SOCCENT J39 Information Operation SME

Vistra Communications•Tampa, FL

About The Position

SOCCENT J39 seeks a highly skilled proactive J39 Information Operations (IO) SME. Here you will serve as a senior Information Operations (IO) planner and subject matter expert. Coordinate with interagency and intelligence community to support development of plans, targets, and Concepts of Operations (CONOPs) supporting planning and execution efforts. Utilize knowledge of joint doctrine and joint planning concepts, to include the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) and Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) process. Apply operational art and operational design in the application of JOPP. Translate, both orally and in writing, technical content and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) found in proposed COAs, OPLANs, and CONPLANs into high-level briefs, point papers, and talking papers.

Requirements

Active Top Secret with SCI.
MA/MS in one of these Disciplines: Social Sciences, Public Policy, Applied Statistics, Operations Research, or Systems Analysis
Joint Professional Military Education Level II or Service Equivalent; Advanced Military Education Levels (i.e. School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS); Service War Colleges).
At least 10 years strategic and operational planning and analysis
At least 5 years’ experience in any of the following: CENTCOM AOR; Military Information Support Operations (MISO); Military Deception (MILDEC); Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD); Operations Research and Systems Analysis (ORSA); CYBER; Antiterrorism and Force Protection (AT/FP); Social Network Analysis (SNA); Special Programs; Interagency Experience, Intelligence Experience
Equivalent combinations of at least 15 years of SOF operational experience and education
U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

Support IO planning, synchronization, and execution.
Conduct research, analysis, and planning to integrate Information Forces (IF) and effects into plans/operations.
Integrate various command elements (to include lower echelon units, service components, and cyberspace community entities) into planning to ensure cyber expertise, as necessary and to deconflict and synchronize with other planning efforts (i.e., Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Military Deception (MILDEC), Civil Affairs (CA), and Influence Operations).
Participate in Video Teleconferences (VTCs) and long-range, strategic planning efforts within USSOCOM and other DoD, Interagency (IA), and non-government Cyber Operations (CO), PSYOP, MILDEC Operations, and Influence Operations participants. This shall include course of action (COA) development, analysis, documentation, vetting, and presentation.
Draft, coordinate, and document CO, CA, PSYOP, MILDEC, and Cyber Enabled Influence Operations strategies, plans, and planning documents.
Provide iterative, written and oral inputs and recommendations, via briefings and point papers/talking points, for the development and refinement of SOCCENT CO, CA, PSYOP, MILDEC and other Influence Operations objectives, priorities, strategies, plans, and planning documents.
Utilize knowledge of joint military operations, including command and control (C2) processes and the military decision making process.
Draft plans and facilitate the execution of CO, CA, PSYOP, and MILDEC operations. Apply senior-level experience and knowledge in CO, CA, PSYOP, and MILDEC operational planning and execution to develop recommendations concerning issues and problems facing SOCCENT, its subordinate entities, and external CO enterprises.
Draft CONOPS, concept plans, operations orders, operations plans, fragmentary orders, execution orders, exercise directives, joint planning products, standard operating procedures, implementation plans, requirements definition and analysis, cyberspace operations TTPs, assessments, and other