Strategic Planner

Everforth ECS Federal has an immediate opening for a Strategic Planner supporting a Department of Defense (DoD) customer in the National Capital Region.

The Strategic Planner supports the deliberate planning perspectives for the J3 Operations Directorate by leading deliberate planning efforts and translating command guidance, emerging requirements, and evolving mission demands into executable plans and staff products.

The planner develops concepts, branches, sequels, orders, and planning products, coordinates planning assumptions and decision points across the organization, and transitions approved plans into future operations.

This is a fast-moving headquarters environment in a growing organization where processes are still forming. The role requires an experienced action officer who operates with minimal supervision, takes initiative, and contributes wherever the mission requires.

PRIMARY DUTIES:

• Convert command guidance and emerging mission requirements into deliberate plans, concepts, branches, sequels, orders, and staff products.
• Lead and facilitate operational planning teams, working groups, and integrated planning efforts across the task force.
• Build, lead, and sustain cross-functional teams drawn from across the task force, the Services, and mission partners to address planning requirements spanning organizational boundaries.
• Coordinate planning assumptions, decision points, and dependencies across directorates and mission partners.
• Conduct deliberate planning for future mission requirements, including mission expansion across unmanned system domains.
• Take assigned planning requirements, establish ownership, coordinate stakeholders, and drive them from initiation through completion.
• Ensure planning products account for applicable authorities, jurisdictional boundaries, and operational constraints across domestic and overseas mission sets.
• Synchronize planning efforts with other staff sections, the Services, combatant commands, interagency partners, and external mission partners.
• Coordinate the transition of approved plans into future operations and execution.
• Represent the directorate at planning boards, working groups, and coordination forums.
• Support development of planning workflows and dashboard capability, including AI-enabled workflow tools.
• Prepare and deliver briefings to leadership, operational customers, and partner organizations as required.

Salary Range: $134,000-224,000

General Description of Benefit