Joint Campaign Planning Specialist (TS/SCI)

LMI; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 163,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI seeks a Planning and Analysis Specialist to support a Department of War mission partner J5 in developing global campaign plans that integrate autonomy into deterrence, campaigning, crisis response, and warfighting strategy.

The specialist conducts structured analysis, prepares deliberate and crisis planning products, supports wargames, and connects operational demand to capability and resourcing decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in national security, international relations, military studies, operations research, political science, engineering, data analytics, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in Joint or Service planning, campaign analysis, strategy, operational design, policy, wargaming, or a closely related mission area.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Knowledge of the Joint Planning Process, campaign planning, deliberate planning, crisis action planning, and operational assessment.
• Experience developing senior-level planning products for the Joint Staff, a combatant command, a Service component, or a comparable national security organization.
• Experience planning or analyzing wargames, tabletop exercises, seminars, or other structured decision events.
• Ability to synthesize intelligence, operational, technical, policy, and organizational inputs into coherent recommendations.
• Strong analytical writing, executive briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and analysis that integrates autonomous systems and artificial intelligence into global campaign plans, theater strategies, contingency plans, and supporting concepts.
• Develop deliberate planning, crisis action planning, campaign assessment, policy coordination, and senior leader decision-support products.
• Apply the Joint Planning Process and other approved planning methodologies to define problems, develop courses of action, assess risk, and recommend actions.
• Conduct structured analysis linking operational demand, threat conditions, capability availability, force posture, policy constraints, and resourcing decisions.
• Plan, facilitate, and analyze wargames, tabletop exercises, seminars, workshops, and planning conferences.
• Coordinate planning inputs with the Joint Staff, combatant commands, Military Services, interagency partners, intelligence organizations, and capability developers.
• Develop assumptions, branches, sequels, decision points, measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, and campaign assessment frameworks.
• Integrate technical assessments of autonomous systems into operational concepts and planning products without overstating capability maturity or readiness.
• Prepare policy papers, information papers, decision memoranda, briefings, and executive summaries for senior military and civilian leaders.
• Maintain planning calendars, action trackers, issue papers, coordination records, and version-controlled planning artifacts.
• Identify gaps between strategic objectives and available capabilities and recommend experimentation, acquisition, force development, or policy actions.
• Represent LMI in Joint planning groups, wargaming forums, policy coordination sessions, and senior leader engagements.

Skills

Joint planning

Wargaming

Analytical writing

Executive briefing

Stakeholder coordination

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in national security or related field

Eight+ years of relevant experience

Tools

MS Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

LMI seeks a Planning and Analysis Specialist to support a Department of War mission partner J5 in developing global campaign plans that integrate autonomy into deterrence, campaigning, crisis response, and warfighting strategy.

The specialist conducts structured analysis, prepares deliberate and crisis planning products, supports wargames, and connects operational demand to capability and resourcing decisions.