Strategic Plans and Policy Advisor

Responsibilities

• Provide embedded planning support to USASOC/SOCOM and other government agencies in support of executing SOCOM mission priorities.
• Support US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) to provide trained and ready forces to meet Geographic Combatant Command (GCC) and Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) requirements.
• Provide accurate, relevant, and timely strategic, operational, and country-specific planning, analyses, and assessments.
• Support USASOC's transition to a truly data-driven organization to ensure the command is best postured to provide the proper mix of skills and equipment in time to prevent or address conflict.
• Responsible for providing accurate, relevant, and timely strategic documentation that informs OPLANS, CONOPS, EXORDS, and other strategic documentation.
• Provide specialized expertise in completing CONOPs and CONEMPs in support of ARSOF missions and objectives.
• Brief concepts, assessments, and final planning documents to executive audiences.
• Provide strategic level planning and policy development for large and complex projects.
• Collaborate with interagency community of practice, partners, and communities of interest to solicit and incorporate relevant data from existing national-level systems, products, and databases.
• Supervise and mentor junior and less experienced Strategic Planners as required.
• Collaborate with TF 40-25 workforce and analysts to enrich and complement analytical understanding and mastery of strategic planning documents and production efforts.

Qualifications

• Current Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Security Clearance.
• A bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in SOF, or 15+ years of experience in SOF.
• A minimum of three years of experience in operations coordinating roles of responsibility within a tactical, operational, or strategic-level command or support to a DoD contract of similar size and scope.
• Self-motivated and operates efficiently and effectively without direct supervision in joint and interagency environment while maintaining communication with and responsiveness to the client.
• Working knowledge of the tools, methods, and concepts of portals and other real-time or near-real-time knowledge management systems.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong attention to detail.