Strategy, Plans, Exercises, and Policy Support Services

PROCLEARED LLC • Tampa, FL

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About The Position

U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) supports a unique joint staff planning need focused on integrating and synchronizing Department of Defense (DoD) military activities with United States Government (USG) strategy. Services include developing inputs to strategies, campaign plans, and concepts of operation that ultimately translate strategic and operational objectives into a series of related activities and operations to achieve desired end states in coordination with other DoD components, USG agencies, allies, coalition members and regional partners.

Requirements

• TS/SCI
• Bachelor’s Degree and be a graduate from one of the following: Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), or Maritime Advanced Warfighting School (MAWS).
• 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.
• Proficient in developing joint, interagency, and multinational activities within identified ways, means, and ends.
• Experience in planning, researching, and providing qualitative analysis of kinetic, non-kinetic, lethal, and non-lethal options against state and non-state adversaries.

Responsibilities

• Conduct all aspects of the Joint Operational Planning Process including Mission Analysis, Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis (Wargaming), COA Comparison, and Decision.
• Conduct Plans and Order Development by analyzing COA decisions, mission statements, commander’s intent, and guidance to develop plans and/or orders that direct subordinate actions.
• Conduct orderly handovers of plans for order development to those tasked with execution of the operation, and provide staff with situational awareness and rationale for key decisions necessary to ensure a coherent transition from planning to execution.
• Provide analyses and recommendations in support of high-priority USCENTCOM planning efforts involving joint, interagency, and multinational partners and allies.
• Provide support in the implementation and planning efforts to counterparts in USCENTCOM Component Commands, other Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, counterparts in other Federal departments and agencies, Allies, Coalition Members, and partners.
• Provide support and assistance to directed joint planning teams and working groups by coordinating between Directorates and staffs, and coalition and regional partner representatives for operations in the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility. This includes the ability or willingness to learn program of record systems such as, but not restricted to, Command and Control of the Information Environment (C2IE), MAVEN, or other systems to capture, display, and manipulate data.
• Provide analyses, estimates, recommendations, briefings, and draft products for joint planning team and working group approval to support the development of plans and orders as directed by USCENTCOM leadership and primary staff.
• Provide technical recommendations to joint planning teams and working groups regarding the Joint Operational Planning Process, Joint Operational Planning, Execution System, Exercise and Training Planning, and Joint Doctrine.
• Provide coordination of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews (MDR) according to legal standards set by governing laws for processing, declassification, and release of information from designated USCENTCOM files. This includes thorough searching of files controlled by CCJ5 for information relevant for government personnel to determine declassification and ability to disseminate information based on detailed knowledge of existing legal statutes and advising CCJ5 on the FOIA and MDR Program in accordance with USCENTCOM directives to ensure plans and orders are properly safeguarded.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees