Joint SOF Readiness - SME (Active Top-Secret with SCI Required)

Akima, LLC • Tampa, FL

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Akima Systems Engineering (ASE), an Akima company, is seeking a Joint SOF Operations Readiness Subject Matter Expert to join its team at MacDill AFB, Florida. The position supports the Joint Force battle staff by planning, executing, and assessing joint and multinational training and readiness events intended to strengthen staff capabilities and improve mission readiness. The SME advises and mentors CCMD and TSOC staff on representing SOF context accurately in realistic scenarios across mission sets, warfighting functions, and multi-domain operations. The work includes using live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) tools and systems to connect physical assets with synthetic threats across domains, and applying LVC event-planning and execution experience to improve readiness for CCMDs and TSOCs.

The position supports the full lifecycle of USSOCOM collective training and readiness events. It provides command-level readiness insight, decision support, and integration guidance; recommends improvements to planning systems, battle-rhythm flows, information routing, and risk logic; and tracks readiness trends at unit, staff, and enterprise levels. The role provides non-directive advisory support, domain-specific guidance, assistance with planning and synchronization across warfighting functions, and decision-framing and prioritization support. During distributed or in-person readiness events, the SME provides real-time and post-event recommendations to advance SOF-CF integration and mission-command proficiency.

The company describes ASE as an Alaska Native Corporation that supports its shareholder communities in Alaska while delivering maritime IT, systems engineering, and integration solutions to Department of Defense customers. ASE states that employees have access to comprehensive benefits, competitive pay, growth opportunities, and retirement options.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 12 or more years of SOF experience.
• Experience in a primary role at USSOCOM, a TSOC, Service HQ, Joint Staff, OSW, or a 3- or 4-star headquarters.
• Rank or grade of E-8 or above, CW3 or above, or O-4 or above.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five or more years planning and executing joint exercises using JTS.
• Four or more years of joint operations or operational-strategic SOF planning.
• Experience briefing or advising O-5 through GO/FO leaders.
• Experience synchronizing training across TSOCs, SOF Components, CCMD staff, Services, and interagency partners.
• Knowledge and application of UJTL, JMETL, and joint doctrine.
• Experience developing after-action reviews (AARs), readiness assessments, and training improvement plans.
• Hands-on use of JTS, JTT, and DRRS.
• Working knowledge of operational design and understanding of SOF crisis response operations.
• Operational application of warfighting functions and SOF core activities in a Joint SOF HQ environment.
• Experience managing full-spectrum training events in accordance with the CJCSM 3500.03 series.
• Experience ensuring SOF mission sets are represented in exercise objectives, events, and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support the full lifecycle of USSOCOM collective training and readiness events.
• Provide command-level readiness insight, decision support, and integration guidance.
• Recommend improvements to planning systems, battle-rhythm flows, information routing, and risk logic.
• Track readiness trends over time at the unit, staff, and enterprise levels.
• Deliver non-directive advisory support that strengthens decision-making, integration awareness, and commander understanding.
• Provide domain-specific guidance to staff and command groups.
• Assist with planning logic, synchronization across warfighting functions, decision framing, and prioritization.
• Advise during distributed or in-person readiness events and provide real-time and post-event recommendations.
• Advise and mentor CCMD and TSOC staff in representing SOF context in realistic scenarios across mission sets, warfighting functions, and multi-domain operations.
• Use LVC tools and systems to connect physical assets with synthetic threats across domains.
• Plan, execute, and assess joint and multinational training and readiness events.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Competitive pay
• Growth opportunities
• Retirement options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior