Effects Planner - Expert

This position is pending a contract award.

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence Polygraph to be considered.

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Cherokee Strategic Edge is seeking an Effects Planner to support USSOCOM. The Effects Planner facilitates and coordinates all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

• Provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
• Refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.
• Draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.
• 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.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

• Current TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph
• Master’s degree in Public Policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate
• 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 policymaker (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…