Irregular Warfare Planner, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Tampa, FL

5d•Remote

About The Position

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 guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems—and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As an Irregular Warfare (IW) Planner, you will shape the integration of irregular warfare concepts across joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational planning efforts. You will assess complex operational environments to identify irregular threats, partner ‑ force capabilities, and opportunities to create strategic advantage. In this role, you will develop courses of action that apply unconventional, asymmetric, and information ‑ focused approaches while synchronizing activities across information, cyber, psychological, civil ‑ military, and influence operations. You will collaborate with intelligence, operations, and interagency partners to fuse analytic insights into operational design and advise commanders on the employment of irregular forces, surrogate elements, and partner ‑ nation assets. You will plan activities that counter proxy forces, insurgents, and adversarial influence networks and organizations and may be embedded within information ‑ focused operational elements to provide expert planning support that enhances mission readiness. Grow your career with us as you help solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

Experience with special operations or operational planning
Experience assessing operational environments to identify irregular threats and partner‑force capabilities
Experience integrating irregular warfare principles into joint or interagency planning processes
Experience developing courses of action employing unconventional or asymmetric approaches
Experience synchronizing activities across information, cyber, psychological, or civil‑military operations
Ability to fuse intelligence analysis into operational design and planning
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree and 10+ years of experience with irregular warfare or Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of experience with irregular warfare

Nice To Haves

Experience at the Combatant Command level
Knowledge of JOPP, MDMP, MCPP, and joint operational design processes
Master’s degree in a related field
Graduate of Joint or Service Irregular Warfare professional military education programs

Responsibilities

Shape the integration of irregular warfare concepts across joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational planning efforts.
Assess complex operational environments to identify irregular threats, partner-force capabilities, and opportunities to create strategic advantage.
Develop courses of action that apply unconventional, asymmetric, and information-focused approaches.
Synchronize activities across information, cyber, psychological, civil-military, and influence operations.
Collaborate with intelligence, operations, and interagency partners to fuse analytic insights into operational design.
Advise commanders on the employment of irregular forces, surrogate elements, and partner-nation assets.
Plan activities that counter proxy forces, insurgents, and adversarial influence networks and organizations.
Provide expert planning support that enhances mission readiness when embedded within information-focused operational elements.