Irregular Warfare Planner, Senior

About the role

As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems—and find solutions that keep our nation safe.

Responsibilities

• Shape the integration of irregular warfare concepts across joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational planning efforts.
• Assess complex operational environments to identify irregular threats, partner-force capabilities, and opportunities to create strategic advantage.
• Develop courses of action that apply unconventional, asymmetric, and information-focused approaches while synchronizing activities across information, cyber, psychological, civil-military, and influence operations.
• Collaborate with intelligence, operations, and interagency partners to fuse analytic insights into operational design and advise commanders on the employment of irregular forces, surrogate elements, and partner-nation assets.
• Plan activities that counter proxy forces, insurgents, and adversarial influence networks and organizations and may be embedded within information-focused operational elements to provide expert planning support that enhances mission readiness.

Requirements

• Experience with special operations or operational planning.
• Experience assessing operational environments to identify irregular threats and partner-force capabilities.
• Experience integrating irregular warfare principles into joint or interagency planning processes.
• Experience developing courses of action employing unconventional or asymmetric approaches.
• Ability to fuse intelligence analysis into operational design and planning.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance.
• Master’s degree and 10+ years of experience with irregular warfare or Bachelor’s degree and 14+ years of experience with irregular warfare.

Skills

• Knowledge of JOPP, MDMP, MCPP, and joint operational design processes.
• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Graduate of Joint or Service Irregular Warfare professional military education programs.

Benefits

Grow your career with us as you help solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.