EXELMS Senior Joint Fires Analyst - Exercise Planner (PTOC)

Description

Primary Location: Quantico, VA

Must be a U.S Citizen

Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

Obsidian Solutions Group (OSG) is seeking a Senior Joint Fires Analyst – Exercise Planner, Part-Time-On-Call (PTOC) to provide expertise to the External Elements (EXELMS) section of MSTP to support MEF/MEB-level exercise design, planning, and execution. The ideal candidate understands how Fires and Effects integrate into the Concept of Operations, the necessary horizontal and vertical coordination of targeting and fires missions and the totality of the targeting and fires enterprise across all fires agencies and C2 systems employed in each exercise. The candidate will have an in-depth understanding of the Integrated Joint Special Technical Operations (IJSTO) and other OIE activities to ensure full integration and how targeting systems transmit machine-to-machine targeting information and facilitate improvement of the MEF's ability to interoperate with the joint force now and in the future including new systems and upgrades to current systems.

The mission of the MSTP is to: Train and Educate Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and Marine Expeditionary Brigades (MEB) Command Elements to conduct operations across the range of military operations, within the context of a Joint, Combined, or Coalition environment.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide expertise to the Senior Analytics Group in the MAGTF Branch. 
• Plan for the execution of the MEF/MEB fires and effects planning and execution as part of the planning process in coordination with a higher headquarters’ Joint Targeting Cycle in support of training objectives during exercise development and execution. 
• Conduct analysis of Fires and Effects targeting cycle processes; determines information exchange requirements and requirements for joint subject matter expertise to support training.
• Coach and mentor the training audience up to the O-6 MEF Assistant Chief of Staff level. 
• Produce exercise planning products, to include COCOM/JTF/Fleet-level operation orders. 
• Lead the development of scripted, scenario-based, Force/Joint level Fires and Targeting events as part of the Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) to generate training audience activity.
• Attend conferences and meetings; lead a Fires and Effects Working Group as part of an exercise design team at exercise planning conferences to design the scope and method of training
• Advise active-duty and reserve officers at a simulated Higher and Adjacent Headquarters staff on the execution of planned exercise events to ensure all training objectives are met.
• Support extended work hours in support of 12 to 24-hour continuous operations during events.
• Conduct tactical and operational planning at the conceptual, functional, and detailed levels for service and functional component organizations and joint headquarters organizations. 
• Perform research of existing and emerging operational concepts.
• Plans and prepares lesson plans and seminars and provides instruction and event analysis on Marine Corps and joint/combined operations and doctrine to Field Grade and General Officers. 
• Review orders, briefs, and documents to support event exercise design, scenario development and higher and adjacent headquarters functions.   
• Support Marine Corps and joint doctrine documents, best practices, and tactics, techniques and procedures not covered by doctrine (i.e., Marine Corps Interim Publication, MSTP Pamphlet).

Requirements

• 10+ years of operational experience in deployment and employment of ground combat, supporting arms, and combat service support units at the division level or higher.
• 8 +years of demonstrated knowledge of military doctrine, tactics, and command relationships at the operational command level as measured by operational force employment experience.
• Possess detailed and functional knowledge of the Marine Corps and Joint/Combined Planning Process and Marine Corps and joint doctrine related to Fires. 
• Senior staff planning experience in Joint Operations Planning Process and/or the Marine Corps Planning Process at a JTF, MEF, MEB, Division, or Wing staff.  
• Experience writing orders IAW CJCSM 3130.03A, 4 February 2019, Planning and Execution Formats and Guidance and NATO Order format.  
• Must be able to translate training objectives into observable and measurable Fires and Effects training activities. Incorporates IJSTO.
• Experience conducting tactical and operational level planning and targeting at the conceptual, functional, and detailed levels for service and functional components, as well as joint headquarters. 
• Completion of Intermediate Service School and Senior Service School.