Exercise Planner

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About the Position

Dexis Professional Services is seeking Exercise Planners to support a potential opportunity with the Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa based in Stuttgart, Germany and/or Naples, Italy.

The Exercise Planner place of duty will be Headquarters MARFOREUR/AF. The Exercise Planner supports the AC/S for Operations (G3), or the AC/S for Strategy and Plans (G5) and is the primary action officer for one or more assigned joint or service-component exercises and assists the assigned exercise lead planners in other exercises.

Responsibilities

• Plans and coordinates USMC participation in assigned joint and service (Title 10) exercises.
• Ensures exercise purpose, exercise objectives, training audience, and training objectives support the MARFOREUR/AF Campaign Plan and Command Training Plan.
• Coordinates across the MARFOREUR/AF staff in order to integrate the appropriate level of staff oversight and
  participation in exercise planning and execution.
• Ensures assigned exercise and events are coordinated with all stakeholders to include respective combatant command headquarters, other service component and subunified command headquarters, exercise participants, the host nation and other allied armed forces participants, interagency partners, international organizations, and respective U.S.
  Embassy personnel.
• Maintains appropriate entries in Command and Control Information Environment (C2IE).
• Coordinates and sources exercise participants in the Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS).
• Determines exercise funding requirements and sources and manages exercise budget.
• Drafts, coordinates, and provides in-progress reviews (IPRs) and exercise confirmation briefs at an appropriate level consistent with event scope and objectives, up to and including briefs at the combatant commander and ambassadorial levels.
• Ensures exercise participants understand mission, intent, concept of operations, RSO&I requirements, liberty
  regulations, etc.
• Maintains a common operational picture (COP) for assigned exercises by keeping exercise portal pages, concept
  slides, and JTIMS current, and by providing updates to MARFOREUR/AF's monthly exercise report.
• Coordinates assessment and after-action reviews for assigned exercises.
• Plans, organizes, and conducts exercise planning conferences to support the five stages of the Joint Event Life
  Cycle (JELC).
• Provides current operations support as a member of the MARFOREUR/AF Command Center watch team on an as required basis

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10 years of directly related military experience; OR 15 years of directly related military experience.
• Possesses a US Secret or higher-level clearance and a valid passport.
• Has completed Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase I.
• Must be able and willing to travel anywhere in the EUCOM and AFRICOM Areas of Responsibility.
• Must be able and willing to travel frequently (may be up to 50%).
• Must be able to work extended hours in support of exercise requirements.
• Must be an effective communicator both verbally and in writing, and able to brief senior military leaders.
• Must be proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of programs including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and SharePoint.
• Fluency with Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) concepts is preferred.
• A minimum of three years' joint exercise planning experience at the service component- or combatant command level, and demonstrating fluency with joint operations, the Joint Training System, and the Joint Training Information System (JTIMS) is preferred

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Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted for interview.

Dexis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, pregnancy, disability, age, genetic information, military service, veteran status, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, childbirth and related medical conditions, including lactation, or any other protected class under applicable law.

As part of a competitive benefits package for eligible employees, Dexis provides healthcare insurance in addition to other staff welfare benefits and perks.

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