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Senior Joint Fires Integration SME TS/SCI

Appcast$134K — $241K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of military experience, including 5+ years in staff planning or operations.
  • 8+ years in joint kinetic/non-kinetic fires or targeting, with COCOM or joint-staff experience.
  • Demonstrated JADO and joint planning expertise, with knowledge of joint targeting cycles.
  • Experience in planning and assessing joint exercises, translating findings into actionable insights.
  • Proven ability to serve as a senior customer interface and define requirements based on customer intent.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, coupled with operational assessment abilities.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary liaison between contractor team and government leadership.
  • Identify, analyze, and articulate operational requirements within the joint fires enterprise.
  • Integrate lessons learned from modernization efforts across combatant commands.
  • Provide JADO expertise to shape processes and products.
  • Track joint targeting cycles to maintain a global perspective on operations.
  • Engage with DoD stakeholders and support joint exercises and events.
  • Supervise team SMEs, ensuring quality deliverable and client reporting.

Benefits

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

Job Posting

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Joint Fires Integration SME Site Lead to join our team! In this role the Site Lead anchors the team as the senior on-site integrator and primary customer interface, and sets the bar for the three SMEs.

What You'll Be Doing:
  • Serve as the primary liaison between the contractor team and government leadership, including the supported J32 Joint Fires Division and HQ USPACOM's J3 Joint Fires Division and IJFC, providing input and coordination for TTPs, CONOPs, policies, and workflows.
  • Identify, analyze, and articulate requirements and supporting products for planning and operational execution, integrating across Services, Allies, and Partner Nations within the joint fires enterprise.
  • Integrate lessons learned and best practices from comparable joint fires modernization efforts across combatant commands to inform the supported command's capability development.
  • Provide JADO subject-matter expertise grounded in joint and Service doctrine (e.g., JP 3-0 joint operations and JADO fundamentals, AFDP 3-0, AFDP 3-60) to shape the cell's processes and products.
  • Track joint targeting cycles and battle rhythms across combatant commands to maintain the global-integration perspective that links kinetic and non-kinetic effects.
  • Engage DoD stakeholders and support joint exercises, experimentation, and constructive, virtual, and live events, including exercise observation, data capture, and lessons-learned integration.
  • Supervise and integrate the work of the team's targeting, integration, and assessment SMEs; own deliverable quality and customer reporting.
  • Occasional travel to Stuttgart Germany (USEUCOM)


What Required Skills You'll Bring:
  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of military experience, including 5+ years in staff planning, capabilities, strategy, or operational technology.
  • 8+ years in joint kinetic and/or non-kinetic fires, targeting, or intelligence, with COCOM or joint-staff-level experience.
  • Demonstrated JADO and joint planning expertise, with working knowledge of the joint targeting cycle and F2T2EA.
  • Experience planning, observing, or assessing joint exercises and translating observations into lessons learned and process improvements.
  • Proven ability to act as a senior customer interface and translate ambiguous customer intent into requirements, TTPs, and CONOPs.
  • Excellent written and oral communication, knowledge management, and operational assessment skills.
  • U.S. citizen.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).


What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
  • Weapons School and/or PME graduate; Joint Targeting Course or Target Development Course.
  • Prior combatant command or joint staff experience in a fires or operations role.
  • Familiarity with JFN, IJFC, CJADC2, and ABMS.
  • Familiarity with Maven Smart System (MSS) and its associated tool suites
  • Familiarity with one or more of: Service and component fires enterprises, Air Operations Center (AOC) operations, and C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) integration.
  • Experience supporting joint capability development, experimentation, or assessment efforts.
  • Supervisory or team-lead experience on a government services contract.


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: $134,100.00 - $241,400.00

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!

About Appcast

Appcast is a global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology. More than just a job board, Appcast?s programmatic recruitment advertising exchange connects employers and job seekers through real-time bidding and automatic job ad optimization. Appcast?s proprietary technology and advanced data analysis tools enable employers to source and hire top talent quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Appcast is headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire, with offices in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, London, Manchester, and Budapest.
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