Regional Operations Planner / Nf4

U.S. Marine Corps•Oceanside, CA

32d•Onsite

About The Position

Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) is seeking a Regional Operations Planner to join their team. This role is crucial for supporting and enhancing the quality of life for Marines, their families, and the wider Marine Corps Community. The position operates within a team-oriented environment, contributing to the smooth and effective functioning of the organization. The Regional Operations Planner will serve in both current and future operations sections, enabling comprehensive near, mid, and long-term planning. This role is responsible for the long-range planning, development, and management of complex, multi-disciplinary projects across four geographically dispersed Installations, while also coordinating with additional adjacent Installations for Regional matters. The position routinely coordinates efforts on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST with Headquarters Marine Corps (MR/MF and MCICOM). It involves planning and implementing various initiatives in partnership with adjacent staff sections, Major Subordinate Commands, Installations, and MCCS Divisions, overseeing projects from initial concept through completion. The planner ensures alignment with installation master plans, regional strategic goals, and budgetary constraints. They act as an MCCS expert and advisor to the MCCS Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on technical and operational matters, ensuring detailed, effective, and well-designed planning efforts across all lines of effort. The position regularly attends meetings on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST focused on MCCS operations, planning, and support coordination efforts, ensuring effective efforts within current/future operations. The planner applies analytical and project management expertise to plan, coordinate, and execute regionally significant initiatives, integrating input across all MCCS functional areas and Installations. They ensure appropriate progress, objectives, and requirements are met. This role involves developing comprehensive briefs and preparing for and briefing MCCS issues across a myriad of functional areas. The planner serves as a key planner in areas representing MCCS MCIWEST in special events, large-scale efforts, and visits. They coordinate with MCCS Divisions, Installation staff, and external entities to ensure compliance and mission alignment. The role includes planning and coordinating current operations in support of special events, ceremonies, and command support efforts. The planner participates as a key member of the Regional Defense Operations Center (RDOC) and a member of the Crisis Action Team (CAT). This position serves as a primary liaison between MCCS MCIWEST Installations and internal/external stakeholders, preparing and delivering briefings to senior leadership. They participate and serve as the primary contact for coordination of cross-functional working groups, operational planning teams, conferences, and training events. The role contributes to the development of a 5-10 year strategic plan supporting revenue generation, programmatic delivery, and event coordination. This position encompasses the overall execution of highly visible MCCS Regional programming and support through the implementation of goals and objectives. It serves as a primary planner for coordination of functionality assessments and other high-level visits to both the Installation and Region. The planner provides weekly MCCS operations updates to the Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on all current/future operations requirements. This position assists with the coordination of operations with and in support of MCCS activities at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. Additional coordination efforts and responses to taskers are required as needed with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and the Service Level Training Installations (SLTI). The planner coordinates across the Installations and with all commands to enable highly effective, responsive, and timely MCCS support across the full spectrum of MCCS capabilities. They coordinate staff actions impacting MCCS across and with all MCIWEST-Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton staff sections at the Regional level, along with other adjacent and supported units.

