Master Strategic Planner

Description

U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) supports a unique joint staff planning need focused on integrating and synchronizing Department of Defense (DoD) military activities with United States Government (USG) strategy. Services include developing inputs to strategies, campaign plans, and concepts of operation that ultimately translate strategic and operational objectives into a series of related activities and operations to achieve desired end states in coordination with other DoD components, USG agencies, allies, coalition members and regional partners.

Duties May Include:

• Organize, direct, and coordinate planning and production of all task order activities.
• Provide analyses, recommendations, and draft products for joint planning team and working group review and approval, and support developing orders, analysis, estimates, and briefings for USCENTCOM leadership and primary staff, Department of Defense, Interagency, Allies, Coalition members, and partner nation leaders.
• Assist with evaluations and recommendations to the respective Divisions and Branches as they direct, coordinate, and conduct a joint combatant command level planning process.
• Provide subject matter expertise on all aspects of the Joint Operational Planning Process including Mission Analysis, Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis (Wargaming), COA Comparison, and Decision.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Plans and Order Development by analyzing COA decisions, mission statements, commander's intent, and guidance to develop plans and/or orders that direct subordinate actions.
• Conduct orderly handovers of plans for order development to those tasked with execution of the operation or campaign and provide situational awareness and rationale to USCENTCOM leadership and staff regarding key decisions for a coherent transition from planning to execution.
• Facilitate coordination across working groups, JPT, OPT, LRPE, administrative support staff, Components, Interagency, Allies, Coalition members, and partners in support of plans, meetings, conferences, and activities in support of plan development.
• Assist with the management of working groups with a comprehensive view of operations by contributing to the preparation of reports, conducting analytical and statistical research, and providing alternative solutions and assessments of the long-range impact of work processes and other implications of studies and projects.
• 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
• Master'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).
• 10 years of planning experience; and a minimum of 5 years' planning experience at a Geographic or Functional Combatant Command Headquarters.