OPERATIONAL PLANNER

You will serve as a OPERATIONAL PLANNER in the Expeditionary Directorate (EX) of NAVAL FACILITIES ENG SYSTEMS COMMAND PAC. A Cost-of-Living-Allowance (COLA) of 8.64% will be added to the stated salary.

Major duties

• You will analyze and develop long-range contingency plans by reviewing OPLANs, CONPLANs, and related strategic, operational, logistics, mobilization, or disaster-response guidance.
• You will identify specified and implied requirements; and developing or updating supporting plans, concepts, initiatives, or strategies.
• You will lead or facilitate cross-functional Operational Planning Teams to develop contingency responses, courses of action, staff estimates, planning recommendations, and decision briefs for senior military or civilian leaders.
• You will Integrate organizational capabilities into exercises or wargames by representing engineering, infrastructure, installation-support, logistics, or expeditionary requirements.
• You will develop training objectives; and validate contingency-plan assumptions.
• You will design, conducting, or evaluating TTXs, CPXs, or comparable contingency training events to identify resource requirements, reach back needs, command-and-control and communications gaps, and organizational readiness.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-13) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Analyzing and developing long-range contingency plans by reviewing OPLANs, CONPLANs, and related strategic, operational, logistics, mobilization, or disaster-response guidance; identifying specified and implied requirements; and developing or updating supporting plans, concepts, initiatives, or strategies; 2) Leading or facilitating cross-functional Operational Planning Teams to develop contingency responses, courses of action, staff estimates, planning recommendations, and decision briefs for senior military or civilian leaders; 3) Integrating organizational capabilities into exercises or wargames by representing engineering, infrastructure, installation-support, logistics, or expeditionary requirements; developing training objectives; and validating contingency-plan assumptions; and 4) Designing, conducting, or evaluating TTXs, CPXs, or comparable contingency training events to identify resource requirements, reach back needs, command-and-control and communications gaps, and organizational readiness. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series and Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.