Strategic Planner – National Security Operations

CACI; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 72,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI is seeking a Strategic Planner to advance national security through irregular warfare and operations expertise. This full-time role supports mission-critical advisory, training, and operational support across combatant commands, delivering planning products and briefings to senior leaders.

Based in Tampa, FL, this position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph willingness, up to 25% travel, and extensive experience with military or IC planning processes.

Qualifications

• Active TS clearance w/ SCI eligibility; willing to submit to CI POLY.
• Bachelor of Arts/Science in a relevant field.
• 5 years' experience planning, coordinating, and synchronizing sensitive activities, IW, OIE, CI, HUMINT, and/or compartmented military or IC activities (e.g. IJISTO, SAP, ACCM, etc) at CCMD, Service Component Command, Joint Task Force or equivalent level
• 3 years' experience working in a J3X, J2X, STO/SAP planning cell, Joint Targeting cell or similar organization
• 7 years demonstrated experience with military planning processes including Joint Planning Process (JPP), military decision-making process, joint targeting process, and/or military campaign planning
• Demonstrated experience briefing or delivering written operational concepts to executive/senior-level (GO/FO/SES) decision makers

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates, and synchronizes strategic operations, activities and investments across OIE, IW, compartmented (e.g. STO, SAP, ACCM, etc) and/or sensitive activities, ensuring alignment with commander priorities, approved authorities, and operational timelines.
• Provides planning expertise for SAP-enabled operations, ensuring sensitive capabilities are coherently integrated within broader campaign and strategic objectives.
• Develops, reviews, and refines formal planning products to include estimates, CONOPS, annexes, appendices, and tabs.
• Advises senior leaders on risks, trade-offs, and opportunities associated with sensitive and compartmented operations.
• Develops and coordinates information/intelligence requirements and assessments plans in support of strategic planning.
• Coordinates with Intelligence Community, DoD, interagency, allied, partner and industry, stakeholders to ensure de-confliction, unity of effort, oversight compliance, and capability alignment.
• Produces quality briefs, information papers, recommendations, and documentation supporting strategic planning.
• Supports network or nodal analysis leveraging diverse intelligence, information and data sources to inform operational targeting and mission planning

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science in a relevant field

Job description

CACI is seeking a Strategic Planner to advance national security through irregular warfare and operations expertise. This full-time role supports mission-critical advisory, training, and operational support across combatant commands, delivering planning products and briefings to senior leaders.

Based in Tampa, FL, this position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph willingness, up to 25% travel, and extensive experience with military or IC planning processes.