Strategic Exercise Intelligence Planner

Serve as a JSOC J7 Strategic Exercise Intelligence Planner at Fort Liberty, NC.  Support the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) in addition to seminars, academic training sessions, and staff exercises.   With a functional SME training cell and ICW other Headquarters and unit lead planners and objectives, the Exercise Intelligence Planner will develop, plan, manage, and control intelligence exercise/training support to enable multiple Headquarters and units to meet their respective exercise and training objectives.  Within the JELC, develop, support, and execute realistic complex intelligence and threat scenarios related to strategic and operational level problem sets for Geographic Combatant Commanders.  Using all source intelligence and consultant support, develop event support plans, planning documents, Master Sequence Event List (MSEL) and MSEL injects, control plans and all other intelligence related products as directed.  This position is on the USSOCOM Enterprise Wide Training and Education Program (UEWTEP) contract.

The best candidate will have extensive and recent JSOC experience producing all source analysis intelligence products. Qualified candidates must possess advanced management and organizational skills and demonstrate extensive experience overseeing, producing, and leading development of all-source predictive, intelligence community/interagency counter terrorism (IC/IA CT) related intelligence products for JSOC exercises.  Minimum of 12 years of special operations experience including 5 years with the National Mission Force.  Minimum of 4 years of experience developing SOF tactical-operational level products to support GCC and TSOC SOF/CT exercises.    

Candidates must also demonstrate expertise in the application of all-source strategic and operational intelligence and developing strategic intelligence products.  Must have significant analytical, planning, organizational, coordination, negotiation and directing skills to ensure requirements are satisfied and demonstrated ability to prepare/analyze IPB/Order of Battle products. Must be capable of briefing Senior Officers in large audiences and lead exercise intelligence planning collaboration sessions. Knowledge/credibility within the interagency and recent JSOC assignment is strongly desired.  This position requires a solid foundation on use of current intelligence systems in all-source analysis, and solid background in procedures to develop complex exercises IAW existing Intelligence and SOF standards.  Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of tools.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree Desired.  Graduate of any military intelligence school with certification.  Professional Military Education - Command and General Staff College or enlisted equivalent is preferred.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:  TS/SCI.  Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a position offer or removal. 

Extensive CONUS travel to support JELC activities is required.