Cyber Exercise Planner: Lead Design & Evaluation

Via Logic LLC; United States; Remote; USD 52,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Exercise Planner to support the National Cybersecurity Exercise Program. You will contribute to exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation, coordinating with DHS/CISA stakeholders and leading documentation efforts across multiple exercises nationwide.

Strong writing, organization, and time-management skills are required. FEMA HSEEP certification or ability to obtain it within 30 days is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in HSEEP exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation.
• Strong writing skills to develop polished exercise materials and post-exercise products.
• Ability to coordinate with DHS/CISA stakeholders across government and private-sector environments.
• FEMA HSEEP Certification or ability to achieve certification within 30 days of contract start.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead aspects of exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation on a team working concurrently on multiple exercises across the country.
• Communicate and coordinate regularly across exercise support team, with Senior Exercise Planners, Exercise Leads, and with exercise stakeholders.
• Participate in meetings with Senior Exercise Planners and Regional Exercise Leads regularly to ensure timely production of materials and exercise execution.
• Support and participate in planning meetings (as appropriate), such as C&O, IP, MPM, MSEL Meeting, and FPM, and in developing all supporting documentation, including agendas, presentations, and notes/meeting minutes.
• Support the development of core exercise documentation and artifacts (e.g., CONOPS, EXPLAN, SITMAN, MSEL, COSIN, evaluation forms, invitations/sign-in sheets).
• Support end-to-end exercise execution: concept and scope, execution support, evaluation approach, and post-exercise reporting (AAR and assigned reports).
• Support creation and maintenance of exercise documentation packages (e.g., invitations, sign-in sheets, meeting notes, and other administrative documents).
• Support participant registration and tracking activities using technical tools provided/used by the program.
• Support collection and organization of findings, recommendations, and lessons learned for post-exercise products.
• Report regularly to Exercise Leads and across exercise support team according to communications plan.
• Attend and participate in each exercise within assigned region, as required.
• Support development of new CISA Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEPs) and maintenance of the CTEP scenario library.
• Support internal training activities to improve facilitation and planning skills across NCEP staff.
• Support program operations tasks as directed (e.g., maintaining an exercise calendar, assisting with content organization on CISA.gov/other platforms, supporting all-hands coordination).
• Ability to work on Eastern time zone hours; ability to be on camera on Microsoft Teams for meetings where required.

Skills

HSEEP exercise design

Stakeholder coordination

Program execution support

Written communication

Time management

DHS Suitability / CISA EOD (ability to

Education

FEMA HSEEP Certification

FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP)

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Exercise Planner to support the National Cybersecurity Exercise Program. You will contribute to exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation, coordinating with DHS/CISA stakeholders and leading documentation efforts across multiple exercises nationwide.

Strong writing, organization, and time-management skills are required. FEMA HSEEP certification or ability to obtain it within 30 days is expected.