Senior Special Operations Analyst (SOA), USSOCOM J8-S

Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group is seeking a qualified Senior Special Operations Analyst to support the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Force Structure Requirements Resources and Strategic Assessments Directorate (J8) Strategic Planning and Analysis Division (J8-S). Their mission is to provide senior leadership independent analysis and studies involving current and future Special Operations Force (SOF) requirements inform J8 decisions in development of the USSOCOM Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and collaborate with Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to develop analytic products and guidance. The division provides reliable analytic tools and products enabling senior leaders to make informed and defendable resourcing decisions. The Joint Mission Analysis (JMA) remains an important effort providing senior SOF leaders with a force structure mix of capabilities and capacities required to execute DoDs strategy and inform building the USSOCOM POM.

Specific duties may include but are not limited to:

• The Senior Special Operations Analysts are considered Subject Matter Experts (SME) in their designated specialty and will apply their experience and training to all tasks assigned.
• Maintain Subject Matter Expertise of Global and Regional Plans and the USSOCOM Campaign Plan for Global Special Operations (CPGSO) as these documents may be relevant to Concept of Operations (CONOP) development for the Defense Planning Scenarios.
• Conduct participate or support analysis as required for JCIDS and SOFCIDS as defined in SOCOM Directive 71-4 using JMA data data from other approved databases models and other analytic tools to determine how the procurement of the item would address capability gaps increase effectiveness or increase efficiency.
• Provide JMA data to support studies analyses and the development of other models war games and simulations that are critical to the execution of command activities.
• Develop coordinate and maintain Analysis Plan for JMA ensuring SOF Force Elements have been identified and accurately portrayed to allow consistent application within the JMA database to Defense Planning Scenarios (DPS).
• Apply the Strategic Programming Guidance (SPG) and the DPG into analysis that can be used to assess special operations force design and force planning.
• Utilize the Special Operations Forces Analysis and Modeling System (SOFAMS) suite of software products to support the POM development cycle.
• Interpret SOF adaptations and the SOF portion of OSD Planning Scenarios into tactical level Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) to analyze required special operations force structure and perform the following:
  • Support Government generation of requirements for SOF using the latest J5 SOF Operating Concept.
  • Enter CONOPS into the JMA database to track SOF requirements.
  • Maintain Quality Control of user-entered data inside the JMA database.
• Provide a Risk-Constrained Force Structure using SOF Capabilities-Based Risk Assessment Allocation Tool (SCRAAM). This tool provides a methodical progression to constrain the force that illustrates the risk within a particular force structure.
• Work with Government and contract Operations Research/Systems Analysis (ORSA) to develop analytical products derived from the JMA database including special operations force structure analysis assessing the capability and capacity of force elements (units and platforms across the spectrum of USSOCOM programs of record) to accomplish specified missions for DPS using planning factors rules and assumptions to provide:
  • An evaluation of the capability and capacity of the force required to execute the NDS (Objective Force) and the supporting analytic data.
  • Generate strategy-to-task relationships from strategic-level documents to correctly portray global SOF operations and emerging requirements.
  • Conduct force structure excursions using both qualitative and quantitative techniques to assess risk and to articulate the adequacy of a particular force structure.
  • Analyze various fiscally constrained resource files against specific requirements sets to highlight the sufficiency/risks of a force structure.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of uniformed military experience with 5 years assigned in a Special Operations Unit.
• 3 years of experience (can be concurrent with the 10 years above) in deliberate planning or demonstrated expertise in joint planning is desired as SOF CONOP development is required.
• Top Secret Clearance desired but must possess a current DoD Secret clearance and be upgradable to Top Secret within 4 months and eligible for SCI access and ACCM read-on.

Clearance: Requires an Active Secret Clearance; Top Secret desired and eligibility for SCI access and ACCM read-on

Location: MacDill AFB

Travel: Some travel may be required