Strategic Planner

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The Opportunity :
As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to solve some of our clients’ most complex problems—and find solutions that keep our nation safe.

As a Strategic Planner, you’ll bring your experience in campaign planning, joint planning processes, operational assessments, and senior leader decision support to work alongside Spe cia l Operations staff and mission partners. You’ll help develop, refine, and assess strategic and operational planning products, translate commander guidance into actionable planning frameworks, and support efforts to align operations, activities, and actions with theater campaign objectives.

You’ll work across staff directorates to integrate environmental analysis, threat network insights, partner nation considerations, and assessment findings into decision-ready recommendations that inform campaign design, resource prioritization, and operational adjustments.

You served your country as a planner or strategic advisor—now continue your mission with us. Further your career while creating mission-for war d solutions that matter.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience supporting defense, national security, spe cia l operations , or Combatant Command planning missions

• Experience supporting strategic or operational planning, campaign assessment, or plans development in a joint or spe cia l operations environment

• Knowledge of Joint Planning Process, Joint Publication 5-0, campaign planning, contingency planning, and operations assessment met hodologies

• Ability to develop planning products, decision briefings, strategic estimates, assessments, and commander
  -ready recommendations

• Ability to coordinate across staff directorates, including components, interagency partners, or partner nation stakeholders

• TS/SCI clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience supporting a Theater Spe cia l Operations Command, U.S. Spe cia l Operations Command, U.S. Africa Command, or other Geographic Combatant Command

• Experience with security cooperation, partner force development, irregular war fare, counter terrorism , or spe cia l operations campaigning

• Experience developing Measures of Performance, Measures of Effectiveness, campaign assessments, or investment-to-effect analysis

• Experience with Micro sof t Office, SharePoint, Maven Smart System, Mission Command System - Common Operational Picture, Advana, or other data-enabled planning tools

• Knowledge of African regional security dynamics, violent extremist organizations, transnational threat networks, or partner nation operational environments

• Master’s degree in International Relations, Security Studies, Political Science, National Security Studies, Strategy, or a related field

• Completion of Intermediate Level Education, Joint Professional Military Education, Spe cia l Operations planning courses, or equivalent civilian planning education

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements foraccess to classified information ; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs.

Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We…