Cyber Exercise Planner
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info. Let's parse the job description. Key sections: - About the role: description of role (first paragraph after "Job Description:" maybe). The text: "The Cybersecurity Exercise Planner (Mid) is an exciting opportunity to join a mission-critical DHS program delivering cyber exercise planning, execution, and operational support. This exercise team develops, designs, conducts, and analyzes cybersecurity exercises and workshops across federal, state, regional, private-sector, and international partners. Exercises range from policy-focused tabletop discussions to large-scale operational events that test response procedures and cross-sector coordination. In this role, you will serve as a Cyber Exercise Planner responsible for developing realistic cyber scenarios, facilitating exercise planning activities, evaluating stakeholder preparedness, and producing actionable insights to strengthen national cybersecurity readiness. You will collaborate closely with senior planners, federal partners, and technical teams to support cyber preparedness activities nationwide." Then "MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT" bullet list (actually sentences). That could be Responsibilities. Then "What You'll Need To Succeed" bullet list (skills/requirements). That could be Requirements or Qualifications. Then "Required Education And Experience" bullet list (Bachelor's degree, 3+ years). Could be Qualifications. Then "SECURITY CLEARANCE" info: Hired at Public Trust. Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance as required by the program. That's maybe Requirements. Then "OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY" fluff; maybe ignore. Then "The likely salary range for this position is $63,312 - $85,658." That's Pay. Then "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40" That's Schedule. Then "Travel Required: 10-25%" maybe part of Schedule or separate? Could be included in Schedule or maybe a separate section but we only have headings for Pay, Schedule, Benefits. Travel could be part of Schedule? Not specified but we could include under Schedule as extra info? The instruction: Use headings for Pay, Schedule, Benefits. If we have travel info, we could include in Schedule paragraph. Then "Telecommuting Options: Hybrid Work Location: USA VA Arlington Additional Work Locations:" maybe also schedule? Could be part of Schedule or maybe not needed. Then "Total Rewards At GDIT: Our benefits package..." That's Benefits. Then "Our Identity Verification Process:" maybe ignore as boilerplate? It's about hiring process; could be considered boilerplate? Probably ignore. Then "About Our Work:" maybe ignore as boilerplate. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Thus we need to extract substantive content. Let's list sections: - About the role: description paragraph(s). Could combine the initial paragraph and maybe the "MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT" as responsibilities. But we need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can decide to use About the role for general overview, Responsibilities for the bullet list under MEANINGFUL WORK..., Requirements for security clearance and citizenship, Qualifications for education/experience, Skills for the bullet list under What You'll Need To Succeed (maybe overlapping with qualifications). However we must not create thin sections; prefer few substantive sections. We could combine some: e.g., have About the role (overview), Responsibilities (the MEANINGFUL WORK list), Requirements (security clearance, citizenship, maybe experience?), Qualifications (education, experience), Skills (proficiency with MS Office, communication, etc.), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract each piece. Overview paragraph: "The Cybersecurity Exercise Planner (Mid) is an exciting opportunity to join a mission-critical DHS program delivering cyber exercise planning, execution, and operational support. This exercise team develops, designs, conducts, and analyzes cybersecurity exercises and workshops across federal, state, regional, private-sector, and international partners. Exercises range from policy-focused tabletop discussions to large-scale operational events that test response procedures and cross-sector coordination. In this role, you will serve as a Cyber Exercise Planner responsible for developing realistic cyber scenarios, facilitating exercise planning activities, evaluating stakeholder preparedness, and producing actionable insights to strengthen national cybersecurity readiness. You will collaborate closely with senior planners, federal partners, and technical teams to support cyber preparedness activities nationwide." That's good for About the role. Responsibilities: The MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT list: - Plan, coordinate, and execute cyber exercises in alignment with DHS Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) principles. - Lead or support development of exercise materials, including scenarios, injects, planning artifacts, conduct documents, and evaluation tools. - Facilitate planning meetings, technical discussions, and requirement-gathering sessions with government and private-sector stakeholders. - Draft key exercise life-cycle documentation including Situation Manuals (SitMans), Exercise Plans (ExPlans), and After-Action Reports (AARs). - Conduct analysis of exercise outcomes and contribute to improvement plan recommendations. - Research cybersecurity trends, threats, and stakeholder requirements to inform scenario development and exercise objectives. - Provide coordination, documentation, and operational support throughout the planning and execution cycle. We'll put each as
under Benefits heading. Pay: "The likely salary range for this position is $63,312 - $85,658. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range." We'll put that as
under Pay. Schedule: "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: 10-25% Telecommuting Options: Hybrid Work Location: USA VA Arlington Additional Work Locations:" We can combine into a paragraph: "Scheduled weekly hours: 40. Travel required: 10‑25%. Telecommuting options: hybrid. Work location: USA, VA, Arlington." We'll ignore "Additional Work Locations:" as no specifics. We'll put under Schedule heading. Now ensure we don't include boilerplate like "OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY", "Explore a career at GDIT...", "Equal Opportunity Employer", etc. Now produce HTML fragment with headings
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We need to avoid repeating job title as heading (we aren't). No markdown fences.
Let's craft:
About the role
...overview...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
US citizenship required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance; hired at Public Trust.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (cybersecurity, IT, political science, emergency management, or related discipline preferred). 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in exercise planning, cybersecurity operations, emergency management, or related analytical or technical fields.
- Demonstrated experience with Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) methodology.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts, incident response processes, and organizational preparedness activities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to produce high-quality planning documents and reports.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and engage effectively with cross-functional stakeholder groups.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and a proactive, customer‑focused mindset.
Benefits
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Pay
The likely salary range for this position is $63,312 - $85,658. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.