Effects Planner - Expert

Please Note:This position is pending a contract award.  If you are interested in a future with Cherokee Federal, APPLY TODAY!  Although this is not an approved position, we are accepting applications for this future and anticipated need.

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence Polygraph to be considered. 

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.  You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Cherokee Strategic Edge is seeking an Effects Planner to support USSOCOM. The Effects Planner facilitates and coordinates all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration. 

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.  Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Effects Planner - Expert Responsibilities Include: 

• Provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.

• Refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.

• Draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.

• Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.

• Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.

• Conduct analysis to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.

• Develop Measures of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) to assess whether an operation is achieving its intended results.

• Lead the operational-level target development process, nominating specific targets or actions that support the overall campaign plan.

• Analyze the results of ongoing operations and provide formal assessments to leadership on their effectiveness.

• Analyze national-level strategic guidance to ensure all operational plans and priorities are nested within and supportive of strategic directives.

• Refine, prioritize, and advocate for the plans and resource requirements of subordinate commands during higher-level planning conferences.

• Draft, write, and staff major special operations related documents, such as Concept of Operations (CONPLANs), Operations Orders (OPORDs), and formal planning guidance.

• Serve as the subject matter expert on a published plan, advising military staff and subordinate units on its interpretation, application, and intent.

• Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leaders on the details of a proposed or current plan, outlining the intended effects and synchronization.

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Effects Planner - Expert Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested: 

• Current TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph

• Master’s degree in Public Policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate
• Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience with minimum of 10 years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6 or higher level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with Planning activities.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning teams
• Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections. 
• Ability to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
• Skilled at translating complex operational problems into clear, concise briefings and reports that directly inform planning and operations.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy to tackle difficult and ambiguous planning scenarios. 
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

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Keywords:

• MDMP

• Special Technical Operations

• CONOPS

• OPORDS

• Information Operations