Pre-Award: APOLLO- Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) Journeyman Planner- Norfolk VA

Responsibilities

• Integrates OIE objectives into campaign and operational plans, ensuring information effects align with commander intent and operational design.
• Synchronizes information forces and capabilities with maneuver, joint fires, and non-kinetic activities to achieve desired effects in the information environment.
• Designs, authors, and integrates OIE OPORD inputs, annexes, appendices, tabs, and supporting planning products into joint planning and execution.
• Integrates intelligence, targeting, and collection requirements to inform OIE planning, execution, and decision-making.
• Develops and incorporates measures of performance and effectiveness, evaluation frameworks, and assessment plans to support continuous monitoring, adaptation, and refinement of OIE activities.
• Coordinates and synchronizes OIE planning and execution with interagency partners, allies, coalition forces, academia, industry vendors, and DoD/DoW stakeholders to ensure unity of effort and de-confliction.
• Integrates DoD/DoW Rewards Program planning into OIE efforts to incentivize desired behaviors, enable information collection, and support operational objectives in accordance with authorities.
• Ensures legal, policy, attribution, and operational risk considerations are embedded in OIE plans while producing decision-quality OIE assessments, briefs, and recommendations for senior leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS clearance with SCI, or eligible to obtain SCI
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant field such as Strategic Communications, International Relations, Political Science, Behavioral Science, or Military Science
• 3+ years of experience planning, coordinating, synchronizing, and/or executing operations in the information environment (e.g., Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Operations Security (OPSEC), Defense Deception Activities, Electronic Warfare, Cyberspace Operations, Public Affairs, and/or Information Operations)
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in military planning processes, including the Joint Planning Process (JPP), the military decision-making process (MDMP), the joint targeting process, and/or military campaign planning
• Proficient in standard military software applications and communication systems

Desired Qualifications

• Completion of advanced OIE-relevant training such as the FA30 Information Operations Qualification Course, Joint Information Planners Course (JIPC, formerly JIOPC), OPSEC Planners Course, MILDEC Planners Course, PSYOP Planners Course, or Joint Targeting School
• Experience with military planning at the operational level, to include experience at the CCMD, Service Component Command, and/or Joint Task Force level
• Experience coordinating and synchronizing military operations with multinational and/or interagency teammates