Lead Strategic Planner

Horizon Strategies LLCTampa, FL
Hybrid

About The Position

This contract supports U.S. Central Command's theater-level planning mission by providing experienced professionals who develop strategies, campaign plans, operational orders, assessments, and coordination products that integrate military, interagency, allied, and partner-nation activities throughout the USCENTCOM area of responsibility. The Lead Strategic Planner leads and coordinates advanced joint strategic planning, policy, exercise, and plan development supporting USCENTCOM long-range and operational planning requirements.

Requirements

  • Comprehensive experience in joint strategic planning.
  • Graduate of JAWS, SAMS, SAASS, SAW, MAWS, or a Senior Service College equivalent program.
  • Master’s degree.
  • At least 10 years of planning experience.
  • At least 5 years of planning experience at a Geographic or Functional Combatant Command headquarters.
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English fluently.
  • Skills, knowledge, training, current certifications, and licenses necessary to perform the assigned PWS services.
  • Common Access Card eligibility and completion of required Information Assurance training and the USCENTCOM Staff Officer Orientation Course before network access.
  • Minimum TS/SCI clearance must be possessed and maintained unless the applicable CLIN description expressly provides an exception.
  • Applicable positions may be subject to a counterintelligence polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Organize, direct, and coordinate planning and production across task order activities.
  • Develop analyses, recommendations, orders, estimates, briefings, and other draft products for working-group review and senior-leader use.
  • Advise on all phases of the Joint Operational Planning Process, including mission analysis, course of action development, wargaming, comparison, and decision.
  • Translate approved courses of action, commander’s intent, mission statements, and guidance into plans and orders directing subordinate action.
  • Conduct orderly transition of plans to organizations responsible for execution and explain key planning decisions and rationale.
  • Coordinate across JPTs, OPTs, LRPEs, working groups, components, interagency organizations, allies, coalition members, and partners.
  • Support working-group management through reports, research, assessments, alternative solutions, and long-range impact analysis.
  • Coordinate FOIA requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews for designated CCJ5 files in accordance with applicable legal standards and USCENTCOM directives.
  • Safeguard classified and unclassified Government information, property, controlled forms, facilities, equipment, and materials.
  • Maintain Government records separately from company records and comply with applicable federal records, FOIA, Privacy Act, DoD, and USCENTCOM requirements.
  • Perform work to the PWS quality standards and correct identified product deficiencies within applicable performance thresholds.
  • Support required contract deliverables and provide products to the designated government task lead, COR, or alternate COR through approved USCENTCOM channels.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits package
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