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IO Planner - Special Activities Planner (SAP) Specialist

Strategic Resilience Group

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Fort Meade, MD
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph
Career Level not specified
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Job Description

Position Responsibilities

  • Provide SAP core capability support and sensitive operational products across steady-state ops, contingencies, crisis action, disaster relief, and exercises
  • Integrate information-related capabilities and sensitive activities into OPORDs, annexes/appendices/tabs, and evaluation or assessment plans
  • Review, analyze, and advise leadership on impacts of national-level strategy, policy, and joint doctrine
  • Develop IO planning products (appendices, annexes, tabs, estimates) supporting capabilities such as EW, OIE support, MILDEC, cyberspace operations, OPSEC, and IJSTO
  • Research, analyze, assess, and help operationalize information-related tools and capabilities (including EW, MISO/PSYOP, MILDEC, CO, OPSEC, IJSTO)
  • Support planning, staffing, coordination, execution, and assessment of sensitive activities
  • Contribute to focused outreach, experiments, and scientific application integration where required.


Required Qualifications

  • Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree with 8+ years planning experience, or 12+ years total combined education and relevant experience (additional experience may substitute for degree requirements)
  • Training: Special Activities Planners Course completion (required)
  • Career field experience: Background in IO / MISO / PSYOP (e.g., 30/37A/37F)
  • SAP planning depth: Minimum 5 years SAP planning at service or joint level supporting CCMDs or JTFs, especially tied to cyber operations
  • Demonstrated knowledge integrating special capabilities and SAP operations into JOPP/MDMP, campaign planning, targeting, and IO plans/orders
  • Working knowledge of IO, MILDEC, OPSEC, EW, and cyberspace operations, and how to synchronize joint capabilities and activities
  • Experience coordinating and synchronizing adjacent/supporting operations with interagency and intelligence community entities, including intelligence requirement coordination
  • Familiarity with Service component functions (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force) and how they coordinate through CCMD channels


Preferred Qualifications

  • Current polygraph
  • Recent joint or service-level IO planning experience
  • Current or recent SAP work supporting USCYBERCOM planning efforts
  • Experience integrating MISO/PSYOP into cyber plans and operations
  • Strong knowledge of command relationships and C2 procedures; ability to coordinate SAP actions through proper channels and policy
  • Experience coordinating with DoD program managers/coordinators and interagency partners (including ACCM-related coordination)
  • Executive-level briefing skills (oral, written, visual), with the ability to persuade and gain stakeholder alignment
  • Relevant advanced courses (examples): Joint Cyber Operations Planner, Joint IO Planner, Defense OPSEC Planner, SOF MILDEC Planner, Irregular Warfare, and related targeting/analysis courses
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Strategic Resilience Group is a privately held business, founded in 2015, driven with the purpose of helping clients execute strategies in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. We are a team of proven business leaders, veterans, and experienced engineers working to create enduring solutions for our client's most influential and prominent problems. We integrate proven practices from private industry, the public sector, and national defense, using these resources to shape and guide the actions necessary to be taken for each specific client.

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