Strategy and Policy Advisor SME

About the role

Gemini Industries Inc. seeks an innovative and results-oriented individual to join our team as a Strategy and Policy Advisor SME (S&P Advisor SME). This role supports the Office of the Secretary of War, Human Intelligence & Sensitive Activities, Irregular Warfare Division (OSW/H&SA /IW).

Responsibilities

• Support the integration of Department and Administration strategies, plans, and policies related to intelligence support for irregular & economic warfare.
• Analyze emerging national security issues and develop policy and strategy recommendations that inform senior Department leadership decision-making.
• Draft, review, and coordinate defense strategy, policy, directive, memoranda, and implementation guidance packages supporting irregular warfare priorities to completion.
• Develop policy recommendations addressing strategic challenges within the intelligence support to irregular warfare mission.
• Cook up and coordinate with OSW Components, the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Military Departments, Intelligence Community organizations, and other interagency partners to ensure policy alignment and implementation.
• Conduct strategic assessments and policy analyses to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities associated with irregular warfare capabilities and intelligence integration.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, reports, issue papers, decision memoranda, and correspondence for senior Department leadership.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Department policy development, implementation, and governance processes.
• Support working groups, planning teams, and senior-level meetings related to irregular warfare strategy, intelligence integration, and national security policy.
• Ensure all products are developed in accordance with applicable Department guidance, directives, and established timelines.
• Use government provided Generative AI tools on a day-to-day basis to accelerate tasks, research, documentation, analysis, planning, reporting, and problem solving.

Qualifications

• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of related work experience, with a minimum of ten (10) years of specific work related experience in support of a DoW and/or Intelligence Community component.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the Department of War and/or Intelligence Community in strategy, plans, policy, or intelligence-related functions.
• Significant experience developing, coordinating, and implementing policies and strategic guidance.
• Extensive knowledge of intelligence support to irregular warfare concepts, missions, authorities, and policy.
• Experience analyzing complex national security issues and translating analysis into actionable policy recommendations.
• Experience working within OSW, the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Military Departments, Intelligence Community, or other Federal national security organizations.
• Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-level policy documents, decision memoranda, and briefings.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently or with a team, while coordinating across multiple organizations and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledgeable and skilled in applying Generative AI.
• Experience supporting senior Department leadership within the Office of the Secretary of War.
• Experience drafting and staffing DoW directives, instructions, strategic guidance, and executive correspondence.
• Familiarity with National Defense Strategy implementation, irregular warfare policy, intelligence integration, and interagency coordination processes.
• Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase I or II.
• Defense Intelligence Agency or Intelligence Community professional development certifications.

Other Requirements

• Vicinity travel within the NCR and occasional long-distance travel outside the NCR.