Mission Assurance Planner and Defense Mission Expert

Mission Assurance Planner and Defense Mission Expert

The Opportunity:
As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe. 

As a Mission Assurance Planner, you’ll bring your leadership, subject matter expertise, planning, and consulting expertise to work alongside thought leaders in the Indo-Pacific Area of Responsibility on projects, including Homeland Defense, contingency planning, and critical infrastructure. You’ll use your skills and expertise to facilitate Operational Planning Teams (OPTs), bureaus, boards, cells, conferences, and working groups and respond to the creation of Requests for Information (RFI). You will assist with the development, analysis, and evaluation of policy, processes, and systems related to client requirements. You will support related initiatives and requirements, including institutional and operational-level security cooperation capacity building events, organizational assessment, and input into higher headquarters efforts. You will contribute to the synchronization of efforts in a matrix organization with multiple functional areas, and provide written reports and briefs for senior military audiences. 

Work with us to deliver solutions to complex problems and advance capabilities to our nation and partners. Further your career while creating mission-forward solutions that matter. 

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:  

• 4+ years of experience with the Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) or Joint Planning Process
• 4+ years of experience with operational planning at the Corps, Theater, Combatant Command, or Joint level staff
• Experience with challenges specific to the INDOPACOM AOR
• Knowledge of U.S. Army Protection Warfighting Function and Homeland Defense Planning
• Ability to take a planning effort from the concept phase to development, and assist with performing orders or policy production and implementation 
• Ability to deliver verbal and written presentations to executive-level leadership
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience with mission assurance in the DoD and associated DoD mission assurance benchmarks, or 12+ years of experience with mission assurance in the DoD and associated DoD mission assurance benchmarks

Nice If You Have:  

• Experience working individually and as part of a team to develop collaborative solutions to shared problems
• Knowledge of programs or systems such as the Core Vulnerability Assessment Management Program, Strategic Mission Assurance Data System, or Enterprise Protection Risk Management System
• Ability to facilitate working groups and meetings with multiple organizations
• Completion of Military Education Level 4 Qualification Course or equivalent Course
• Antiterrorism Officer Level II Certification

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required. 

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,900.00 to $198,000.00