Strategy, Plans, Exercises, & Policy Services-FL

Description

PWS Title: Strategy, Plans, Exercises, & Policy Services

Location: MacDill AFB

Clearance Type:  TS/SCI

Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Conducting all aspects of the Joint Operational Planning Process to include Mission Analysis, Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis (Wargaming), COA Comparison and Decision.
• Conducting Plans and Order Development: Analyze COA decision, mission statement, commander’s intent, and guidance to develop plans and/or orders that direct subordinate actions.
• Conducting orderly handover of plans for order development to those tasked with execution of the operation. Provide staffs with the situational awareness and rationale for key decisions necessary to ensure that there is a coherent transition from planning to execution.
• Providing analyses and recommendations, in support of high-priority USCENTCOM planning efforts involving joint, interagency, and multinational partners and allies.
• Providing support in the implementation and planning efforts to counterparts in USCENTCOM Component Commands, other Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, the Office of Secretary of Defense, counterparts in other Federal departments and agencies, Allies, Coalition Members and partners.
• Providing support and assistance to directed joint planning teams and working groups by coordinating between Directorates/staffs, and coalition and regional partner representatives for operations in the USCENTCOM AOR. This includes the ability or willingness to learn program of record systems such as, but not restricted to, C2IE, MAVEN, or other systems to capture, display, and manipulate data.
• Providing analyses, estimates, recommendations, briefings, and draft products for joint planning team and working group approval to support the development of plans and orders as directed by USCENTCOM leadership and primary staff.
• Providing technical recommendations to joint planning teams and working groups regarding the Joint Operational Planning Process, Joint Operational Planning, Execution System, Exercise/Training Planning, and Joint Doctrine.
• Providing coordination of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews (MDR) according to legal standards set by the various laws governing the processing, declassification, and release of information from designated CENTCOM files. This includes thorough searching of files controlled by CCJ5 for information relevant for government personnel to determine declassification and ability to disseminate of information based on a detailed knowledge of existing legal statutes and advising the CCJ5 on the FOIA and MDR Program in accordance with CENTCOM directives to ensure plans and orders are properly safeguarded.

Qualifications

• 3 years of planning experience with comprehensive knowledge of Joint Publication 5-0
• Experience in a military or civilian capacity at a Geographic or Functional Combatant Command Headquarters
• Proficiency in developing joint, interagency, and multinational activities within identified ways, means, and ends
• Experience in planning, researching, and providing qualitative analysis of kinetic, non-kinetic, lethal, and non-lethal options against state and non-state adversaries.

Desired Qualifications:

• Graduate of JAWS, SAMS, SAASS, SAW, MAWS, or equivalent Senior Service College
• Experience with command and control information systems