J39 Psychological Ops (PYSOP) Planner (Senior

About the role

RMGS, Inc. is currently recruiting a J39 Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Planner (Senior) in MacDill AFB, Florida. This position is contingent upon contract award.

RMGS, Inc. is a growing small business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We provide security-related training and advisory services to the U.S. Government, allied nations, and private industry.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior PSYOP planner
• Advise the commander and staff on the psychological effects of military actions.
• Provide situational awareness and understanding of the effects individuals and groups have in the Operational Environment (OE).
• Plan military operations that influence the attitudes and behaviors of selected Target Audiences (TAs) and populations.
• Determine the best means to deliver messages to individuals and populations in the Area of Operations (AO).
• Assess influence efforts through Measures of Performance (MOP) and Measures of Effectives (MOE).
• Determine adversary and enemy information capabilities.
• Assess the potential effects of adversary and information activities.
• Plan the employment of PSYOP to achieve commander’s objectives within the appropriate authorities and U.S. policies, goals, and objectives.
• Conduct target audience analysis and series development to achieve desired influence effects.
• Assess the effectiveness of influence efforts through open-source research and coordinating intelligence collection.
• Integrate PSYOP with other Information Forces (IFs) to achieve synchronized influence effects.
• Develop plans, Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), series to achieve desired influence effects.
• Integrate various command elements (to include lower/higher echelon units and service components) into planning to ensure synchronization and achieve deconfliction in planning efforts.
• Participate in Video Teleconferences (VTCs) and long-range, strategic planning efforts within USSOCOM, USCENTCOM, other DoW elements, and Interagency (IA) participants. This shall include course of action (COA) development, analysis, documentation, vetting, and presentation.
• Provide iterative, written and oral inputs and recommendations, via briefings and point papers/talking points, for the development and refinement of SOCCENT Influence Operations objectives, priorities, strategies, plans, and planning documents.
• Utilize knowledge of joint doctrine and joint planning concepts, to include the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) and Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) process.
• Apply operational art and operational design in the application of JOPP.
• Utilize knowledge of joint military operations, including command and control (C2) processes and the military decision making process (MDMP).
• Translate, both orally and in writing, technical content and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) found in proposed COAs, OPLANs, and CONPLANs into high-level briefs, point papers, and talking papers.
• Monitor and review strategies, doctrine, policies, directives, and instructions from higher echelon headquarters and make recommendations to the Government to ensure compliance and consideration in planning efforts.
• Create and maintain a database of PSYOP operations, activities, and investments (OAIs), TTPs, assessments, best practices, and lessons learned - to be used for mission continuity that may be accessed by all stakeholders.