Psychological Operations Planner, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; Stuttgart; On-site; EUR 77,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking a Senior Psychological Operations Planner to lead PSYOP planning for a Combatant Command. You will conduct deliberate and contingency planning, coordinate with HQs and interagency partners, and provide input to plans, orders, and briefings for senior leaders.

Requirements include 7+ years in PSYOP planning, Joint Planning Cycle experience, and TS/SCI clearance. The role includes opportunities to mentor teammates and advance expertise in information environment analysis.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with PSYOP planning.
• Experience employing the Joint Planning Cycle.
• Experience briefing senior leadership.
• Experience staffing PSYOP products through approval processes, including virtual contact with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with complex problem-solving and using appropriate methodologies.
• TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Completion of Command and General Staff College or U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.

Responsibilities

• Lead for a Combatant Command's PSYOP program.
• Conduct deliberate and contingency PSYOP planning.
• Coordinate and integrate with higher headquarters, components, DoW, and interagency actors.
• Provide PSYOP input to strategic and operational plans and orders.
• Prepare information papers, decision papers, and briefings for senior leadership.
• Mentor and share expertise with other analysts.

Skills

PSYOP planning

Joint Planning Cycle

Brief senior leadership

Staffing PSYOP products

Complex problem solving

TS/SCI clearance

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Command and General Staff College / Senior Service College

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Agentic AI tools

Job description

Psychological Operations Planner, Senior The Opportunity: Critical decisions are made every single day in the military. What if you could use your analytical skills to help them make informed decisions? With all the information available today, it takes a skilled analyst to know how to find and interpret the best data to give their customers the right answers. As a Psychological Operations (PSYOP) planner, you use your specialized technical skills and experience and your attention to detail to develop products to give your customer the information and expertise they need. If you have strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset, we have an opportunity to use those skills to support our warfighters. As a PSYOP planner, you’ll help your customer understand their information environment. You’ll serve as lead for a Combatant Command's PSYOP program, conduct deliberate and contingency PSYOP planning, functional plan development and validation, coordination, and integration in conjunction with higher headquarters, components, DoW, and U.S. government interagency actors. You’ll provide PSYOP-relevant quality input to strategic and operational plans, contingency plans, operations orders, execution orders, fragmentary orders, and strategic operational analysis reports and provide doctrine, operations, policy, and authorities subject matter expertise and integration of lessons learned to support senior leader decision making. You’ll conduct and validate research and analysis and prepare information papers, decision papers, and briefings to inform customer leadership. As the authority on your topic, your customer will look to you for time critical recommendations, often under pressure. This is a chance to grow your expertise and broaden your skillset. You’ll share your expertise with other analysts through leadership and mentoring. We focus on growing as a team to deliver the best support to our customers, so you’ll have resources to learn new skills and tools. Join us as we provide the right information at the right time to support the critical needs of our warfighters. Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 7+ years of experience with PSYOP planning
• Experience employing the Joint Planning Cycle
• Experience briefing senior leadership
• Experience staffing PSYOP products through approval processes, including virtual contact with multiple stakeholders
• Experience with complex problem-solving and using appropriate methodologies
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• Completion of Command and General Staff College or U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with security cooperation planning and operations
• Experience at the Combatant Command level
• Experience with USEUCOM AOR operations
• Experience coordinating with NATO, allies, and partners
• Experience with Command and Control of the Information Environment (C2IE)
• Experience using Palantir tools, including Foundry, and Agentic AI tools for planning
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including professional publication-quality writing and technical editing skills
• Master's degree
• Graduate of Senior Service College
• Project Management Professional Certification

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.
• Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

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Work Model

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

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