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Plans and Programs Officer
Watermark Risk Management InternationalUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Jan 2026
About the role
Come make your mark with Watermark!
🎖️ FOUNDED BY USAF VETERANS in 2007, we are proud to be a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.
🌎 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS specializing in security and risk management. We’re intimately familiar with DOD security programs and mission requirements.
⭐ OUR CORE VALUES drive every action we take as a company. We strive to exhibit PERSPECTIVE, PASSION, COMMUNICATION, INTEGRITY AND ETHICS, and BALANCE in all we do.
💲 COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE to address our employees’ physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. This includes 100% employer- paid medical insurance, ample paid leave, a free employee assistance program, and a competitive 401k savings plan. At Watermark, our people come first!
Plans and Programs Officer
In this role you will support the teams that assess the security and resilience of critical U.S. Air Force mission systems, infrastructure, and assets. Air Force Mission Assurance Assessment Teams require highly specialized technical, analytical, and investigative support services to develop and conduct comprehensive assessments of critical assets and activities. In this high visibility, demanding role you’ll have the with the opportunity to support the assessment teams and travel around the world to the most important Air Force critical infrastructure to ensure its survivability against all hazards and threats.
In this role you will…
*This position is contingent on contract award*
Watermark provides salary ranges with job postings in states where it is legally required; any other salary ranges associated with our postings are third party
🎖️ FOUNDED BY USAF VETERANS in 2007, we are proud to be a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.
🌎 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS specializing in security and risk management. We’re intimately familiar with DOD security programs and mission requirements.
⭐ OUR CORE VALUES drive every action we take as a company. We strive to exhibit PERSPECTIVE, PASSION, COMMUNICATION, INTEGRITY AND ETHICS, and BALANCE in all we do.
💲 COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE to address our employees’ physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. This includes 100% employer- paid medical insurance, ample paid leave, a free employee assistance program, and a competitive 401k savings plan. At Watermark, our people come first!
Plans and Programs Officer
In this role you will support the teams that assess the security and resilience of critical U.S. Air Force mission systems, infrastructure, and assets. Air Force Mission Assurance Assessment Teams require highly specialized technical, analytical, and investigative support services to develop and conduct comprehensive assessments of critical assets and activities. In this high visibility, demanding role you’ll have the with the opportunity to support the assessment teams and travel around the world to the most important Air Force critical infrastructure to ensure its survivability against all hazards and threats.
In this role you will…
- Perform strategic planning, programming and resource management activities for the Mission Assurance Construct in the Air Force
- Maintain situational awareness of, communicate, and coordinate Mission Assurance program timelines, effectiveness, and operational alignment.
- Align and integrate Mission Assurance program and assessment activities with strategic and operational planning efforts, and Air Force objectives.
- Evaluate compliance and effectiveness of Mission Assurance Assessment Team activities with a wide range of DoD criteria.
- Evaluate feasibility of program options and analyze alternatives for the Mission Assurance Construct as a whole and for inputs/outputs and constituent program elements.
- Collaboratively support team and staff mission activities including conferences and development of artifacts.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 10+ years’ related experience required.
- Familiarity with the DoD Mission Assurance Construct.
- Major Command or Air Staff (or equivalent) experience required.
- Major (or GS-14 equivalent) or higher in Air Force or Space Force.
- Knowledge of requirements for protection of classified and sensitive information.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Active Top Secret with SCI Eligibility
- Must be open to travel 25% of the year.
- Must have a valid US passport.
- May be required to move equipment/files weighing up to 50 pounds
- Requires ability to consistently perform repetitive tasks including filing and scanning
- May require sedentary work at least 50% of the time
- Reports to a physical location which occasionally requires the ability to traverse between buildings
- Ability to manage stress with a high degree of maturity/professionalism
- Demonstrated critical thinking and leadership skills and the ability to work well with others
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Other duties as assigned
*This position is contingent on contract award*
Watermark provides salary ranges with job postings in states where it is legally required; any other salary ranges associated with our postings are third party
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