Military Future Operations Planner

Booz Allen Hamilton•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

Military Future Operations Planner The Opportunity: 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 solve some of our clients’ most complex problems—and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As a Future Operations Analyst, you’ll bring your strategic perspective and service-level operational and organizational expertise to work alongside thought leaders in defense strategy, operational planning, and exercise integration. You’ll help translate long-range plans into executable actions by developing orders, coordinating exercises, and aligning future operations initiatives. You’ll identify and evaluate policies and processes to enable integrated execution of joint and service strategies across DOTMLPF domains. You’ll collaborate with operational planners to ensure continuity between planning and execution, participate in working groups and planning conferences to synchronize efforts across Service, DoD, and Joint Staff stakeholders, and provide decision support that informs operational readiness and Global Force Management alignment. Work with us to evaluate complex challenges, identify blind spots, and recommend opportunities to inform senior military decision-makers. Further your career while creating mission-forward solutions that matter. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience with DoD organizations
Experience supporting operational planning and future operations at Service Headquarters
Expertise applying Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP), Joint Planning Process (JPP), and Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) methodologies
Experience developing EXORDs, PLANORDs, OPORDs, and LOIs for operational planning
Experience advising senior military and civilian leaders on campaign development, long-range planning, and DoD policy
Experience with Reserve Component mobilization planning and policy synchronization
Ability to develop and track Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M) and analyze directives for operational impacts
Ability to liaise with higher headquarters, adjacent commands, and external planning organizations
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience coordinating total force structure programs between Reserve and Active Components
Experience in a Combatant Command or Service Headquarters developing and delivering strategic briefings and participating in planning conferences
Experience with Global Force Management principles and guidance, such as GFMIG, GFMAP, GEF, JSCP, or CPG
Experience reviewing and updating operational directives, orders, and policies
Experience with task management systems such as ETMS2 and AMHS
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree
Completion of a Marine Corps Intermediate Level School or joint equivalent

Responsibilities

developing orders
coordinating exercises
aligning future operations initiatives
identifying and evaluating policies and processes to enable integrated execution of joint and service strategies across DOTMLPF domains
collaborating with operational planners to ensure continuity between planning and execution
participating in working groups and planning conferences to synchronize efforts across Service, DoD, and Joint Staff stakeholders
providing decision support that informs operational readiness and Global Force Management alignment
evaluating complex challenges
identifying blind spots
recommending opportunities to inform senior military decision-makers