ASM-Assistant SOF Exercise Planner

Fort Irwin, California, United States

Athenix Special Missions (ASM) is seeking an Assistant SOF Exercise Planner.

ASM Quality Policy:  To meet or exceed our customers’ expectations for quality, delivery, and service through continual improvement, striving to meet our objectives, and committing to meeting all legal and statutory requirements.

DUTY TITLE:  Assistant SOF Exercise Planner    

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide support of SOF by synchronizing SOF planning, coordination, and execution of Joint Training Coordination Program (JTCP) prioritized Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) programs to facilitate and emulate SOF - conventional force integration, interdependence and interoperability.
  • Assist with regular reports and timely responses to requests for information to the SOF rotational unit, USASOC, NTC, and the combat training center detachment HQ.
  • Facilitate communication between the SOF rotational unit, the Army service component (USASOC), and the NTC.
  • Support the integration of essential USASOC SOF training requirements with NTC exercise initiatives and activities.
  • Assist with the development of SOF specific plans and scenarios for implementation into the NTC DATE scenario.
  • Assist with scripting SOF scenarios, SOF exercise injects using current, evolving doctrine and SOF best practices.
  • Assist with the support to the integration of special operations training within the Army and DOD joint training community.
  • Assist with the development of other SOF specific plans and scenarios outside of the NTC DATE scenario.
  • Participate in events that support and facilitate SOF collective training at NTC such as initial planning conferences, leader training programs, and pre-deployment site surveys.
  • Must be able to manage scheduling of personal time and unit resources.
  • Prepare and develop products and plans which will facilitate CF - SOF interoperability, integration and interdependence (I3) during the Brigade Combat Team Decisive Action Training Exercise (DATE) Scenario and other specialized exercises.
  • Plan, coordinate, integrate, synchronize, and prepare doctrinally correct Special Operations (SO) and exercise control products. Products include, but are not limited to, SOJTF, SOTF OPORDs, FRAGORDs, TASKORDs, Target Folders, JCATS information, role player requests, threads, master events scenario list (MESL), on objective scenario documents, role player background documents and SO Intelligence Summaries.
  • Serve as an Operations/Intelligence representative in a replicated JSOTF HQ during NTC rotations.
  • Provide expertise, exercise design, scripting, support, and collaboration for each SOF rotational unit.
  • Provide support to SOF by synchronizing SOF planning, coordination, and execution of Joint Training Coordination Program (JTCP) prioritized JNTC programs to facilitate and emulate SOF - conventional force integration, interdependence and interoperability.
  • Assist with reports and timely responses to requests for information to the SOF rotational unit, USASOC, NTC, and the CTC detachment HQ.
  • Facilitate communication between the SOF rotational unit, the Army service component (USASOC), and the appropriate NTC staff.
  • Support the integration of essential USASOC SOF training requirements with NTC exercise initiatives and activities.
  • Assist with the development of SOF specific plans and scenarios for implementation into the NTC DATE scenario.
  • Assist with scripting SOF scenarios, SOF exercise injects using current, evolving doctrine and SOF best practices.
  • Assist with the support to the integration of special operations training within the Army and DOD joint training community.
  • Assist with the development of other SOF specific plans and scenarios outside of the NTC DATE scenario.
  • Participate in events that support and facilitate SOF collective training at NTC such as initial planning conferences, leader training programs, and pre-deployment site surveys.

Qualifications

  • Must be a US citizen
  • Must possess an active Secret Clearance
  • •    Bachelor's degree or 2 years experience in lieu of degree
    •    Must be able to effectively and independently research, develop, organize, and communicate concepts orally and in writing
    •    Must possess scenario development experience to include experience in design of exercises, scenarios, and management of Master Scenario Event List (MSEL) events
    •    Must be familiar with MS Office Suite.
    •    Exhibit knowledge and skills relating to current joint/service SO doctrine, TTPs, and systems
    •    Experience associated with the technical terminology, schemes, scenarios, and maneuvers applied by the U.S. Army in the NTC training environment
    •    Perform duties and travel in extreme weather conditions and at height (helicopter travel, mountain tops, elevated walk areas and towers)
  • Preferred qualifications are as follows:
    •    Experience conducting Special Operations Forces training and operations with at least 3 (3) years' experience
    •    Experience with Special Operations Forces Joint Task Forces, Combined/Joint Operations Task Forces and/or other SOF structures
    •    ASO Level II or Level III qualified

Athenix Solutions Group, LLC and its companies Athenix Cyber and SIGINT, and Athenix Special Missions is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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