REGIONAL OPERATIONS PLANNER / NF4

Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) is looking for the best and brightest to join our Team! MCCS is a comprehensive program that supports and enhances the quality of life for Marines, their families, and others in the Marine Corps Community. We offer a team oriented environment comprised of military personnel, civilian employees, contractors and volunteers who keep the organization functioning smoothly and effectively.

Major duties

SUMMARY OF DUTIES: This position serves as a Regional Operations Planner within Marine Corps Community Services, Marine Corps Installations West-Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. This position serves in both the current and future operations section to enable comprehensive near, mid and long-term planning. This position is responsible for comprehensive long-range planning, development, and management of complex, multi-disciplinary projects across four geographically dispersed Installations while coordinating with additional adjacent Installations for Regional matters. This position routinely coordinates efforts on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST with Headquarters Marine Corps (MR/MF and MCICOM). This position routinely coordinates, plans and implements various initiatives in partnership with adjacent staff sections, Major Subordinate Commands, Installations and MCCS Divisions and oversees projects from initial concept through completion, ensuring alignment with installation master plans, regional strategic goals, and budgetary constraints. Acts as an MCCS expert and advisor to the MCCS Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on technical and operational matters while ensuring detailed, effective and well-designed planning efforts across all lines of effort. This position regularly attends meetings on behalf of MCCS, MCIWEST focused on MCCS operations, planning and support coordination efforts while ensuring effective efforts within current/future operations. This position applies analytical and project managements expertise to plan, coordinate and execute regionally significant initiatives while integrating input across all MCCS functional areas and Installations. This position ensures appropriate progress, objectives and requirements are met. This position develops comprehensive briefs while preparing for and briefing MCCS issues across a myriad of functional areas. This position serves as a key planner in areas representing MCCS MCIWEST in special events, large scale efforts and visits. Coordinates with MCCS Divisions, Installation staff and external entities to ensure compliance and mission alignment. Plans and coordinates current operations in support of special events, ceremonies, and command support efforts. Participates as a key member of the Regional Defense Operations Center (RDOC) and member of the Crisis Action Team (CAT). This position serves as a primary liaison between MCCS MCIWEST Installations and internal/external stakeholders. Prepares and delivers briefings to senior leadership. Participates and serves as the primary contact for coordination of cross-functional working groups, operational planning teams, conferences and training events. Contributes to the development of a 5¿10-year strategic plan supporting revenue generation, programmatic delivery and event coordination. This position encompasses the overall execution of highly visible MCCS Regional programming and support through the implementation of goals and objectives. This position serves as a primary planner for coordination of functionality assessments and other high-level visits to both the Installation and Region. This position provides weekly MCCS operations updates to the Regional Operations Officer and Deputy AC/S on all current/future operations requirements. This position assists with the coordination of operations with and in support of MCCS activities at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. Additional coordination efforts and responses to taskers as needed with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and the Service Level Training Installations (SLTI) as required. Coordinates across the Installations and with all commands to enable highly effective, responsive and timely MCCS support across the full spectrum of the MCCS capabilities. Coordinates staff actions impacting MCCS across and with all MCIWEST-Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton staff sections at the regional level along with other adjacent and supported units. Through interpretation of directives from higher authority, research, interviews, analysis and evaluation, makes recommendations for implementing decisions on improving the effectiveness of work methods, procedures, organizations, planning and establishing organizational goals and objectives through information management and administrative processes. Ensure highly effective coordination to achieve unity of effort to enable MCCS goals, objectives and mission success through the coordinated efforts of ten Divisions supporting five Installations directly within the MCIWEST area along with support as needed to the SLTI¿s.

Qualifications

SUMMARY OF DUTIES (cont): This position assists with timely and effective tracking, consolidation and response to taskers from HQMC, MCICOM, MR/MF or supported commands. Tracking and responding to taskers through appropriate systems and platforms. Ensures tasks are prioritized in support of the intent provided by the MCCS leadership. This position participates in and is a key member of the staff that implements the Marine Corps Planning Process. Represents MCCS on various committees or with adjacent organizations. Performs duties for military-related social functions and coordinates MCCS participation/support for military base training operations. Coordinates activities involving civilian agencies. Monitors time-sensitive and high-profile projects. Gathers necessary data through research or from available resources, analyzes data, produces useful information, uses that information to format necessary reports and directives for approval from the MCCS AC/S and Deputy AC/S. Responds to and drafts into appropriate format briefing slides, correspondence, statistical material, reports, special projects and notes for briefs to commands at all levels. Provides guidance to and synchronization of current and future operations impacting MCCS across the full portfolio of support efforts. Establishes and maintains turnover file on recurring activities. Supervises the coordinated planning to include operational planning teams, integrated planning and leads special projects. This position prepares read ahead, Quad Charts, Briefs, Information and Decision papers, and reports. This position participates as a representative during the planning and execution of MCCS efforts in Force Protection Exercises and serves as one of the primary MCCS representatives in the MCIWEST RDOC. Represents MCCS on various committees, planning teams to ensure the organizations operations, resources and capabilities are effectively implemented. Coordinates with and across the Operations sections to ensure timely response, submission and coordination is achieved through both reoccurring and unanticipated organizational requirements, tasking and planning. Assists with the effective coordination with Higher Headquarters to include MCICOM, HQMC MR/MF and all supported commands. May travel to complete work assignments. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A minimum of four years¿ related experience in management and supervision, specifically significant experience related to operations planning while working with staff and administrative process and activities Relevant education may be used as a substitute for experience. Knowledge of Marine Corps structure, policies and procedures is required. Must be familiar with MCCS management policies, concepts, practices, and principles in order to support operations and administrative planning and coordination along with ability to operate computer and associated software. Must have the ability to deal courteously, effectively and tactfully with others, even in stressful environments. Flexibility in working conditions and hours is required. Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

Requirements

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