SOF Operations & Planning Analyst/Trainer IV

About the Role

Athenix Special Missions designs, builds, and develops realistic training exercises for Special Operations, conventional forces, and partner nations, ranging from individual team training to 2,000‑person joint exercises. The company integrates live forces with virtual and constructive domains to improve mission readiness, situational awareness, and performance. ASM’s Quality Policy commits to meeting or exceeding customer expectations for quality, delivery, and service through continual improvement and compliance with legal and statutory requirements.

Location: Camp Lejeune, NC.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute component exercise programs, including running the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) planning events.
• Plan, organize, and build major command exercise planning schedules for the MARSOC Component exercise program.
• Assist in developing exercise‑related databases.
• Implement SOF and joint policy and doctrine during exercise planning and execution.
• Coordinate exercise participation with government and non‑government organizations, joint and coalition forces, and DOD agencies.
• Participate in exercise planning conferences and deploy to exercise locations during execution.
• Assist and coordinate in developing the exercise scenario.
• Coordinate Modeling and Simulations (M&S) requirements for component‑supported exercises, including planning test events, supporting communications and networks, developing POA&M items for M&S, and monitoring M&S execution.
• Conduct research on current world situations and analysis of training manuals, lessons learned, and TTPs to prepare training objectives for the Unit Readiness Exercise (URX) program.
• Develop and manage a reusable library of scenarios for subsequent URX rotations.
• Support the development, coordination, and publishing of exercise After Action Reports.
• Prepare and deliver oral presentations, written correspondence, training sessions, consultations, and strategy sessions to secure cooperation, resolve controversial matters, and convey information about proposed changes.
• Serve as a Role Player as necessary during RAVEN exercise execution and support planning and integration of OPFOR/SITFOR role players.
• Lead execution of all MSEL conferences to develop the exercise scenario.
• Develop and coordinate planning effort to integrate Opposition Forces (OPFOR) into SOF‑supported exercises.
• Make operational planning recommendations to the MARSOC G‑7 via the MARSOC G‑7 exercise officer.
• Provide academic, analytical, and action officer expertise to represent MARSOC at conferences, teleconferences, video teleconferences, and other forums.
• Provide analytical and action officer expertise to support planning, coordination, and execution of training events involving other federal, DOD agencies, and sister service organizations.
• Provide analytical expertise to enable planning, coordination, and provision/scheduling of resources and infrastructure for major rehearsal exercises, operations, and other training evolutions.
• Provide training and analytical expertise to support planning, scheduling, and execution of exercises, operations, and other evolutions, including coordinating exercise logistics support with higher, adjacent, and subordinate commands/organizations.
• Provide subject matter expertise to MARSOC G‑7 to plan and design exercise scenarios.
• Provide SOF expertise (knowledge of TTPs) to devise and produce special operations and Other Coalition Forces (OCF) exercise scenarios, modeling, and Joint Master Scenario Event List (JMSEL) events to stimulate integration, synchronization, de‑confliction, and battle‑space management.
• Coordinate SOF OPFOR plans with intelligence and script writers for integration into the overall scenario and coordinate live OPFOR requirements.
• Provide analytical, training, and administrative expertise to support research, development, and promulgation of official correspondence (Policy Letters, Operation Orders, Exercise Directives, coordinating instructions).
• CONUS and OCONUS travel required as necessary; travel usually no longer than 14 days in duration.

Requirements

• B.S. degree required; Master’s degree desired.
• Graduate of Command and General