Exercise Project Officer

Exercise Project Officer

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POSITION OVERVIEW

Headquarters Pacific Air Forces (HQ PACAF) participates in and is responsible for over 40 Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) and component exercises and events conducted with allied countries throughout the Indo-Pacific region each year. Additional events include multiple Building Partnership Capacity (BPC) events, engagements, aerial events, and tradeshows that occur each year. These exercises, BPC engagements, and aerial events/tradeshows provide essential insight into managing our technology investments, improving and maintaining the combat capability of U.S. forces, and furthering US Indo-Pacific Command's (USINDOPACOM) Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) strategy within the region. HQ PACAF is the Organization Coordinating the Exercise (OCE) for several JCS exercises. HQ PACAF is tasked with developing and maintaining Operational Plans (OPLANs) that cover several different contingencies within the INDOPACOM Area of Responsibility (AOR).

The work consists of planning operations and logistics, which requires a thorough analysis of exercise objectives & tasks, PACAF units' capabilities, deployment requirements, forward operating location(s) assessments, and resource constraints. Typical assignments require developing detailed plans, milestones, documents, and maintaining budgets; organizing and managing multi- functional USAF, Joint and Combined teams; responding to requests for information; and developing options, recommendations, and analysis.

The individuals assigned to this position are tasked to support the PACAF PLANORD listed exercises during the entirety of the "Joint Exercise Life Cycle" (JELC), i.e. from the Concept Development Conference/Initial Planning Conference (or time of assignment) through Execution and the After-Action Review (AAR) process. This entire cycle is referred to as the JELC, and will apply for all JCS and PACAF exercises, events, and engagements.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Exercise Project Officers (EPOs) shall be responsible for formulating, developing, assisting with implementation, and documenting each assigned exercise/engagement. Specifically, plan and organize assigned exercises, estimate costs and funding within assigned budget, and conduct all phases of the exercise planning cycle from the time of assignment through the after-action assessment.
• EPOs shall coordinate and communicate with other offices and activities (e.g., USINDOPACOM, HQ PACAF, other service components, NAF agencies, Wings, etc.) that have a role in the assigned exercise.
• Coordinate with USAF and/or other service component planners and their staffs to provide guidance, assistance, and training to ensure continuity of effort and the orderly management and execution of the operations and logistics support functions.
• Develop the purpose, objectives and attendee list for exercise planning meetings and conferences in coordination with the designated Lead Planner and PACAF/A37 COR, as well as coordinate the logistical support for those events.
• Analyze and document the effectiveness of exercise planning functions as part of the after-action reporting for assigned exercises.
• EPOs shall be familiar with historic inter-country relationships, and country specific customs and courtesies while planning PACAF participation in assigned exercises and engagements. Additionally, EPOs will account for current and projected PACAF force structure (i.e., country location, name of Wings and NAFs, type of aircraft assigned, etc.), PACAF roles, responsibilities, force presentation doctrine, and capabilities (i.e. Commander Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR); Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC); Air Operations Center; etc.) when coordinating with partner nations and other service components. These factors will be key to shaping and scoping PACAF participation in the full JELC of exercises/engagements.
• Responsible to identify, analyze and resolve contingency issues and errors that arise during the JELC. They will coordinate and communicate with participating units, Wings and MAJCOM staff and leadership to highlight the current and expected issues and socialize Courses of Action (COAs) to mitigate JELC deviations, and ensure issues are resolved.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Top Secret/SCI security clearan