EXELMS - Senior Joint Fires Analyst - Exercise Planner

Position: EXELMS - Senior Joint Fires Analyst - Exercise Planner

Posted: 10/30/2024

Job Type: Part Time On Call (PTOC)

Primary

Location:

Quantico, VA

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

Job Summary: Applied Training Solutions (ATS) is seeking a Senior Joint Fires Analyst - Exercise Planner to provide expertise to the External Elements (EXELMS) section of MSTP to support MEF/MEB-level exercise design, planning, and execution. The candidate will understand how Fires and Effects integrate into the Concept of Operations, coordinate horizontal and vertical targeting and fires missions, and support the full targeting and fires enterprise across all fires agencies and C2 systems employed in each exercise.

The role requires knowledge of the Integrated Joint Special Technical Operations (IJSTO) and other OIE activities to assist in integration and improvement of the MEF’s ability to interoperate with the joint force now and in the future including new systems and upgrades to current systems.

The mission of the MSTP is to train and educate Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) Command Elements to conduct operations across the range of military operations within the context of a Joint, Combined, or Coalition environment.

• Execute the Joint Planning Process for Joint and Coalition fires, targeting coordination, and mission management in support of the organization’s and training audience’s objectives.
• Coordinate horizontal and vertical coordination of fires missions and ensure accurate representation to provide a common picture of targeting operational status across all fires agencies and C2 systems employed in a given exercise.
• Transmit machine‑to‑machine targeting information and facilitate improvement of the MEF’s ability to interoperate with the joint force now and in the future, including new systems and upgrades to current systems.
• Coordinate and execute fires missions across a constructive joint battlespace during the preparation and execution of service, CCDR, and JTF‑capable exercise life cycles.
• Plan for the execution of MAGTF fires and effects planning and execution as part of the planning process in coordination with a higher headquarters’ Joint Targeting Cycle in support of training objectives during exercise development and execution.
• Conduct analysis of Fires and Effects targeting cycle processes; determine information exchange requirements and joint subject–matter‑expertise requirements to support training.
• Lead the development of scripted, scenario‑based, Force/Joint‑level Fires and Targeting events as part of the Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) to generate training audience activity.
• Attend conferences and meetings; lead a Fires and Effects Working Group as part of an exercise design team at exercise planning conferences to design the scope and method of training.
• Advise active‑duty and reserve officers at simulated Higher and Adjacent Headquarters staff on the execution of planned exercise events to ensure all training objectives are met.
• Support extended work hours in support of 12 to 24‑hour continuous operations during events.
• Conduct tactical and operational planning at the conceptual, functional, and detailed levels for service and functional component organizations and joint headquarters organizations.
• Perform research of existing and emerging operational concepts.
• Support Marine Corps and joint doctrine documents, best practices, and tactics, techniques, and procedures not covered by doctrine (e.g., Marine Corps Interim Publication, MSTP Pamphlet).

• 10+ years of operational experience in deployment and employment of ground combat, supporting arms, and combat service support units and experience at the division level or higher.
• 8+ years of demonstrated knowledge of military doctrine, tactics, and command relationships at the operational command level as measured by operational force employment experience.
• Possess detailed and functional knowledge of the Marine Corps and Joint/Combined Planning Process and Marine Corps and joint doctrine related to Fires.
• Senior staff planning…