Operations; FUOPS) Planner

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Job Description:

Job Description:

Location:

Camp Smith, HI

Clearance Needed: TS/SCI

Are you ready to put your military plans expertise to work on complex projects in support of an exciting mission focused on the Indo‑Pacific region? The ideal candidate will be a self‑starter able to work across multiple staff sections to self‑task and guide J35 activities in coordinating Department of War support to U.S. law‑enforcement, interagency, and partner‑nation counter drug and counter‑transnational organized crime activities in the Pacific.

• Develop future operational concepts, contingency plans, and planning products in support of J35 efforts to counter drug‑related transnational organized crime in the Pacific.
• Analyze emerging threats, illicit‑network trends, partner requirements, intelligence gaps, and operational opportunities to identify future planning requirements and recommended courses of action.
• Lead or support operational planning teams and cross‑functional planning efforts involving J2, J3, and other relevant staff elements.
• Develop and compare courses of action, including objectives, effects, assumptions, risks, constraints, resource requirements, decision points, and recommended options for leadership consideration.
• Draft and coordinate concepts of operations, operational approaches, branch plans, contingency plans, planning estimates, synchronization matrices, and other future‑operations planning products.
• Coordinate, as directed, with U.S. law‑enforcement agencies, interagency partners, USPACOM and component‑command counterparts, and approved partner organizations to integrate partner requirements and ensure plans are feasible and appropriately synchronized.
• Apply joint planning doctrine, relevant Joint Publication standards, and organizational best practices to ensure plans are executable, assessable, sustainable, and consistent with applicable authorities and guidance.
• Develop assessment frameworks for future operations, including proposed objectives, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, milestones, decision criteria, and transition conditions.
• Prepare planning‑event agendas, read‑aheads, decision papers, commander‑update briefs, and other senior‑leader products; capture planning decisions and actions; and coordinate transition of approved plans, requirements, and supporting products to J33 for execution.

• Demonstrable experience supporting joint, interagency, military, special operations, information‑related capability, or operational planning activities, including development of concepts of operations, courses of action, contingency plans, or campaign‑support products.
• Working knowledge of joint planning doctrine, Joint Publication standards, operational design, course‑of‑action development, and staff coordination processes.
• Experience developing operational plans, concepts of operations, synchronization products, planning estimates, or other decision‑support products for military, joint, interagency, or partner organizations.
• Experience coordinating planning activities across multiple staff sections and integrating intelligence, operations, assessment, partner engagement, and operational requirements into coherent planning
• Effective organizational, analytical, planning, and time‑management skills, including the ability…