Joint SOF Readiness - SME (Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance Required)

Akima; Eglin Air Force Base (FL); On-site; USD 155,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Akima Systems Engineering seeks an experienced Joint SOF Operations Readiness SME to join our MacDill AFB team in Florida. The role focuses on planning, executing, and assessing joint and multinational training to enhance staff readiness and mission success, using LVC tools to connect physical assets with synthetic threats across domains.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of SOF background, experience advising senior staff, and a track record of coordinating joint exercises with TSOCs, CCMDs, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of SOF experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years planning & executing joint exercises using JTS.
• Direct briefing / advising at flag level (O-5 to GO/FO).
• Synchronizing training across TSOCs and CCMD staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide command-level readiness insight, decision support, and integration guidance.
• Track unit, staff, and enterprise-level readiness trends over time.
• Advising during distributed or in-person readiness events, providing real-time and post-event recommendations that advance SOF-CF integration and mission command proficiency.
• Hands-on use of JTS, JTT, and DRRS to assess readiness and improve training outcomes.
• Support activities may include planning logic, synchronization across warfighting functions, and prioritization.

Skills

SOF operations

Joint readiness

Staff advisory

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Joint Training System (JTS)

DRRS

JTT

Job description

Akima Systems Engineering, an AKIMA Company is looking for a Joint SOF Operations Readiness Subject Matter Expert to join our team at MacDill AFB, FL. This position supports Joint Force battle staff by planning, executing, and assessing joint and multinational training and readiness events that enhance staff and improve mission readiness. Responsibilities include advising and mentoring CCMD/TSOC staff to accurately represent SOF context in realistic scenarios across mission sets, warfighting functions, and multi-domain operations. This involves using LVC tools and systems to connect physical assets with synthetic threats across various domains. This role requires leveraging experience in LVC event planning and execution to enhance force readiness for CCMDs and TSOCs.

Responsibilities

Support shall span the full lifecycle of USSOCOM collective training and readiness events to include but not limited to:

Governance And Advisory Support For

• Provide command-level readiness insight, decision support, and integration guidance.
• Recommend improvements to planning systems, battle rhythm flows, information routing, and risk logic.
• Track unit, staff, and enterprise-level readiness trends over time.
• Deliver non-directive advisory support that strengthens decision-making, enhances integration awareness, and informs commander understanding.
• Support activities may include but is not limited to:
  • Providing domain-specific guidance to staff and command groups.
  • Assisting with planning logic, synchronization across warfighting functions, decision framing, and prioritization.
  • Advising during distributed or in-person readiness events, providing real-time and post-event recommendations that advance SOF-CF integration and mission command proficiency.

Qualifications

Senior Leader Integration

• Directly briefing / advising O-5 through GO/FO.
• Synchronizing training across TSOCs, SOF Components, CCMD staff, Services, and Interagency partners.

Joint Readiness & Assessment Functions

• Application of UJTL / JMETL / Joint doctrine.
• Development of AARs, Readiness assessments, Training improvement plans.
• Hands-on use of JTS, JTT, and DRRS.

Operational Design & Crisis Response

• Working knowledge of Operational Design.
• Understanding of SOF crisis response operations.
• Experience in primary role at USSOCOM, TSOC, Service HQ, Joint Staff, OSW, 3-4 Star HQ.
• 12+ years of SOF experience.
• E-8+ / CW3+ / O-4+.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years planning & executing joint exercises using JTS.
• Operational application of warfighting functions and SOF core activities in a Joint SOF HQ environment.
• Full-spectrum training event management in accordance with CJCSM 3500.03-series.
• 4+ years Joint operations or operational-strategic SOF planning.
• Ensured SOF mission sets are fully represented in exercise objectives, events, and assessment.

Clearance

Active TS/SCI Required

Job ID

2026-25715

Work Type

On-Site

Company Description

Akima Systems Engineering (ASE), an Akima company, is not just another federal systems support contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At ASE, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders

ASE provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers

ASE delivers solutions in maritime IT, systems engineering, and integration across the Department of Defense and stands ready to help improve operational performance at a reasonable and sustainable cost.

As an ASE employee

You will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.

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