Description
The Joint Exercise Event SME supports the design, planning, execution, and assessment of standalone joint exercise events, including seminars, tabletop exercises (TTXs), rehearsal-of-concept (ROC) drills, senior-leader discussions, wargames, and related activities. The selected candidate will work with event sponsors, stakeholders, planners, participants, and exercise-control personnel to develop event objectives, scenarios, planning products, data-collection approaches, and after-action outputs. USSTRATCOM/J7 conducts this work to support Command readiness, strategic deterrence, and decision-quality assessment for senior leaders.
Security Clearance Requirements
This position requires access to classified systems and material supporting national-security programs. All contractor personnel must be U.S. citizens and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility, as well as eligibility for NC2/ESI and SAP accesses
Requirements
Required Qualifications
• At least 7 years of experience designing, planning, and leading seminars, tabletop exercises, wargames, or similar projects.
• Experience in one or more USSTRATCOM-assigned missions and operations at the Combatant Command, Joint Staff, or Service Major Command level.
• Demonstrated experience conducting joint exercise planning, development, execution, and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to develop event objectives, scenarios, scenario triggers, event-flow products, participant guidance, and data-collection methods.
• Experience supporting or leading exercise planning conferences, working groups, planning teams, and in-progress reviews.
• Experience producing or coordinating exercise and wargaming documentation, including agendas, conference materials, briefing products, control documents, facilitator materials, lessons-learned products, and after-action reports.
• Ability to facilitate senior-level discussions and guide participant interaction toward defined objectives and desired event outcomes.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with USSTRATCOM directorates, Components, Combatant Commands, Joint Staff, Services, interagency organizations, allied partners, and other Government agencies.
• Ability to develop clear, concise, and well-structured written products and oral briefings for senior military and civilian leaders.
• U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications
• Direct experience supporting USSTRATCOM joint exercises, wargames, campaign assessments, collective training, or senior-leader training events.
• Experience with the Joint Event Life Cycle, Joint Exercise Control Group operations, Master Scenario Event List development, exercise-control processes, or Joint Training Tool administration.
• Experience facilitating tabletop exercises, wargames, senior-leader seminars, or White Cell/player-cell events.
• Familiarity with Joint doctrine, the Joint Planning Process, joint training requirements, and USSTRATCOM mission areas.
• Experience producing after-action reports, lessons-learned products, hotwash materials, and corrective-action recommendations.
• Experience supporting events involving interagency organizations, National Security Council processes, allied partners, other Combatant Commands, the White House Military Office, or the National Military Command Center.
