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Planning Support Subject Matter Expert

Planning Support Subject Matter Expert

SAIC • Halawa, HI, US
30+ days ago
Salary
$160,001.00–$200,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Description

The Operational Planning & Posture SME is the branch's technical/functional authority for deliberate planning support and posture-related planning integration. The role defines and sustains planning-support rigor—standards, quality gates, and expert advisory—so high-visibility products remain coherent, defensible, and aligned with guidance across the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC). Unlike the Senior role, the SME does not own daily suspense tracking/battle rhythm execution; the SME intervenes where complexity, risk, or ambiguity threatens outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define planning-support standards (templates, quality gates, staffing checklists, traceability expectations, version-control conventions) for branch-wide use
  • Advise government leads on complex planning-support approaches (staffing strategy, integration paths, decision points, adjudication methods)
  • Perform senior technical review of high-visibility briefs, information papers, and final planning documents to ensure clarity, consistency, and decision-readiness
  • Resolve the hardest integration problems (conflicting guidance, misaligned assumptions, incomplete inputs) and recommend defensible tradeoffs and mitigation paths
  • Translate policy/guidance into actionable planning inputs and posture initiative implications (as directed by government leads)
  • Strengthen Operational Planning Team (OPT)/working group outcomes by shaping narratives, analytical framing, and decision-quality criteria (not meeting administration)
  • Coach Senior and junior staff on advanced staff writing, editorial judgment, and staffing discipline through targeted reviews and exemplars
  • Assess systemic bottlenecks and recommend repeatable improvements to reduce rework and improve first-pass acceptance (without taking over daily execution)

Qualifications

  • Masters and thirteen years or more experience; PhD or JD and ten (10) years or more experience.
  • Career level and intermediate level military education (Expeditionary Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College (other service equivalents))
  • 10+ years deep experience supporting joint/service planning and senior-leader decision support, including production and critical review of staff products
  • Demonstrated mastery of JPEC planning forums and staffing dynamics (e.g., OPTs, joint planning groups (JPGs))
  • Knowledge and application experience in the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) and Joint Planning Process (JPP)
  • Expert capability drafting/editing planning products and enforcing consistency, traceability, and formatting discipline
  • Ability to comply with government workplace requirements and obtain/maintain any required access/eligibility

Strongly Preferred

  • Intermediate or top-level operational planning education (e.g., JAWS/SAMS/MAWS/SAASS/Service and Joint War Colleges or Fellowships
  • Senior PME (e.g., CGSC/ILE, USMC CSC, Naval/War College equivalents)
  • Prior experience with USINDOPACOM, MARFORPAC, HQMC, a combatant command, Service component, or MEF HQ
  • Doctoral degree in a relevant field

Skills & Competencies

  • Deep functional expertise in deliberate planning support and posture planning integration
  • Advanced analytic framing and problem-solving under ambiguity
  • Expert-level writing/editing and product coherence management
  • Influence without authority; credible advisory presence with senior stakeholders
  • Standards-setting, coaching, and quality assurance mindset

Autonomy, Decision Authority & Accountability

  • Owns technical/functional standards and review thresholds for planning-support quality (government leads retain final approval authority)
  • Decides when to elevate quality risks and require additional review cycles for high-visibility products
  • Accountable for reducing defects, preventing misalignment with guidance, and improving first-pass acceptance of key deliverables
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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