Senior Strategic Planner

Description

The Senior Strategic Planner performs specific planning requirements and collaborates with military and government personnel to accomplish tasks that support the long-range planning requirements of USCENTCOM. This includes providing technical recommendations to joint planning teams and working groups regarding Joint Planning, the Joint Operational Planning Process, Execution System, Exercise/Training Planning, and Joint Doctrine. This individual also develops and delivers briefs to senior leaders on topics within the scope of the task order.

Duties May Include:

• Conduct all aspects of the Joint Operational Planning Process including Mission Analysis, Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis (Wargaming), COA Comparison, and Decision.
• Conduct orderly handovers of plans for order development to those tasked with execution of the operation, and provide staff with situational awareness and rationale for key decisions necessary to ensure a coherent transition from planning to execution.
• Support the implementation and planning efforts of counterparts in USCENTCOM Component Commands, other key Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, counterparts in other Federal departments and agencies, Allies, Coalition members, and partner nations.
• Provide technical recommendations to joint planning teams and working groups regarding Joint Planning, the Joint Operational Planning Process, Execution System, Exercise and Training Planning, and Joint Doctrine, and develop and deliver briefs to senior leaders on topics within the scope of the task order.
• Provide technical support in evaluating and coordinating USCENTCOM strategies, plans, and policies related to the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility.
• Provide analyses and recommendations for USCENTCOM implementation and planning efforts involving joint, interagency, and multinational partners and allies.
• Provide support and assistance to directed joint planning teams and working groups for coordination between staff and coalition or regional partner representatives for operations in the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility.
• Advise the USCENTCOM Commander's staff (Joint Directorate and below) on strategic and regional concerns.
• Provide analyses, recommendations, and draft products for joint planning teams and working group approval in developing orders, analyses, estimates, and briefings for USCENTCOM leadership and primary staff.
• Provide coordination of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews (MDR) according to legal standards set by governing laws for processing, declassification, and release of information from designated USCENTCOM files. This includes thorough searching of files controlled by CCJ5 for information relevant for government personnel to determine declassification and ability to disseminate information based on detailed knowledge of existing legal statutes and advising CCJ5 on the FOIA and MDR Program in accordance with USCENTCOM directives to ensure plans and orders are properly safeguarded.

Requirements

• TS/SCI
• Bachelor's Degree and be a graduate from one of the following: Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), or Maritime Advanced Warfighting School (MAWS).
• 5 years planning experience with 3+ years planning experience at the Geographic or Functional Combatant Command Headquarters.