Exercise Planner

Prescient Edge; Jacksonville (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking company is seeking an Exercise Planner/Intel Ops to support Federal government clients. This role involves capturing lessons learned, developing scenario-based training, and coordinating with various authorities to ensure successful exercise execution. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SOF operations and intelligence, along with a strong background in exercise planning. Join a team that values integrity and offers a supportive work environment, along with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. If you are passionate about making a difference in military training and operations, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary with performance bonuses

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Substantial retirement plan

Career development opportunities

Positive work environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SOF operations and/or intelligence experience required.
• Experience in exercise planning for SOCOM exercises is essential.

Responsibilities

• Capture lessons learned and distribute daily evaluation reports.
• Develop scenario-based training for effective integration of operations.

Skills

SOF operations experience

Intelligence operations

Exercise planning

Military coordination

Logistics planning

ISR management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking an Exercise Planner/Intel Ops to support a Federal government client. As an Exercise Planner/Intel Ops, you will:

• Be responsible for capturing lessons learned during and at the conclusion of exercises. Ensure daily evaluation reports are distributed to each discipline chief, detailing the day-to-day activities and progress of collection, processing, and analyzing.
• Develop scenario-based training suited to evaluate the effective integration of multiple simultaneously executed intelligence operations which employ each of the respective intelligence, logistics, and communications disciplines.
• Develop scenario-based training suited to evaluate the integration of logistics, communications, and intelligence operations within a SOF environment.
• Interact with civilian authorities and law enforcement agencies, manage all Realistic Military Training (RMT) requirements, logistics planning, contracting office interaction, and coordination with contracted exercise support organizations.
• Develop and synchronize all required briefs and reports for exercise execution.
• Support the exercise Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, Disseminate (F3EAD) process and the implementation of Operations and Intelligence Fusion.
• Provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) replicate/support theater-level, live ISR collection management.
• Support the implementation of exercise storylines and vignettes and all exercise master storyline events providing dynamic, on-call scripting during the exercise to ensure all training goals are met.

Benefits

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Requirements

• Must have at least a bachelor’s degree.
• Previous military experience as an E8 or above.
• Must have 10 years of SOF operations and/or intelligence experience as an operator or leader in a Special Mission Unit (SMU); U.S. Army Special Forces; Navy SEALs; Marine Special Operations Command.
• Must have 3 years of experience providing comprehensive exercise planning in support of SOCOM exercises (examples include Ops-Intel planning, ISR, F3EAD, logistics, civilian authorities, realistic military training) OR 1 year of experience planning/supporting MARSOC Training Readiness Exercises (TRX) events as a task lead or equivalent SOF Intel Readiness exercises OR 5 years of experience at an O5 command level as an Ops-Intel planner or a former 160th SOAR Flight Lead.
• 2 years of recent experience as a program manager of contract/task order for a USSOCOM unit.
• Prime or independent contractors must have conducted GOV/local municipality coordination for at least 2 major SOF exercises in urban environments that included RW infil/exfil and MFF infil, AND must have conducted GOV/local municipality coordination for at least 2 SOF training exercises in an urban environment that included explosive breaching in the last 3 years.
• Prime or independent contractors must have coordinated and conducted live fire weapons training in at least 2 complex OCONUS locations in the last 3 years.