Military Information Support Operations (MISO) / PSYOP – Naval Station Norfolk, VA – DOD TS/SCI

Peraton and its Operational Planning, Implementation and Assessment Services Team is seeking an experienced Military Information Support Operations (MISO)/former psychological operations (PSYOP) planner to integrate MISO functions and tasks into all facets of Combatant Command (CCMD) level planning, and to ensure the command group and staff include MISO/PSYOP in the decision making process. 

This is an on-site position based at Naval Station Norfolk, VA (no remote or hybrid options)

You will have the opportunity to:

• Integrate MISO/PSYOP into contingency plans and operations plans to ensure that MISO/PSYOP capabilities are considered in the deliberate and crisis action planning processes.
• Provide expert mission analysis, analytic problem solving, and assessment skills; creatively use information systems and information related capabilities (IRC); integrate with inter-agency and intelligence community (IC); develop innovative concepts to counter adversarial use of information in the Cognitive domain, Cyber domain and electromagnetic spectrum; and consider significant or key cultural aspects that affect operational and tactical planning, security, and risk assessments.
• Review, analyze, and operationalize tactical, operational, and strategic level IO related directives in support of maneuver elements.
• Effectively apply technical skills to operational and tactical planning/execution, identifying and tracking measures of performance through attainment of MOP, MOEI, and MOE, and providing advice concerning the application of MISO/PSYOP during the development of operational concepts.
• Support the production of status reports, assess project issues and risks, and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA, minimum of 6 years with MS/MA.
  • Four years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
• MISO/PSYOP/IO (37A/37F, 30A, and 14F), career field or other related military service equivalents .
• Knowledge in joint operational planning process, military decision-making process, military campaign plan planning, targeting processes and expertise in developing and accessing tactical and operational level MISO/PSYOP plans and orders.
• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience with MISO planning at the service or joint level in support of operations at Combatant Commands or Joint Task Forces and a working knowledge of information operations (IO), military deception (MILDEC), operations security (OPSEC), electronic warfare (EW), Special Technical Operations (STO), and cyberspace operations missions, tasks, and overall war-fighting functions that support operations, understand how to integrate Joint capabilities, and be capable of synchronizing activities of mutual concern.
• Familiarity with other core, supporting, and related IO competencies to assist CCMD planners
• Knowledge of service departments (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force) functions and their relationships to CCMD to coordinate MISO/PSYOP actions in appropriate channels, e.g., Army, Navy, Air Force, or Joint with experience with joint and/or combined military operations and inter-agency coordination.
• Knowledge of DoD, Joint, and Army service doctrine, regulations, and policies and capable of recommending changes to policy, force structure and design, and command relationships
• Proficient in integrating MISO/PSYOP capabilities into cyber plans and operations.
• Able to coordinate MISO/PSYOP actions within the proper channels and develop policies that incorporate the principle of C2.
• Experience with integrating, coordinating, and synchronizing adjacent and supporting operations with inter-agency and intelligence community entities, as well as developing support for related capabilities and their activities. Be familiar with, certified in, or have applicable operational/field time experience in any of the following:
  • Military Deception (MILDEC)
  • OPSEC
  • EW
  • STO
  • Cyberspace operations
  • Coordinating intelligence requirements
• Demonstrated ability to effectively advise, negotiate and convince various managers, military officials, and senior leaders and effective at gaining acceptance of recommended concepts, ideas, guidance, policies and regulations.
• Documented experience and ability to engage senior leaders and staff and conduct complex briefings to large audiences using oral, visual, & written communications and briefing techniques
• Adept at developing and utilizing information products that leverage current and emerging technologies to inform planning, improve coordination, and enable timely decisions
• US Citizenship and possess or be able to obtain a U.S. Passport and able to travel internationally.
• Active top secret with eligibility to obtain SCI (TS/SCI) security clearance prior to start date, based on current security background investigation 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent joint or service level information operations planning experience
• Experience coordinating with ACCM Program Managers and Coordinators at the Department of Defense, Joint Staff, Military Departments, Combatant Commands, DOD Field Activities, and interagency partners
• Completion of one or more of the following:
  • Joint Cyber Operations planners course
  • Joint Information Operations planner course
  • Defense OPSEC planner course
  • Special Warfare Advanced Targeting and Analysis course
  • Special Operations MILDEC planners course
  • Irregular Warfare course

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