Expert Effects Planner with Security Clearance

Prescient Edge is seeking a Expert Effects Planner to support a Federal Government client. Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award. Benefits:
At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:
* A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
* Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
* A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
* Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
* A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

* The Effects Planner shall facilitate and coordinate all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.
* They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
* Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.
* They draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.
* Should perform tasks such as:
* Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.
* Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
* Conduct analysis to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
* Develop Measures of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) to assess whether an operation is achieving its intended results.
* Lead the operational-level target development process, nominating specific targets or actions that support the overall campaign plan.
* Analyze the results of ongoing operations and provide formal assessments to leadership on their effectiveness.
* Analyze national-level strategic guidance to ensure all operational plans and priorities are nested within and supportive of strategic directives.
* Refine, prioritize, and advocate for the plans and resource requirements of subordinate commands during higher-level planning conferences.
* Draft, write, and staff major special operations related documents, such as Concept of Operations (CONPLANs), Operations Orders (OPORDs), and formal planning guidance.
* Serve as the subject matter expert on a published plan, advising military staff and subordinate units on its interpretation, application, and intent.
* Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leaders on the details of a proposed or current plan, outlining the intended effects and synchronization.

Job Requirements Desired experience:
* Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience with minimum of 10 years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6 or higher level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
* Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
* Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with Planning activities.
* Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher).
* Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning teams
* Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections. Ability to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
* Skilled at translating complex operational problems into clear, concise briefings and reports that directly inform planning and operations.
* Works with a high degree of autonomy to tackle difficult and ambiguous planning scenarios.

Education:

* Master's degree in public policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate. Security clearance:
* Active TS/SCI and with the ability to obtain a CI Poly if needed.

Location:

* HQ USSOCOM, Mac Dill AFB, FL. Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

All applicants will receive consideration…