AFRICOM-Force Protection Plans and Operations Integrator

Job Title:

AFRICOM-Force Protection Plans and Operations Integrator Job Category:
Intelligence Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type:
Regular-Long Term Assignment Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Outside Continental US* * *

We are seeking highly skilled Force Protection Plans and Operations Integrator to join our team supporting USAFRICOM’s Force Protection & Mission Assurance Division (J34). The ideal candidates will play a pivotal role in integrating, developing, coordinating, synchronizing, and advising on contingency plans and theater-entry policies to preserve mission effectiveness across USAFRICOM’s area of responsibility.

• Integrate, develop, coordinate, synchronize, and advise on AFRICOM contingency plans; analyze programs and policies spanning (Sie können sich bewerben oder uns per E-Mail kontaktieren in dem Sie die untenstehende Online-Bewerbungsbox verwenden) Law Enforcement, Detainee Operations, Physical Security, Theater Clearance, and Operations Security (OPSEC).

• Schedule, track, issue task orders, allocate resources, and facilitate actions to achieve mission goals and program objectives while maintaining short- and long-term planning calendars.

• Represent J34’s Force Protection Branch in working groups, team meetings, Future Operations (FUOPS) planning, exercise design, and Contingency OPLAN planning—ensuring protection functions are integrated with command intent.

• Analyze and distill complex issues related to protection across the AFRICOM AOR; develop and present concepts, plans, annexes, and procedures to ensure Protection requirements are synchronized and implemented in peacetime, contingency, and wartime missions.

• Provide guidance on protection functions through command-level planning groups; present courses of action and recommendations and integrate requirements into the Mission Assurance Coordination Board

• Synchronize DoD Theater Entry requirements per the Foreign Clearance Guide (FCG) with AFRICOM staff and Service Components; serve as the command’s expert for foreign travel clearances.

• Verify pre-deployment certifications; approve or deny theater clearance requests based on regulations, directives, threat levels, and theater strategy.

• Prepare, release, and transmit theater clearance messages; rapidly communicate time-sensitive information on force protection and force tracking requirements to leadership.

• Advise customers on policies and procedures for travel requests, processing, and reporting theater clearance information.

• Ensure the staffing and approval of Status Protection Waivers (SPWs) for countries lacking SOFA or other legal protections for U.S. personnel.

• Organize and lead HQ and Service Component working groups in response to taskings; prepare briefings, policy letters, reports, messages, SOPs, and correspondence related to theater entry requirements.

• Support briefs to the Director of Operations (General Officer, O
  7), MILGRP commanders, senior executives, and component representatives on theater entry matters.

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance

• Master’s degree in security Operations or a related discipline with 6 years’ experience; or Bachelor’s Degree with 10 years experience; or, 15 years experience.

• Demonstrated expertise across AT, Law Enforcement, Detainee Operations, Physical Security, Theater Clearance, and OPSEC, with a strong ability to integrate these domains into operational planning.

• Proven experience representing protection equities in FUOPS, exercise planning, and Contingency OPLAN forums and producing protection planning artifacts (concepts, plans, annexes, procedures).

• Hands-on experience with theater-entry processes: interpreting the Foreign Clearance Guide, verifying pre-deployment certifications, approving/denying theater clearances, and…