Operations Support SME (OSS)

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed analyses of JHQ/JTF operational and functional processes to discern the advantages and disadvantages of current and prospective procedures, including repurposing, realigning, or procuring new supporting equipment, devices, software applications, and aids.
• Support actions to the government may include, but not be limited to, identifying anomalies in current JHQ/JTF operations and both material and procedural change recommendations for remedying them.
• Review and continuously evaluate established and prospective JHQ/JTF-related processes, procedures, and supporting systems against projected requirements to identify tradeoffs and opportunities for optimizing the capability's performance.
• Liaise with, coordinate with, and provide analysis to all participants involved in planning, preparing, deploying, and supporting a JHQ/JTF, including USSOCOM, GCCs, TSOCs, Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, NATO, the interagency, and other mission partners.
• Understand and leverage knowledge of the strategic level environment, issues, atmospherics, dynamics, requirements, and processes used in the Joint Staff, OSD, the Interagency, National Security Council Staff, and subordinate Component Commands to achieve desired government outcomes.
• Prepare, edit, and review written orders, plans, briefings, and papers.
• Orally present analysis of these products effectively to senior leaders, including GO/FOs and SESs.
• Provide clear, concise, accurate, easily understandable, and technically correct information papers, memos, and briefings to inform and influence senior leader decision-making.
• Facilitate seminars and small group discussions at staff development events that support pre-deployment preparation, deployment, and redeployment.
• Provide relevant professional information to JHQ/JTFs on the historical, political, military, cultural, religious, and economic factors for preparing their personnel to deploy to any Geographic Combatant Command (GCC) supporting SOF operations and activities.
• Aid the government in analyzing DOD operations, plans, and strategies to identify JHQ/JTF key tasks, objectives, and plans for achieving strategic, operational, and tactical effects within its area of operations and greater area of influence.
• Aid the government in analyzing, evaluating, and assessing the impacts of external plans, policies, and guidance on USSOCOM's employment of JHQ/JTFs – while also making recommendations for responding to external guidance, requirements, and other factors that may affect an existing JHQ/JTF capability or how such capability will be employed and sustained in the future.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• 5 years combined military experience in a joint, combined, and interagency environment.
• Graduate of a JPME course, Intermediate Development Course, Senior Professional Military Education Course, or civilian equivalent.
• 5 years of proven experience in DoD planning and design or civilian equivalent.
• Proven experience convening and leading small groups and adapting complex subject matter to facilitate discussion and understanding.
• Current DoD Top Secret clearance and eligible for SCI access.