Global Integration Specialist

Job Title:

Global Integration Specialist

Job Category:
Intelligence

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:
Local

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As a Global Integration Specialist, you will serve as USSOUTHCOM’s lead expert on global integration, synchronizing USSOUTHCOM’s strategic plans, operations, and exercises with other Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, and interagency partners. You will brief senior leaders and deliver actionable recommendations to address complex strategic and operational challenges. You will prepare USSOUTHCOM leadership for engagements with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of War, and ensure global integration principles are embedded in command plans, orders, and exercises.

You will also maintain awareness of emerging threats from External State Actors and Designated Terrorist Organizations and identify opportunities to counter them across the area of responsibility.

• Advise the Combatant Commander, Deputy Commander, and Director of Operations on Global Integration policies, processes, and initiatives.
• Prepare USSOUTHCOM senior leaders for participation in high‑level engagements and forums related to the Globally Integrated Exercise (GIE) and globally integrated operations.
• Coordinate with the Joint Staff and other Combatant Commands to synchronize USSOUTHCOM strategic plans, operations, and exercises with enterprise‑wide global integration efforts.
• Represent USSOUTHCOM at GIE planning conferences, working groups, and related planning forums and meetings.
• Assist with course of action development and provide recommendations on Operations, Activities, and Investments (OAIs) to counter global threats from External State Actors and Designated Terrorist Organizations.
• Provide subject matter expertise during development or revision of the USSOUTHCOM Campaign Plan and Campaign Order.
• Support the development, execution, and management of operational assessments, as required by the command.
• Review Department of War guidance and produce recommended talking points and/or inputs for briefings, presentations, reports, technical analyses, and prepared statements.
• Accompany the USSOUTHCOM J3 or designated representatives to bilateral, multilateral, and U.S. Government engagements as required.

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Required:

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• Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, Military Science, or a related field.
• Completion of one or more advanced Professional Military Education programs (JAWS, MAWS, SAMS, Command and General Staff College, JECC/JPSE, JCWS, JPME I/II, War College, or equivalent).
• Three or more years of specialized experience as an action officer at a 2‑Star Joint Task Force, Theater Special Operations Command, or Combatant Command.
• Proven experience with military planning processes, including the Joint Planning Process, the Military Decision-Making Process, and/or campaign planning.
• Knowledge of threats posed by External State Actors and Designated Terrorist Organizations.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated experience briefing senior (GO/FO/SES) decision makers.
• Ability and willingness to travel periodically within CONUS and for short‑duration OCONUS assignments.
• Ability to work independently with limited government oversight and as part of a joint, cross-functional team.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, Military Science, or a related field.
• More than three years of experience supporting or working with Special Operations Forces.
• Experience developing briefings and…