Exercise Planner

About the role

Leidos is seeking an Exercise Planner to join an exercise support team providing HSEEP exercise planning and design, development, conduct, and evaluation support for CISA’s National Cybersecurity Exercise Program (NCEP).

Responsibilities

• Support aspects of exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation on a team working concurrently on multiple exercises across the country.
• Provide administrative and coordination support for exercise planning meetings, including scheduling, logistics, and capturing action minutes.
• Support creation and maintenance of exercise documentation packages (e.g., invitations, sign-in sheets, meeting notes, and other administrative documents).
• Support participant registration and tracking activities using technical tools provided/used by the program.
• Support collection and organization of findings, recommendations, and lessons learned for post-exercise products.
• Support program operations tasks as directed (e.g., maintaining an exercise calendar, assisting with content organization onCISA.gov/otherplatforms, supporting all-hands coordination).
• Support development of exercise scenarios, discussion questions, injects, goals and objectives, exercise conduct materials, and evaluation materials.
• Participate in meetings with Senior Exercise Planners and Regional Exercise Leads regularly to ensure timely production of materials and exercise execution.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain DHS EOD.
• 2+ years experience developing, conducting, and evaluating HSEEP exercises.
• Demonstrated experience writing exercise planning, conduct, and evaluation materials.
• Experience providing administrative and documentation support in a fast-paced operations environment (meeting logistics, calendars, correspondence, and deadline tracking).
• Strong attention to detail supporting editing/formatting so products align to style expectations and are free of grammatical errors.

Preferred

• Active Top Secret SCI security clearance.
• Experience supporting data collection and basic analysis activities (e.g., compiling survey results and tracking trends over time).
• Experience supporting dashboards or visual tools that provide visibility into operations and key performance indicators.
• Experience with cybersecurity exercises.
• Cybersecurity Certifications.