IO Planner - Special Activities Planner (SAP) Specialist with Security Clearance

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