MCPP ) , and exercise lifecycle ( ELC ) expertise to support the client’s exercise planning, providing continuity for participation in major 2-, 3-, and 4-star service, joint, and combined exercises. You will use your skills and expertise to research, develop, analyze, assess, plan, and support client exercise planning, providing continuity, expertise, and dedicated focus to enhance their capacity to c ond uct high-quality planning for major exercises, including Cold Response, Navy Large Scale Exercise, and Distributed Aviation Operations exercises. You will effectively manage planning and coordination requirements for all assigned exercises. You will develop and execute detailed exercise plans of actions and milestones ( POA & Ms ) , identify required resources, provide mitigation recommendations for resource shortfalls, deliver status updates, brief senior leaders, lead operational planning teams ( OPTs ) or working groups ( WGs ) , develop exercise briefs and other information products, and transition plans to major subordinate elements. You’ll forecast, coordinate, and synchronize exercise planning requirements with resource requirements via SharePoint, Teams, and other systems. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in USMC or DoD future operations and exercise planning, including wargames and exercises and developing military orders, concepts of operations, POA & Ms, and operational plans
Experience on a Marine Corps General Officer Staff
Experience with the Marine Corps Planning Process, Joint Planning Process, or Navy Planning Process and the DoD, Service, MEF, and command-level policies , plans, procedures, actions, and milestones necessary for efficient planning, development, and analyses of major exercises
Experience working closely with exercise action officers, coordinating across staff functions and command echelons, and providing support to ELC event planning efforts
Knowledge of Marine Corps Aviation operations and functions
Ability to brief senior-level customers, including general and flag officers
Ability to present and effectively advocate client equities at planning conferences, OPTs, and WGs
TS / SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with USMC or DoD aviation
Master's degree
Graduate of School of Advanced Warfighting ( SAW ) , Army School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) , or Joint or Service equivalent
Completion of Joint Professional Military Education Phase 1 and 2

Responsibilities

Research, develop, analyze, assess, plan, and support client exercise planning
Manage planning and coordination requirements for all assigned exercises
Develop and execute detailed exercise plans of actions and milestones ( POA & Ms )
Identify required resources
Provide mitigation recommendations for resource shortfalls
Deliver status updates
Brief senior leaders
Lead operational planning teams ( OPTs ) or working groups ( WGs )
Develop exercise briefs and other information products
Transition plans to major subordinate elements
Forecast, coordinate, and synchronize exercise planning requirements with resource requirements via SharePoint, Teams, and other systems