Joint Logistics Planner and Operational Contract Support (OCS) Analyst/Trainer

Overview

LMI is seeking a Logistics Planner/Operational Contract Support (OCS) Analyst for a position supporting the Joint Staff (J4), OCS Division in the Pentagon. This is a great opportunity to join an established team setting the conditions to better plan and manage commercial capabilities in military operations.

 

Overview.  The successful candidate will work on a team of subject matter experts to integrate commercial capabilities and OCS, a joint capability described in Joint Publication 4-10—Operational Contract Support, into joint policy, doctrine, operations and campaign planning, processes, systems, training, as well as strategic guidance and concepts. While contracted support is an immense capability and capacity represented by the private sector in military operations, OCS is the government’s capability to harness (plan for, procure, manage, and assess) that commercial capability in military operations. The ideal candidate would have recent experience in one or more of the following areas listed in preferred order:

Combatant Command (CCMD), Joint Task Force (JTF), or Service component command experience in planning or managing contracted support to military forces in overseas military operations or joint exercises, experience in military operations planning in a joint or Service component environment to shape, develop, and review operations and campaign plans, annexes, and appendices that integrate commercial capabilities.

• Experience drafting operational, warning, execute, and fragmentary orders
• Experience in joint planning processes, systems, or data (e.g., familiarity with joint operation planning and execution system [JOPES], global force management [GFM], time-phased force & deployment data [TPFDD])

Joint Staff or Office of the Secretary of Defense experience in, or working closely with, one of the following Joint Staff Directorates: (J3) Operations; (J5) Plans; (J4) Logistics; (J8) Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, (J7) Force Development; or (J2) Intelligence.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with senior staff, as well as tactical and operational officers. The purpose of such interaction is to persuade, motivate, influence, justify, negotiate, or resolve operations or campaign planning matters involving OCS, logistics, and operational relevance (opportunities and risks) of commercial support to operations.
• Expert proficiency in oral and written communications. The candidate must be skilled at writing concisely, expressing thoughts clearly, and developing ideas in logical sequence.  

Instructor experience in a military environment teaching joint operational planning, logistics, OCS, or other joint operational doctrine concepts and procedures.

Acquisition experience related to contingency contracting, vendor vetting, or developing operational planning factors or contract requirements supporting contingency operations.

 

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Responsibilities

The primary duties of this position are to integrate commercial capabilities into joint operations and campaign planning, processes, systems, and data; review and assess operational plans and orders to ensure adequate planning for contracted support; and to support other joint force development activities (e.g., policy, doctrine) advancing the operational relevance and reality of contracted support to military operations.  To be effective, the candidate should have recent and strong operational or logistics planning experience that lends itself to the following tasks:

Operating within the Joint Planning Process, apply strategic and operational OCS guidance to review and offer analytical inputs to CCMD-created CONPLANS and OPLANS, WARNORDS, OPORDS, and FRAGORDS or supporting Service component plans and orders.

Originate, conceive, and conduct commercial capability planning and execution research, process analysis, or