Senior Exercise Planner

At Cadmus, our Homeland Security Line of Business provides clients with pragmatic solutions to their most important analytical and policy challenges. We bring together a team of outstanding professionals who have earned a reputation of responsive and client-focused support for a wide range of homeland security, intelligence, and counter-terrorism agencies at all levels of government. Our client-oriented approach, coupled with our profound and relevant subject matter expertise, enables us to bring an incisive edge to solving the most critical national security problems.

At Cadmus, our Homeland Security Line of Business provides clients with pragmatic solutions to their most important analytical and policy challenges. We bring together a team of outstanding professionals who have earned a reputation of responsive and client-focused support for a wide range of homeland security, intelligence, and counter-terrorism agencies at all levels of government. Our client-oriented approach, coupled with our profound and relevant subject matter expertise, enables us to bring an incisive edge to solving the most critical national security problems.

Cadmus provides government, commercial, and other private organizations worldwide with technology-empowered advisory and implementation services. We help our clients achieve their goals and drive lasting, impactful change by leveraging transformative digital solutions and unparalleled expertise across domains.

At Cadmus, we look for team players and problem solvers who are driven to use their unique perspectives and intellectual curiosity to help deliver breakthrough solutions that achieve transformative goals. As a member of our team, you'll collaborate with leading experts to support our clients across the globe. We offer competitive compensation, outstanding health care and retirement benefits, a vibrant and collaborative work environment, and ample opportunities for professional growth.

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• Serve as a senior exercise planning and HSEEP subject-matter expert supporting government exercise programs.
• Provide technical direction for the design, conduct, evaluation, and continuous improvement of complex homeland security, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure exercises.
• Advise clients on exercise strategy, program priorities, stakeholder engagement, scenario design, evaluation methodology, and improvement planning.
• Lead complex, multi-stakeholder exercises involving federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private-sector, and critical infrastructure participants, as applicable.
• Oversee multiple exercise work streams or project teams and ensure consistency across exercise products, schedules, methodologies, and client communications.
• Lead planning meetings and facilitate executive briefings, workshops, tabletop exercises, after-action discussions, and other exercise-related sessions.
• Establish exercise design approaches and provide final technical and quality-assurance review of major deliverables.
• Guide the development of complex scenarios, exercise objectives, evaluation criteria, injects, analysis products, After-Action Reports, and Improvement Plans.
• Resolve complex technical, stakeholder, schedule, and delivery challenges in coordination with project and client leadership.
• Coach and mentor exercise planners, strengthen team capabilities, and promote consistent application of HSEEP principles and quality standards.
• Support project leadership with work planning, resource coordination, risk management, and client relationship management.
• Contribute to the development of exercise methodologies, tools, templates, lessons learned, and program-level recommendations.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in emergency management, homeland security, national security, public policy, political science, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Minimum of at least ten years of professional experience, with relevant professional supporting projects related to exercise planning, emergency management, homeland security, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, or a related field; preference given to those with experience in homeland security, emergency management, and exercises.
• Extensive experience leading the design, delivery, and evaluation of complex HSEEP exercises.
• Demonstrated expertise in discussion-based exercise design and…