Job Title
Expert Effects Planner
Location
Tampa, FL 33621 US (Primary)
Category
Intelligence
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Staff
Education
Master's Degree
Travel
Security Clearance Required
TS/SCI
Job Description
Prescient Edge is seeking a
Expert Effects Planner to support a Federal Government client.
Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.Benefits:At
Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:
- A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
- A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
- Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
- A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
Description:- The Effects Planner shall facilitate and coordinate all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.
- They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
- Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.
- They draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.
- Should perform tasks such as:
- 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.
Job Requirements
Desired experience:- 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 policymakers (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.
- Works with a high degree of autonomy to tackle difficult and ambiguous planning scenarios.
Education:- Master's degree in public policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate.
Security clearance: - Active TS/SCI and with the ability to obtain a CI Poly if needed.
Location:- HQ USSOCOM, MacDill AFB, FL.
