Exercise Planner (Military)

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of an Exercise Planner (Military) (with extensive experience in DOD Exercise Planning) for one of our government clients. The selected individual will join a collaborative team environment where they will provide support and expertise toward the successful deliver of the project deliverables. Key to the success of this position is the effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status. The place of performance for this contract is in Arlington, VA.

MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE

WORK LOCATION ONSITE IN ARLINGTON, VA

• Serve as prime consultant and subject matter expert for the customer on highly significant matters relating to policies, programs, capabilities, and exercise goals and objectives for the customer to meet its mission.
• Develop mid to long-term objectives and strategic plans for the customer by identifying internal and external strategic issues that could affect mission success.
• Monitor environment for opportunities, perform analysis of program goals, and seek opportunities to contribute to enhancing the exercise program.
• Design, develop, plan, assist in execution and assess the customer in cooperative exercises with the Joint Force Headquarters in accordance with DoD guidance.
• Setup and attend planning conferences; coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to develop scenarios, events, vignettes; establish execution events, timelines, and communication requirements; and determine support requirements for cyber activities within each exercise, experiment, or demonstration.
• Review previous lessons learned and gather historical activity information to assist training audiences in drafting training objectives for each event.

• Participate during exercise execution as part of the Exercise Control Group providing oversight, management, and control of events for the exercise.Provide budget support to the customer, including, projecting current and future budgets for exercises; recommending budgeting guidance for exercises; coordinating with unit finance representatives for exercise support; if required, assist in developing projections for POM inputs for exercises.

• Develop after action reports to capture Lessons Learned (LL).
• Prepare event-related documents (i.e., trip reports, exercise planning/execution products, after-action reports, meeting minutes) within organizational and host-expected time requirements. Trip reports are required within five business days from end of conferences/meetings.

• Experience as DoD Exercise planner.
• Experience working on OSD, Army, or Air Force staffs
• Experience working with JCIDS process
• Experience working with DoD Architecture Framework
• Subject matter expert on highly significant matters relating to policies, programs, capabilities, and exercise goals and objectives for the client.
• Experience in designing, developing, planning, assisting in execution and assessing the client in cooperative exercises with the Joint Force Headquarters in accordance with DoD guidance.
• Experience determining support requirements for cyber activities within each exercise, experiment, or demonstration.
• Experience coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to develop scenarios, events, vignettes; establish execution events, timelines, and communication requirements.
• Bachelor's degree or higher, preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of overall experience
• MBA a plus
• Project Management Certification Preferred
• Experience briefing senior leadership at the General Officer, Flag Officer, or Senior Executive Service level
• 3-5 years’ experience in project management
• Experience with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) (Preferred)
• Experience with Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) (Preferred)
• Experience with developing conceptual architecture products
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organized
• Proficient in Outlook, Excel, Visio and other Windows-based programs
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Outstanding client relationship skills

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
 
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.