Maritime Planner

Maritime Planner

Position Description

S2Technologies is currently seeking a dynamic and experienced Maritime Planner to provide U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. FOURTH FLEET (USNAVSOUTH/FOURTHFLT) with direct support to long-range, future, current and crisis planning activities at our Jacksonville, FL location.

Typical duties include:

• Coordinate development and approval of fragmentary orders
• Provide support to warfare areas, planning teams, and decision forums to leverage space force enhancements in the functional areas of ISR; missile warning; environmental monitoring; satellite communications; and space-based positioning, navigation and timing. Identify and integrate space enhancements during the planning and manages space effects during operations
• Support operational planning teams using the Navy Planning Process in development of products to support specified mission planning. Incorporate multidisciplinary warfare concepts of operations into operational plans.
• Provide air, surface, subsurface, amphibious and expeditionary warfare perspectives to operational-level planning for operations and security cooperation activities, branches to support plans, and for development of plan execution orders and directives within the maritime domain.
• Develop and refine operational approach and design in planning, to include framing the problem; center of gravity analysis; development of objectives, effects, and key tasks; determination of decision points and decisive points; and identification of risk to force and risk to mission.
• Coordinate planning recommendations with the Maritime Planning Group.
• Integrating assessment measures of effect (MOE) and measures of performance (MOP) into the MOC's planning process. Responsible for integrating phase transition condition criteria into MOE and MOP development.
• Identify adversaries' conditions that will impact the commander's objectives. Identify and develop desired and undesired effects, based on commander's intent and mission analysis.
• Support and assist joint/operational planning teams and working group for coordination between staff and coalition or regional partner representatives for operations in the USSOUTHCOM AOR. Provide analysis and recommendations for USNAVSOUTH implementation and planning efforts involving joint, interagency, and multinational partners and allies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required Experience

• Minimum 5 years' military staff planning experience.
• Minimum 2 years in direct support of a Maritime Operations Center.
• Broad knowledge of foreign affairs, international and political environments, the role of other government agencies and key programs to include national security assistance and security cooperation.

Education:

• Bachelors

Certifications:

• JQO, MSOC, JPME I, JPME II, AJPME, or MOPC.

Security Clearance:

• Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Other Position requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

S2Technologies is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veterans' status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Applicants living in a HubZone designated area receive preferential selection when meeting all other required qualifications.