Joint Targeting and Fires Exercise Planner

Salary Range: 132000 to 152000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, coordinate, and support Joint Targeting and Fires requirements throughout the exercise planning and execution lifecycle.
• Integrate deliberate and dynamic targeting processes, Joint fires, multi-domain targeting, and operational effects into exercise scenarios and events.
• Apply knowledge of aviation, fires platforms, weapons systems, and their operational employment to exercise design and execution.
• Integrate Joint, MAGTF, and Naval targeting and fires systems, C4I networks, data pathways, and command-and-control architectures into exercise planning.
• Participate in and support Exercise Life Cycle (ELC) events, including planning conferences, working groups, rehearsals, execution, and assessments.
• Lead or contribute to planning efforts using the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP), Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP), Joint Planning Process (JPP), or equivalent methodologies.
• Coordinate targeting and fires requirements across Joint, Marine Corps, Naval, and Special Operations Forces stakeholders.
• Incorporate Special Operations Forces (SOF) capabilities, support requirements, fires applications, and operational considerations into exercise planning.
• Support the integration of multi-domain capabilities and systems-of-systems into realistic operational environments.
• Develop and deliver briefings, planning products, exercise documentation, and other materials to senior military and civilian stakeholders.
• Travel to CONUS and OCONUS locations in support of exercise planning conferences and execution events.

Required Qualifications

• 15 years of prior military service.
• Demonstrated targeting and/or fires experience at the Fleet, MEF, JTF, or equivalent level of command.
• Thorough understanding of Joint deliberate and dynamic targeting processes, Joint fires, multi-domain targeting, and effects.
• Working knowledge of aviation and fires platforms, capabilities, and operational employment.
• Thorough understanding of Joint, MAGTF, or Naval targeting and fires data systems, C4I networks, and associated data pathways.
• Extensive experience with military exercise planning and a thorough understanding of the exercise life cycle.
• Experience leading the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP), Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP), or equivalent military planning process.
• Understanding of SOF capabilities, support requirements, fires applications, and operations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Ability and willingness to travel to CONUS and OCONUS exercise planning and execution events.
• Must possess and maintain a valid U.S. driver's license and passport

Security Clearance

• Must possess a current Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance verified in the Defense Information System for Security (DISS).
• Must meet applicable Marine Corps personnel validation and clearance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous SOF Fires experience with comprehensive knowledge of SOF-specific missions, capabilities, and operational employment.
• Graduate of an Armed Forces Command and Staff College or equivalent Professional Military Education (PME).
• Experience with multi-domain operations and systems-of-systems integration.
• Experience with maritime targeting and fires.
• Experience and familiarity with Joint C2 and CIP/COP systems.