OPSEC Planner - Journeyman

Appcast

$74K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree
  • Current/active TS/SCI security clearance or higher
  • Strong understanding of Operations Security methodologies
  • Ability to conduct risk assessments and make informed recommendations
  • Experience collaborating with multi-domain operational teams
  • Knowledge of adversary intelligence collection capabilities and countermeasures

Responsibilities

  • Apply OPSEC methodologies to ensure risk and protective measures are integrated throughout planning and execution
  • Conduct OPSEC assessments to evaluate vulnerabilities and support decision-making
  • Maintain balance between protective measures and operational visibility
  • Analyze adversary capabilities to inform OPSEC strategies
  • Recommend countermeasures and shape OPSEC planning documents
  • Incorporate OPSEC into wargames, exercises, and contingency planning
  • Develop and present OPSEC training and awareness activities

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid time off and flexible work schedules
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Life insurance
  • Holidays to accommodate work-life balance
Full Job Description

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented OPSEC Planner - Journeyman to join our team! In this role you will get to support the integration of Operations Security (OPSEC) within Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) to help protect friendly intentions, capabilities, and vulnerabilities while enabling effective informationrelated activities.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Applies established OPSEC methodologies to ensure that risk, exposure, and protective measures are considered throughout planning, execution, and assessment in support of J39 priorities across competition, crisis, and conflict. Identifies and helps manage critical information (CI) by analyzing how friendly actions, messaging, and behaviors across the physical, informational, and human domains could create risk or reveal operational insights to adversaries.

  • Conducts OPSEC assessments to evaluate vulnerabilities associated with planned or ongoing activities and contributes riskinformed recommendations that support commander and planner decisionmaking. Coordinates with OIE planners, MISO/PSYOP teams, MILDEC planners, EMSO elements, cyber operators, and other Information Forces to ensure OPSEC considerations are aligned with influence, deception, and multidomain operational effects.

  • Works to maintain balance between protective measures and the operational need for messaging, visibility, and action in the information environment.

  • Analyzes adversary intelligence collection capabilities, technical sensors, and information exploitation methods to understand how opponents could detect, interpret, or target friendly posture and activities.

  • Uses this understanding to recommend countermeasures, shaping OPSEC inputs to planning documents, execution synchronizations, and assessment updates.

  • Supports the incorporation of OPSEC into wargames, rehearsals, exercises, and contingency planning by identifying likely exposure points, validating assumptions, and contributing to risk assessments.

  • Assists in developing OPSEC training, briefings, and awareness activities that reinforce operational discipline and riskinformed decisionmaking across staff sections and mission partners.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

  • Bachelors degree and 5+ years experience. Years of comparable experience can be used in lieu of degree. (HS diploma 8+ years, Associates 6+ years, Masters 3+ years)
  • Must have a current/active TS/SCI clearance or higher.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Salary Range: $74,800.00 - $130,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer tohttps://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.

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