Senior Strategic Planner

About the Company

Gemini Industries Inc. provides technical, management, and operations services to support National Security projects. We offer rapid response to critical customer needs, perform analyses, develop operations plans, and deliver advanced technology to improve mission success. Gemini seeks innovative, results-oriented individuals with creativity, initiative, and intelligence to overcome challenges and succeed in a culture that is anticipatory, agile, and schedule-driven.

Our team thrives in a high operations tempo environment, delivering rapid solutions through integrated teams. We balance a "I can make it better" attitude with a focus on collective success.

About the Role

Senior Strategic Planner based at MacDill AFB, Florida. This role requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance and involves supervising plans and order development for joint combatant command-level planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze COA decisions, mission statements, commander’s intent, and guidance to develop plans and/or orders that direct subordinate actions.
• Organize, direct, and coordinate planning and production of all task order activities.
• Provide analyses, recommendations, and draft products for joint planning teams and working group approval in developing orders, analysis, estimates, and briefings for USCENTCOM leadership and primary staff.
• Assist with evaluations and recommendations to respective CCJ5 branches as they direct, coordinate, and conduct joint combatant command-level planning processes.
• Supervise all aspects of the Joint Operational Planning Process, including:
  • Mission Analysis
  • Course of Action (COA) Development
  • COA Analysis (Wargaming)
  • COA Comparison and Decision
• Conduct orderly handover of plans into orders for execution.
• Provide staff with situational awareness and rationale for key decisions to ensure a coherent transition from planning to execution.
• Facilitate coordination across working groups, Operational Planning Teams (OPT), and admin support staff in support of plans and activities.
• Assist with the management of working groups by contributing to report preparation, conducting analytical and statistical research, and providing alternative solutions and assessments of long-range impacts.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from a Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), Maritime Advanced Warfighting School (MAWS), or Senior Service College equivalent program.
• Minimum of 10 years of planning experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of planning experience at the Geographic or Functional Combatant Command Headquarters.
• Experience in joint strategic planning.
• Travel required to AOR (Area of Responsibility).

Other Requirements

This employer participates in E-Verify. We will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Ideal Candidate Traits

• Highly motivated self-starter with resourcefulness and extraordinary intellectual capability.
• Ability to rapidly learn and apply new concepts.
• "Let me try" attitude; resilient, able to present and justify opinions, and accept decisions to move forward.
• Views criticism as an opportunity to improve ("let me try again").
• Thinks creatively, bringing fresh ideas, perspective, and energy to the company.