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Expert Effects Planner

Prescient Edge
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Tampa, FL, USA
Sep 21, 2026

Prescient Edge is seeking a Expert Effects Plannerto support a Federal Government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Benefits:
At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

  • A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities. 
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
  • A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
  • Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
  • A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

  • The Effects Planner shall facilitate and coordinate all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration.
  • They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands.
  • Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives.
  • They draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application.
  • Should perform tasks such as:
  • Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.
  • Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
  • Conduct analysis to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
  • Develop Measures of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) to assess whether an operation is achieving its intended results.
  • Lead the operational-level target development process, nominating specific targets or actions that support the overall campaign plan.
  • Analyze the results of ongoing operations and provide formal assessments to leadership on their effectiveness.
  • Analyze national-level strategic guidance to ensure all operational plans and priorities are nested within and supportive of strategic directives.
  • Refine, prioritize, and advocate for the plans and resource requirements of subordinate commands during higher-level planning conferences.
  • Draft, write, and staff major special operations related documents, such as Concept of Operations (CONPLANs), Operations Orders (OPORDs), and formal planning guidance.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert on a published plan, advising military staff and subordinate units on its interpretation, application, and intent.
  • Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leaders on the details of a proposed or current plan, outlining the intended effects and synchronization.
Job Requirements

Desired experience:

  • Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience with minimum of 10 years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6 or higher level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
  • Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
  • Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with Planning activities.
  • Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning teams
  • Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ability to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
  • Skilled at translating complex operational problems into clear, concise briefings and reports that directly inform planning and operations.
  • Works with a high degree of autonomy to tackle difficult and ambiguous planning scenarios.

Education:

  • Master’s degree in public policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate.

Security clearance:

  • Active TS/SCI and with the ability to obtain a CI Poly if needed.

Location:

  • HQ USSOCOM, MacDill AFB, FL.
Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.

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