Military Operational Planner

Booz Allen Hamilton•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

Military Operational 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 Senior Military Operations Planner, you’ll bring your strategic perspective and service-level operational and organizational expertise to work alongside thought leaders in defense strategy and planning. You’ll leverage your experience to support a Service Headquarters organization through research, analysis, and assessment of service strategies, plans, and implementation efforts. You’ll identify and evaluate complex policies, processes, and systems to enable integrated execution of joint and service strategies across DOTMLPF domains. You’ll participate in planning activities, working groups, and forums to ensure alignment among Service, DoD, and Joint Staff stakeholders on strategies, plans, and their implementation. Work with us to evaluate complex challenges, identify blinds 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 leading strategic-level planning and wargaming for the Marine Corps to inform operational and campaign design
Experience applying Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) and Joint Planning Process (JPP) methodologies to develop POA&Ms, analyze directives, and assess operational impacts
Experience advising senior military and civilian leaders on campaign development, long-range planning, and DoD policy to shape future readiness and strategic decisions
Experience developing strategies and deliberate plans to integrate national and Service-level objectives for operational coherence
Experience analyzing and validating Marine Corps equities in contingency plans and Time-Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD) lists to ensure accurate force allocation and operational readiness
Knowledge of Reserve Component mobilization planning and policy synchronization with DoD and Service initiatives to support force generation
Ability to liaise with higher headquarters, adjacent commands, and external planning organizations to ensure unity of effort
Top Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

10+ years of experience engaging and collaborating with senior executive-level officials to influence strategic outcomes
3+ years of experience coordinating total force structure programs between Reserve and Active Components to optimize force readiness
Experience at a Combatant Command or Service Headquarters developing and delivering strategic briefings to General Officers and senior executives
Experience with interpreted strategic guidance, such as NSS, NDS, or NMS and applied insights to shape operational design and campaign planning across joint and combined environments
Experience with Integrated Global Force Management principles and guidance, such as GFMIG, GFMAP, GEF, JSCP, or CPG to enable accurate force allocation and integrated planning in support of Combatant Command requirements
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree
Graduate of a Military Advanced Warfare School, including SAW, SAMS, MAWS, SAASS, or JAWS

Responsibilities

Research, analysis, and assessment of service strategies, plans, and implementation efforts.
Identify and evaluate complex policies, processes, and systems to enable integrated execution of joint and service strategies across DOTMLPF domains.
Participate in planning activities, working groups, and forums to ensure alignment among Service, DoD, and Joint Staff stakeholders on strategies, plans, and their implementation.
Evaluate complex challenges, identify blinds spots, and recommend opportunities to inform senior military decision-makers.