Joint Exercise Planner

Location: Shaw AFB, SC – 25% travel to austere overseas locations.

About the role

SAIC is seeking a Joint Exercise Planner to support exercise design, planning, and execution at Shaw Air Force Base. The role involves frequent coordination with U.S. and partner-nation stakeholders and occasional deployment to austere locations.

Responsibilities

• Develop Training Objectives (TOs), Master Scenario Events List (MSEL), and overall exercise design in accordance with exercise milestones.
• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate concept development conferences (CDC), initial planning conferences (IPC), middle planning conferences (MPC), final planning conferences (FPC), MSEL conferences, and pre-deployment site surveys.
• Develop and coordinate exercise control group operations, including:
  • Develop and manage the MSEL database.
  • Train and manage the exercise control group.
  • Facilitate daily MSEL reviews.
  • Develop the exercise control group (ECG) communications plan.
• Provide administrative support to assigned exercises, including:
  • Developing necessary presentations.
  • Coordinating with partner nation/U.S. embassy for assistance.
  • Coordinating personnel movement and billeting.
• Lead the training audience in developing training objectives during the exercise development phase.
• Lead the development of the Master Scenario Event List (MSEL).

Requirements

• Ability to operate independently, executing the commander’s intent with limited oversight.
• Experience at an operational-level headquarters with working knowledge of:
  • JTIMS and ARTIMS.
  • JMSEL development.
  • Field Budget Estimate (FBE) development.
  • Orders development at the tactical and operational level.
• Active Secret security clearance; must be able to obtain TS/SCI with polygraph.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and fifteen years of related experience; Master’s and thirteen years; PhD or JD and ten years. Additional experience accepted in lieu of degree.

Schedule

Full-time, day shift.