Strategy, Plans, Exercises, and Policy Support Services​/Communic Security Clearance

Overview

Description U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) supports a unique joint staff planning need focused on integrating and synchronizing Department of Defense (DoD) military activities with United States Government (USG) strategy. Services include developing inputs to strategies, campaign plans, and concepts of operation that ultimately translate strategic and operational objectives into a series of related activities and operations to achieve desired end states in coordination with other DoD components, USG agencies, allies, coalition members and regional partners.

• Provide expertise on the development and synchronization of communication strategies and plans.
• Provide subject matter expertise input during the drafting of Key Leader Engagement (KLE) policies.
• Provide recommendations in the design of KLE management tools and manage data within these tools, to include KLE data, KLE read-outs, and strategic messaging content as appropriate.
• Provide senior onsite support to the development of communication initiatives or strategies including themes, narratives, actions, activities, and key audience identification.
• Track key themes and messages from United States Government leaders to keep Concept Plans and OPLAN communication efforts synchronized with United States Government strategic messaging.
• Provide expertise on methodologies and processes for unifying communications efforts between USCENTCOM, subordinate commands, the Joint Staff, and Interagency partners.
• Provide expertise on the integration of communication plans, operations, and assessments across the disciplines of Public Affairs, Information Operations, and Key Leader Engagement.
• Coordinate with appropriate USCENTCOM directorates to align communication efforts in support of designated plans.
• Develop and deliver, as required, effective oral and written presentations, to include briefs to senior leaders, on topics within the scope of the task order.
• Develop and update, as needed, Annex Y, Commander's Communication Strategy, for CONPLANs, OPLANs, and OPORDs.
• Provide coordination of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Mandatory Declassification Reviews (MDR) according to legal standards governing the processing, declassification, and release of information from designated USCENTCOM files. This includes thorough searching of files controlled by CCJ5 for information relevant for government personnel to determine declassification and ability to disseminate information based on detailed knowledge of existing legal statutes and current USCENTCOM information strategies and advising CCJ5 on the FOIA and MDR Program in accordance with USCENTCOM directives to ensure plans and orders are properly safeguarded.

• TS/SCI
• Bachelor's Degree and be a graduate from one of the following:
  Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), or Maritime Advanced Warfighting School (MAWS).
• 5+ years of planning experience in at least one information-related area:
  Public Affairs (PA), Information Operations (IO), Key Leader Engagements (KLE), or Civil Affairs (CA)
• Desired:
  Completed Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)
• Corporate Marketing experience.