Joint Military Planner, Senior

USfalcon•Omaha, NE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

USfalcon is seeking a Joint Military Planner, Senior to support USSTRATCOM at Offutt AFB, NE to support the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Joint Exercises, Training, and Assessment Directorate (J7). The Senior Joint Military Planner provides senior-level expertise in joint and combined operations, strategic planning, mission analysis, and defense planning integration in support of USSTRATCOM campaign, operations, and Joint Force assessments. The selected candidate will apply extensive Office of the Secretary of War and/or Joint Staff experience to connect national defense objectives, Global Campaign Plans, and Combatant Command campaign plans with analytic assessment products that inform senior leader decision-making.

Requirements

At least 15 years of experience working on the Office of the Secretary of War and/or Joint Staff in the operations, plans, policy, strategy, assessments, and/or exercise fields.
Knowledge of the Department of War's National Military Strategy, Consolidated Strategic Opportunities, Global Campaign Plans, and Combatant Command campaign plans, ensuring alignment with national defense objectives.
Experience in Joint and/or Combined operations and operations planning and/or strategic planning; mission analysis required.
Joint Professional Military Education Phase 2 graduate or equivalent.
Demonstrated relevant experience supporting: Support campaign and risk assessments by analyzing information from multiple sources, maintaining policy and strategy awareness, developing measurement criteria, assessing progression toward strategic deterrence objectives, and preparing briefs and reports for senior leaders.
Support operations assessments by participating in operations planning teams, producing commander's estimates and mission analysis, assessing operations, activities and investments, developing and maintaining operations assessments, and preparing briefings and reports.
Participate in USSTRATCOM, component, CCMD, and Joint Staff operations planning teams for Global Campaign Plan consolidated strategic opportunities, campaign plan/order operations, activities and investments operations planning teams, and contingency/steady state operations planning teams.
Create a strategy-to-task framework tying national- and command-level strategy into a single traceable hierarchy.
Produce CCMD-quality commander's estimates and perform mission analysis.
Develop, update, and maintain operations assessments.
Define, document, and articulate the logic for assessments of progression or regression toward achievement of objectives, effects, and risk.
Provide recommendations to improve force integration, resource allocation, and strategic alignment.
Develop graduate-level quality briefings and reports with in-depth analysis and research.
Brief assessment findings to senior leaders and respond to questions.
Support Joint Force assessments, including consolidation of assessments from CCMDs and Services into coherent products and facilitation of the USSTRATCOM Annual Joint Assessment.
Provide additional support to assessments through data identification, collection, analysis, reporting, participation in boards, bureaus, centers, cells, and working groups, and improvement of current assessment processes, tools, and products.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience supporting USSTRATCOM or other Combatant Command campaign planning, strategic planning, contingency planning, or assessment missions.
Experience advising General/Flag Officers, Senior Executive Service leaders, or equivalent senior decision-makers on operations, strategy, and assessment matters.
Experience integrating policy, strategy, operations, and assessment products across Joint Staff, OSW, Combatant Command, and Service stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Conduct graduate-level quality analysis and assessment of USSTRATCOM core mission areas, including Global Strike and Nuclear Operations.
Participate in USSTRATCOM, component, Combatant Command, and Joint Staff operations planning teams for Global Campaign Plan consolidated strategic opportunities, campaign plan and order operations, activities and investments, and contingency or steady-state planning efforts.
Demonstrate and articulate superior knowledge to create a strategy-to-task framework tying the National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, Joint Staff Global Campaign Plans, USSTRATCOM Campaign Plan, and USSTRATCOM Campaign Order into a single, traceable hierarchy.
Produce Combatant Command-quality commander's estimates and perform mission analysis.
Analyze diplomatic, informational, military, economic, readiness, and cost information to determine progression or regression toward achievement of campaign, contingency, or exercise objectives through defined measurement criteria.
Develop, update, and maintain operations assessments, and enter logical and defensible assessments into databases.
Define, document, and articulate the logic for assessments of progression or regression toward achievement of objectives, effects, and risk.
Apply critical thought to identify trends in individual assessments to synthesize information and create key findings.
Provide recommendations to improve force integration, resource allocation, and strategic alignment.
Develop graduate-level quality briefings and reports with in-depth analysis and research, and brief assessment findings to senior leaders while responding to questions.
Assess Joint Force operations, activities, and investments to achieve objectives and effects, evaluate risk, and consolidate assessments from Combatant Commands and Services into coherent products.
Collaborate with OSW, Joint Staff, interagency, international, and other Government agency partners and support development of the USSTRATCOM Annual Joint Assessment.