Junior Exercise Planner
Arlington, TX - USA
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Leidos is seeking a Junior Exercise Planner to be a part of an exercise support team providing HSEEP exercise planning and design development conduct and evaluation support for CISAs National Cybersecurity Exercise Program (NCEP) including supporting all aspects of exercise coordination documentation participant support and basic reporting activities. This role supports both day-to-day program operations and execution of exercise events by maintaining organized materials tracking actions and supporting tools used to register track and analyze participants and findings.
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Junior Exercise Planner (TS/SCI)
Primary Responsibilities Include:
Support aspects of exercise design development conduct and evaluation on a team working concurrently on multiple exercises across the country.
Provide administrative and coordination support for exercise planning meetings including scheduling logistics and capturing action minutes.
Support creation and maintenance of exercise documentation packages (e.g. invitations sign-in sheets meeting notes and other administrative documents).
Support participant registration and tracking activities using technical tools provided/used by the program.
Support collection and organization of findings recommendations and lessons learned for post-exercise products.
Support program operations tasks as directed (e.g. maintaining an exercise calendar assisting with content organization on supporting all-hands coordination).
Support development of exercise scenarios discussion questions injects goals and objectives exercise conduct materials and evaluation materials.
Participate in meetings with Senior Exercise Planners and Regional Exercise Leads regularly to ensure timely production of materials and exercise execution.
Required Experience Skills and Education:
ActiveTS/SCIclearance.
Ability to obtain DHS EOD.
2 years experience developing conducting and evaluating HSEEP exercises.
Demonstrated experience writing exercise planning conduct and evaluation materials.
Experience providing administrative and documentation support in a fast-paced operations environment (meeting logistics calendars correspondence and deadline tracking).
Strong attention to detail supporting editing/formatting so products align to style expectations and are free of grammatical errors.
Ability to meet DHS suitability and the clearance requirement applicable to the assigned role (TS/SCI for designated personnel; otherwise Public Trust fitness type) as described in the SOW.
Preferred Experience Skills and Education:
Experience supporting data collection and basic analysis activities (e.g. compiling survey results and tracking trends over time).
Experience supporting dashboards or visual tools that provide visibility into operations and key performance indicators.
Experience with cybersecurity exercises.
Cybersecurity Certifications
Security
ISC2
Clearance Required:
ActiveTS/SCIclearance.
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Original Posting:
June 4 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $82550.00 - $149225.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
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