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Planning Support Subject Matter Expert

📍 Location
Camp Smith
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 13, 2026

About the Role

**Description**

The Operational Planning & Posture SME is the branch’s technical/functional authority for deliberate planning support and posture-related planning integration. The role defines and sustains planning-support rigor—standards, quality gates, and expert advisory—so high-visibility products remain coherent, defensible, and aligned with guidance across the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC). Unlike the Senior role, the SME does not own daily suspense tracking/battle rhythm execution; the SME intervenes where complexity, risk, or ambiguity threatens outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

+ **Define** planning-support standards (templates, quality gates, staffing checklists, traceability expectations, version-control conventions) for branch-wide use
+ **Advise** government leads on complex planning-support approaches (staffing strategy, integration paths, decision points, adjudication methods)
+ **Perform** senior technical review o...

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