Planning Officer

Position Overview - The Out of Area Successor Planning Officer is responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive continuity plans specifically focused on out of area successors. This position ensures seamless leadership continuity during continuity events by coordinating with designated successors and ensuring operational readiness for geographically dispersed leadership transition. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed succession plans for out-of-area leadership positions. Ensure plans align with federal continuity policies and customer regulations. Create and update SOPs for successor activation and transition.  
• Serve as primary POC for designated out-of-area successors. Conduct regular briefings and updates with successors to discuss roles and responsibilities. Coordinate successor participation in exercises and training events. Manage logistical and administrative support for successor activities. 
• Work with IT/COMMs team to ensure reliable communication capabilities for successors. Develop and maintain communications protocols for successor activation. Ensure successors have appropriate access to systems and facilities. 
• Work with exercise and training facilitator to design and conduct successor specific training programs. Develop exercise scenarios focused on out-of-area succession challenges. Facilitate after-action reviews and implement lessons learned.  
• Maintain accurate, current documentation of successor plans and procedures. Prepare regular reports on successor readiness and program status. Develop briefing materials for leadership on successor program. Ensure proper handling and storage of materials.
• This role supports senior leadership; working hours may vary depending on stakeholders locations/time zone; however, core hours for this role are from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Required:

• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with relevant polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study
• 8+ years of IC professional experience to include at least 3 years of COOP experience and at least 3 years of experience with our client. 
• Four (4) years of Military/Civilian, DoD/Government, or IC experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.