Requirements

A minimum of four years' related experience that demonstrates the applicant has acquired the knowledge, skills, and abilities related to operations planning to effectively participate in planning processes.
Relevant education may be used as a substitute for experience.
Knowledge of military command structure, policies, and procedures is required.
Ability to operate computer and associated software is required.
Must have the ability to deal courteously, effectively, and tactfully with others, even in stressful environments.
Flexibility in working conditions and hours is required.
Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of MCCS management policies, concepts, practices, and principles in order to support operations and administrative planning and coordination is preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a Regional Operations Planner within Marine Corps Community Services, Marine Corps Installations West-Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Enable comprehensive near, mid, and long-term planning in both current and future operations sections.
Responsible for comprehensive long-range planning, development, and management of complex, multi-disciplinary projects across four geographically dispersed Installations.
Coordinate with additional adjacent Installations for Regional matters.
Routinely coordinate efforts on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST with Headquarters Marine Corps (MR/MF and MCICOM).
Routinely coordinate, plan, and implement various initiatives in partnership with adjacent staff sections, Major Subordinate Commands, Installations, and MCCS Divisions.
Oversee projects from initial concept through completion, ensuring alignment with installation master plans, regional strategic goals, and budgetary constraints.
Act as an MCCS expert and advisor to the MCCS Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on technical and operational matters.
Ensure detailed, effective, and well-designed planning efforts across all lines of effort.
Regularly attend meetings on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST focused on MCCS operations, planning, and support coordination efforts.
Ensure effective efforts within current/future operations.
Apply analytical and project management expertise to plan, coordinate, and execute regionally significant initiatives.
Integrate input across all MCCS functional areas and Installations.
Ensure appropriate progress, objectives, and requirements are met.
Develop comprehensive briefs while preparing for and briefing MCCS issues across a myriad of functional areas.
Serve as a key planner in areas representing MCCS MCIWEST in special events, large scale efforts, and visits.
Coordinate with MCCS Divisions, Installation staff, and external entities to ensure compliance and mission alignment.
Plan and coordinate current operations in support of special events, ceremonies, and command support efforts.
Participate as a key member of the Regional Defense Operations Center (RDOC) and member of the Crisis Action Team (CAT).
Serve as a primary liaison between MCCS MCIWEST Installations and internal/external stakeholders.
Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leadership.
Participate and serve as the primary contact for coordination of cross-functional working groups, operational planning teams, conferences, and training events.
Contribute to the development of a 5-10 year strategic plan supporting revenue generation, programmatic delivery, and event coordination.
Oversee the execution of highly visible MCCS Regional programming and support through the implementation of goals and objectives.
Serve as a primary planner for coordination of functionality assessments and other high-level visits to both the Installation and Region.
Provide weekly MCCS operations updates to the Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on all current/future operations requirements.
Assist with the coordination of operations with and in support of MCCS activities at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
Coordinate additional efforts and respond to taskers as needed with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and the Service Level Training Installations (SLTI).
Coordinate across the Installations and with all commands to enable highly effective, responsive, and timely MCCS support across the full spectrum of MCCS capabilities.
Coordinate staff actions impacting MCCS across and with all MCIWEST-Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton staff sections at the Regional level along with other adjacent and supported units.
Make recommendations for implementing decisions on improving the effectiveness of work methods, procedures, organizations, planning, and establishing organizational goals and objectives through information management and administrative processes.
Ensure highly effective coordination to achieve unity of effort to enable MCCS goals, objectives, and mission success through the coordinated efforts of ten Divisions supporting five Installations directly within the MCIWEST area along with support as needed to the SLTI's.
Assist with timely and effective tracking, consolidation, and response to taskers from HQMC, MCICOM, MR/MF, or supported commands.
Track and respond to taskers through appropriate systems and platforms.
Ensure tasks are prioritized in support of the intent provided by the MCCS leadership.
Participate as a key member of the staff that implements the Marine Corps Planning Process.
Represent MCCS on various committees or with adjacent organizations.
Perform duties for military-related social functions and coordinate MCCS participation/support for military base training operations.
Coordinate activities involving civilian agencies.
Monitor time-sensitive and high-profile projects.
Gather necessary data through research or from available resources, analyze data, produce useful information, and use that information to format necessary reports and directives for approval from the MCCS AC/S and Deputy AC/S.
Respond to and draft into appropriate format briefing slides, correspondence, statistical material, reports, special projects, and notes for briefs to commands at all levels.
Provide guidance to and synchronization of current and future operations impacting MCCS across the full portfolio of support efforts.
Establish and maintain turnover file on recurring activities.
Supervise the coordinated planning to include: operational planning teams, integrated planning, and lead special projects.
Prepare read aheads, Quad Charts, Briefs, Information and Decision papers, and reports.
Participate as a representative during the planning and execution of MCCS efforts in Force Protection Exercises.
Serve as one of the primary MCCS representatives in the MCIWEST RDOC.
Represent MCCS on various committees, planning teams to ensure the organization's operations, resources, and capabilities are effectively implemented.
Coordinate with and across the Operations sections to ensure timely response, submission, and coordination is achieved through both recurring and unanticipated organizational requirements, tasking, and planning.
Assist with the effective coordination with Higher Headquarters to include MCICOM, HQMC MR/MF, and all supported commands.