USARPAC Exercise Planner (Strategic Planner 4) - Huntington Ingalls Industries (Hawaii)
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Job Description
HII-Technical Solutions Division (HII-TSD) is currently seeking an Excercise Planner 4 to support our USARPAC customer.
Come join our team supporting US Army Pacific, in Honolulu Hawaii! The INDOPACOM combatant command theater covers over half the earth’s surface and provides unique challenges to our National Defense strategy. We are building a team of professionals to deliver innovative solutions to our customer in a dynamic strategic environment.
There are few regions as culturally, socially, economically, and geopolitically diverse as the Asia-Pacific. The 36 nations comprising the Asia-Pacific region are home to more than 50% of the world's population, 3,000 different languages, several of the world's largest militaries, and five nations allied with the U.S. through mutual defense treaties. The AOR includes the most populous nation in the world, the largest democracy, and the largest Muslim-majority nation. More than one third of Asia-Pacific nations are smaller, island nations, including the smallest republic in the world and the smallest nation in Asia.
If you are excited about emerging technologies, finding creative solutions to complex problems, and the strategic challenges of near peer competitors and adversaries, then this is the opportunity you been looking for.
Some relocation assistance possible.
Essential Job Responsibilities
+ Apply knowledge of how to organize diverse groups to build shared comprehension of complex challenges, facilitate collective problem solving, analysis, and implementation of new solutions and best practices, and work with clients to monitor and review the systematic activities implemented in an organizational system so that mission requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled.
+ Manage assigned exercise events that allow clients to discuss process initiatives and confirm viability and events to practice and execute processes to confirm efficiency and comprehension of performance and output expectations, including Operational Planning Teams (OPTs), In Progress Reviews (IPRs), and After Action Review (AARs).
+ Facilitate training exercises, travel to various locations (mainly OCONUS), as required for approximately 5-10 weeks per year, and support exercises using the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) format for all exercises, seminars, and engagements.
+ Maintain responsibility for analyzing the formulation and development of, implementing, and documenting each assigned exercise, seminar, and engagement.
+ Coordinate with USINDOPACOM, USARPAC staff, Service Components, HQDA, FORSCOM, I Corps, and Embassy/Country Teams and/or JUSMAGs (as required) to determine sourcing solutions, implement funding guidance, ensure compliance with higher headquarters orders, policies, and guidance.
+ Coordinate, schedule, and brief leaders on the status of assigned exercises, provide input and make recommendations, ensure milestones are met, perform sourcing, funding, and performance gaps are captured.
+ Draft, staff, and manage through publication USARPAC orders, briefings and presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
+ Execute the exercise and provide exercise support to the client and other cells, as required.
+ CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required.
+ Other duties may be assigned, as necessary.
Minimum Qualifications
+ 10 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 8 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 14 years relevant experience.
+ 3+ years of experience with military exercises at the battalion, brigade, or division level.
+ 2+ years of experience with military planning at the battalion, brigade, or division level.
+ Ability to travel internationally up to 20% of the time.
+ Previous experience briefing senior leadership at the General Officer, Flag Officer, or Senior Executive Service level.
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
+ Ability to proof read, edit, and finalize exercise planning products for senior leader briefings.
+ Valid US Passport
+ Clearance: Must possess and maintain a Secret clearance
Preferred Requirements
+ Bachelors Degree
+ Army Combat Arms MOS
+ Experience with the Five Stages of the Joint Exercise Lifecycle (JELC) planning process
+ Experience with military operations and exercises in Southeast Asia (specifically, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Mongolia) highly desired
+ Ability to take an exercise from the concept phase, plan the exercise, and prepare, execute, and properly close it out
+ Preferably speak and understand any additional South Asian language such as Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu
+ Army Field Grade officer with exercise planning background
+ Experience supporting USARPAC staff
+ Experience supporting USINDOPACOM theater operations
+ Previous experience with the Army Training Management System (ATMS) and its components Army Training Network (ATN), Unit Training Management (UTM), Digital Training Management System (DTMS), and Combined Arms Training Strategies (CATS)
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Nuclear & Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.
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