Information Environment Scenario Writer (MCTP)

Federal Sherpa•Leavenworth, KS

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Information Environment Scenario Writer supports the U.S. Army’s Mission Command Training Program (MCTP) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The role designs, scripts, and implements realistic, contested information environment (IE) timelines, effects, and artifacts across the air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace domains and the human-information sphere for MCTP Warfighter Exercises and Event Lifecycle activities. The Writer ensures IE activities are doctrinally correct, comply with Rules & Workarounds and adjudication processes, and are synchronized with BLUE and OPFOR operations to support exercise objectives. The position helps replicate contested operating environments through scenario timelines, injects, content calendars, and artifacts such as social media posts, threat website pages, and multimedia products. It supports adjudication and execution of IE effects, coordinates with senior control elements, and uses the Information Operations Network and other approved platforms to create immersive simulated information environments. The Writer also works with storyline authors, OPFOR, and intelligence subject-matter experts; researches adversary information tactics; produces planning and after-action materials; and maintains archived, version-controlled exercise artifacts. This is an onsite position at MCTP, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A Secret clearance and an active passport with at least one year remaining before expiration are required.

Requirements

Education in Information Operations, Military Information Support Operations, marketing, public affairs, or journalism.
A bachelor’s degree and five years of military experience, or a high school education and ten years of military experience.
Secret clearance.
Active passport with at least one year remaining before expiration.

Nice To Haves

Qualifications or certifications such as FA30, 37A, 37F, PAO, or certifications in marketing, journalism, or public relations.
Knowledge or experience planning online marketing campaigns, online journalism, public relations, or analyzing diverse perspectives among online audiences.
Deployed experience serving in an S39, G39, or J39 staff section.
Demonstrated experience writing scenario content and tactical- or operational-level IE effects for training exercises or operational planning.
Hands-on experience using the Information Operations Network or similar IE/simulation platforms to create, publish, and manage simulated social media or website content.
Experience with multimedia or graphic editing and simple web development for threat-site replication.
Strong understanding of adversary communications techniques, social media manipulation, influence tactics, and information ecosystem dynamics.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders and coordinate with multiple control elements.
Direct experience supporting MCTP, Combat Training Centers, Joint or Coalition exercises, or large-scale Warfighter Exercises.

Responsibilities

Assist in designing and replicating realistic contested operating environments involving cyberspace, social media, media, and perception management.
Produce scenario timelines, injects, content calendars, and artifacts suitable for scripted and competitive exercises.
Participate in adjudications for IE effects and support Rules & Workaround processes involving IO, Civil Affairs, MISO, and Public Affairs.
Ensure IE effects targeting BLUE and OPFOR comply with Rules & Workaround guidance, legal constraints, and exercise-control guidance.
Monitor and validate that planned IE actions are conducted as approved and do not create uncontrolled outcomes.
Coordinate continuously with BLUE and OPFOR senior control elements to schedule and confirm approved IE effects.
Provide timely status updates and modify effects in response to adjudication results or emerging exercise needs.
Use the Information Operations Network and other approved tools or platforms to replicate social media, adversary messaging, influencer tactics, engagement patterns, threat websites, propaganda, and multimedia exploitation.
Implement immersive, interactive content and monitor participant interaction when appropriate.
Coordinate with storyline authors, OPFOR, and intelligence subject-matter experts to align IE content with the exercise narrative, desired effects, and intelligence requirements.
Conduct classified and unclassified research on emerging adversary information tactics, techniques, and procedures, translating findings into safe, doctrinally representative exercise inputs.
Produce IE planning products, adjudication logs, content libraries, timelines, and after-action inputs for AARs and lessons learned.
Archive IE artifacts and maintain version-controlled repositories in accordance with exercise data management policies.