Senior OIE Planner

• Integrates OIE objectives into campaign and operational plans, ensuring information effects align with commander intent and operational design. 

• Synchronizes information forces and capabilities with maneuver, joint fires, and non-kinetic activities to achieve desired effects in the information environment. 

• Designs, authors, and integrates OIE OPORD inputs, annexes, appendices, tabs, and supporting planning products into joint planning and execution. 

• Integrates intelligence, targeting, and collection requirements to inform OIE planning, execution, and decision-making. 

• Develops and incorporates measures of performance and effectiveness, evaluation frameworks, and assessment plans to support continuous monitoring, adaptation, and refinement of OIE activities. 

• Coordinates and synchronizes OIE planning and execution with interagency partners, allies, coalition forces, academia, industry vendors, and DoD/DoW stakeholders to ensure unity of effort and de-confliction. 

• Integrates DoD/DoW Rewards Program planning into OIE efforts to incentivize desired behaviors, enable information collection, and support operational objectives in accordance with authorities. 

• Ensures legal, policy, attribution, and operational risk considerations are embedded in OIE plans while producing decision-quality OIE assessments, briefs, and recommendations for senior leaders. 

• Conducts senior/executive-level briefings to GO/FO/SES decision-makers to secure approval for OIE concepts, plans, and operations. 

Qualifications: 

Required:  

• Active Top Secret security clearance, with SCI eligibility

• Bachelors of Arts/Bachelors of Science degree in a relevant field such as Strategic Communications, International Relations, Political Science, Behavioral Science, Military Science, or another applicable field 

• 5+ years of experience planning, coordinating, synchronizing and/or executing operations in the information environment (i.e. Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Operations Security (OPSEC), Defense Deception Activities, Electronic Warfare, Cyberspace Operations, Public Affairs, and/or Information Operations) \

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in military planning processes including Joint Planning Process (JPP), military decision-making process, joint targeting process, and/or military campaign planning 

• Proficient in standard military software applications and communication systems 

• Completion of advanced OIE-relevant training such as FA30 Information Operations Qualification Course, Joint Information Planners Course (JIPC (formerly JIOPC)), OPSEC Planners Course, MILDEC Planners Course, PSYOP Planners Course, and/or Joint Targeting School 

Desired:  

• Active TS/SCI clearance

• Comfortable with military planning at the operational level, to include experience at CCMD, Service Component Command, and/or Joint Task Force level

• Experience coordinating and synchronizing military operations with multinational and/or interagency teammates

• Successful prior experience briefing IO/OIE concepts to senior/executive-level decision makers