Expert Effects Planner with Security Clearance

Prescient Edge; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with performanceBon

Healthcare benefits (Medical, Vision,

Retirement plan

Career development

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge seeks a seasoned Effects Planner to coordinate operational-level planning and integration across commands. The role requires shaping plans aligned with strategic directives and delivering guidance for major operations.

The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, facilitate working groups, and develop measures to assess operational results and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of combined work-related experience with 10+ years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6+ level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in planning activities.

Responsibilities

• The Effects Planner shall facilitate and coordinate all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.
• They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
• Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring plans align with strategic directives.
• Drafts CONPLANs, OPORDs, and planning guidance for major operations and advises staff on interpretation.
• Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.
• Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between subordinate commands.

Skills

Cross-functional planning

Analytic leadership

Strategic guidance

Target development

Operational planning

Job description

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Benefits

• * 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.

Description

• * The Effects Planner shall facilitate and coordinate all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.
• * They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
• * Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.
• * They draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.
• * Should perform tasks such as:
• * Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.
• * Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
• * Conduct analysis to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
• * Develop Measures of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) to assess whether an operation is achieving its intended results.
• * Lead the operational-level target development process, nominating specific targets or actions that support the overall campaign plan.
• * Analyze the results of ongoing operations and provide formal assessments to leadership on their effectiveness.
• * Analyze national-level strategic guidance to ensure all operational plans and priorities are nested within and supportive of strategic directives.
• * Refine, prioritize, and advocate for the plans and resource requirements of subordinate commands during higher-level planning conferences.
• * Draft, write, and staff major special operations related documents, such as Concept of Operations (CONPLANs), Operations Orders (OPORDs), and formal planning guidance.
• * Serve as the subject matter expert on a published plan, advising military staff and subordinate units on its interpretation, application, and intent.
• * Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leaders on the details of a proposed or current plan, outlining the intended effects and synchronization.

Desired Experience

• * Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience with minimum of 10 years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6 or higher level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
• * Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• * Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with Planning activities.
• * Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher).
• * Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning teams
• * Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.