Senior Intelligence Planning Support Staff Officer

Senior Intelligence Planning Support Staff Officer

Required Clearance: Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility; SAP eligibility required

Location: Pentagon (Arlington, VA)

Position Overview

The Staff Officer SME IV - Intelligence Planning Support serves as Premier's senior advisor to OSIP on the DoW intelligence planning process and the advancement of future ISR capabilities. The role supports OUSW(I&S) oversight of intelligence planning, refining concepts and procedures; provides policy, guidance, and oversight of the intelligence planning process throughout the DoW; coordinates with the Joint Staff, CCMDs, Combat Support Agencies, other DoW organizations, and the IC to assist CCMDs in the development, coordination, and approval of their deliberate plans; and prepares briefings, notes, and papers for senior leadership participation in the DoW plans approval process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

ISR Future Capability Planning

• Contribute to the planning and advancement of future ISR capabilities across the DoW intelligence enterprise.

Intelligence Planning Support

• Support OUSW(I&S) oversight of intelligence planning.

• Refine concepts, procedures, and methodologies for the DoW intelligence planning process.

Support to the Intelligence Planning Process

• Provide policy, guidance, and oversight of the intelligence planning process throughout the DoW.

CCMD Deliberate Planning Coordination

• Coordinate with the Joint Staff, CCMDs, Combat Support Agencies, other DoW organizations, and across the IC to assist CCMDs in the development, coordination, and approval process for their deliberate plans.

Senior Leadership Support for Plans Approval

• Prepare briefings, notes, and papers for senior leadership to support participation in the DoW plans approval process.

Reporting and Deliverables

• Produce decision briefings, white papers, and staff packages on ad hoc schedule (Tech Exhibit 2).

• Produce meeting minutes within five working days of applicable meetings.

• Produce travel trip reports within ten working days when requested.

• Contribute content to the Contractor's Monthly Status Report.

Required Qualifications

Clearance

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; in-scope Tier 5 (T5) or T5 Reinvestigation per ICD 704.

• Eligibility for SAP access per DoWM 5205.07-V2.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university. Degrees in national security studies, intelligence studies, operations research, strategic studies, or a related field are preferred.

Experience

• Minimum ((10 for staff officer IV, 3 for staff officer II)) years of staff officer or equivalent senior action-officer experience performing the functional responsibilities associated with the Staff Officer SME IV BPA LCAT.

• Demonstrated experience with the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) / Joint Planning Process (JPP) or the intelligence planning annexes (Annex B) of deliberate/crisis action plans.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating intelligence support to CCMD deliberate planning at the Joint Staff, CCMD J2/J5, OSD, or IC level.

• Working knowledge of DoD planning construct (Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF), Joint Strategic Campaign Plan (JSCP), and CCMD campaign and contingency plans).

• Demonstrated experience drafting decision papers, staff packages, and executive briefings for flag-/general-officer or SES consumers.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating across the DIE, IC, CCMDs, Joint Staff, and interagency partners.

Skills and Competencies

• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and secure collaboration tools.

• Strong policy-writing discipline: well-organized, logically sequenced, factually grounded, and substantively free of grammatical or political bias issues.

• Demonstrated ability to meet tight suspense-driven deliverables in a high-tempo OSD environment.

• Working knowledge of DoW Manual 5110.04 (Correspondence Management) and equivalent staffing standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior assignment to OUSW(I&S)/OUSD(I&S), Joint Staff J2/J5/J7, CCMD J2 or J5 (deliberate planning), DIA, or an equivalent planning-focused intelligence staff.

• Graduate degree from a Senior Service College or an equivalent Joint planning-focused program (e.g., SAMS, SAASS, SAW, MAWS).

• School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), or equivalent advanced planning program graduate.

• Joint Planner qualification or functional planner designation.

• Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience with CATMS, JSAP, or equivalent correspondence and task management systems.

Premier Enterprise Solutions offers full-time employees a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, health insurance, life insurance, military leave, training, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) retirement plan with company matches/immediate vesting, and more.

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