Assessment Planner; SME, Sr and Journeyman levels

Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Assessment Planners (SME, Senior and Journeyman levels) to join our team, where you will lead or support the Information Environment. Your role includes translating commander intent and OIE objectives into measurable effects and ensuring the assessment plan aligns with the OIE lines of effort.

• Act as the sense‑making lead, defining the activities, outputs and effects and assessment framework to be applied.
• Define and manage the assessment plan for each Course of Action ensuring the IF/IA criteria are measurable, assessable within authorities and realistic given data access.
• Recommend proxy indicators, alternative measures and decision points.
• Develop valid and defensible MOE; MOE‑I and MOP using appropriate logic chains and measures to reflect behavior change; narrative dominance or erosion; system resilience or degradation and balance with quantitative and qualitative individual and reporting requirements.
• Define how data sources, methods and cadence will be executed, building consistency across time, phase and rotations; maintaining traceability to original objectives and preventing metric churn that breaks trend analysis and consistency.
• Inform plan adaptation & decision points, tying measures to branches and sequels; decision thresholds and risk indicators. Integrate assessment across the staff and partners (J39, J2, J3, J5, inter‑agency partners, etc.).
• Capture lessons learned & institutional knowledge and ensure methodological, ethical and authority compliance.

• Serve as the senior assessment integrator collaborating with planning and intelligence elements to co‑develop and refine the assessment plan and indicator hierarchy—MOEs, MOE‑I, and MOPs—proposing proxy indicators and alternative measures when collection, access or authority constraints exist.
• Build and test logic chains that capture behavior change, narrative dominance or erosion, and system resilience or degradation, validating feasibility with data owners and ensuring the criteria remain measurable, realistic and relevant to decision needs.
• Define data requirements, collection methods and reporting cadence; oversee instrument design, data quality controls and version management to preserve longitudinal integrity across phases and rotations and prevent metric churn that undermines trend analysis. Map indicators to decision thresholds, risk indicators and branch and sequel criteria, packaging findings into decision‑quality products that inform adaptation of courses of action while keeping recommendations within established authorities and constraints.
• Synchronize assessment activity across J39, J2, J3, J5, components and inter‑agency or coalition partners, aligning measures with OIE lines of effort and the commander’s battle rhythm.
• Ensure methodological rigor, ethical compliance and thorough documentation of assumptions, sources and limitations. Capture lessons learned and contribute to institutional knowledge, mentoring journeyman and analyst staff as needed, while elevating issues to the SME for adjudication and strategic guidance.

• Apply expertise across multiple complex analytic tasks to help define activities, outputs and effects, contributing to the creation of MOEs, MOE‑I and MOPs using sound logic chains that reflect behavioral, cognitive and systemic change.
• Help ensure indicators are measurable, realistic and appropriate to available data sources and authorities. Conduct research and analysis to identify potential proxy indicators, alternative measures and decision points that support evaluation of OIE lines of effort and courses of action.
• Operate with appreciable latitude in selecting analytic methods and proposing solutions, contributing innovative approaches to trend detection, behavioral analysis and narrative assessment.
• Maintain assessment tools, data inputs and tracking mechanisms, helping preserve consistency across phases, rotations and operational timelines.
• Support integration of assessment efforts with J39, J2, J3, J5 and inter‑agency partners by preparing analytic inputs, draft products and updates that inform branches,…