Strategic Planner

Horizon Strategies LLC•Tampa, FL

5d•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. Performs joint, interagency, and multinational strategy and operational planning in support of USCENTCOM priorities, plans, orders, and assessments.

Requirements

At least 3 years of planning experience with comprehensive knowledge of Joint Publication 5-0.
Experience in a military or civilian capacity at a Geographic or Functional Combatant Command headquarters.
Proficiency developing joint, interagency, and multinational activities within identified ways, means, and ends.
Experience researching and providing qualitative analysis of kinetic, non-kinetic, lethal, and non-lethal options against state and non-state adversaries.
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.

Nice To Haves

Graduate of JAWS, SAMS, SAASS, SAW, MAWS, or equivalent Senior Service College.
Experience with command-and-control information systems.

Responsibilities

Perform all phases of JOPP and develop plans and orders from approved courses of action and command guidance.
Transition planning products to execution organizations and communicate key decisions and rationale.
Provide analysis and recommendations for high-priority joint, interagency, and multinational planning efforts.
Coordinate implementation and planning with USCENTCOM components, other Combatant Commands, Joint Staff, OSD, federal agencies, allies, coalition members, and partners.
Support JPTs and working groups, including use or learning of C2IE, MAVEN, and other systems used to capture, display, and manipulate data.
Develop analyses, estimates, recommendations, briefings, plans, orders, and draft products.
Provide technical recommendations on joint planning, execution systems, exercises, training, and doctrine.
Coordinate FOIA requests and MDRs for designated CCJ5 files.
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.