Top Secret/SCI COOP Exercise Strategist

Peraton; Virginia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO

Bonus plan

Enhanced employee benefits

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Business Continuity Exercise Planner to support multi-faceted mission-area requirements. The role emphasizes COOP planning, exercise development, and executive-level briefing duties in a high-security environment.

You will coordinate strategic COOP efforts, craft exercise strategies, and facilitate workforce training while interfacing with customer leadership to ensure continuity readiness and actionable after-action reports.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Eight (8) years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or six (6) years of experience with a master’s degree.
• Five (5) years of professional IC experience in the customer space with three (3) or more years of COOP business analytical experience.
• Four (4) years of additional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning, business planning, briefing/reporting preparation, and other System Integration support across mission areas.
• Develop, write and execute COOP exercises.
• Facilitate training for the workforce.
• Brief upper-level customer leadership.
• Refine specific exercise planning and execution goals with the customer.
• Provide planning documentation, preparation of delivery materials, facilitation and after-action reports.
• Draft an annual exercise strategy/plan with goals, methodology and calendar of proposed exercises.
• Document exercise planning effort and meeting minutes for design, workflow, after action reporting and corrective action planning.
• Assess COOP plans, OPORDS, OPLANS and issuances to develop draft COOP strategy documents.
• Assist with administrative functions of COOP planning for events and exercises.
• Assist with continuity training and exercise requirements, developing continuity exercise curriculum, and supporting continuity bi-annual, annual and frequent exercises.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Business Continuity Exercise Planner to support multi-faceted mission-area requirements. The role emphasizes COOP planning, exercise development, and executive-level briefing duties in a high-security environment.

You will coordinate strategic COOP efforts, craft exercise strategies, and facilitate workforce training while interfacing with customer leadership to ensure continuity readiness and actionable after-action reports.