Cyber / Intel Planner

Cape Fox subsidiary Kwaan Tech is seeking an experienced Cyber/Intelligence Planner. The Cyber / Intel Planner will provide a range of services to support planning efforts, related staff actions, and coordination with counterparts within the customer agency and across the Department of Defense. The Planner will perform independent reviews of plans, strategies, policy and operational taskings, translate doctrine, and provide recommendations to Agency leadership. Planner duties include, but are not limited to, support to reviews and development of campaign plans, deliberate planning, crisis management and time sensitive planning.

• Possess a mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.

• Is able to define comprehensive, new, or unique approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.

• Demonstrate in-depth analysis of operations, training, and exercise management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.

• Is able to work independently and with minimal oversight.

• Review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic product

• Support establishing and maintaining relationships with relevant intelligence community (IC) partners to ensure IC input into joint cyber defense plans.

• Support developing and maintaining frameworks, processes, or procedures required to formalize how intelligence support and coordination is conducted within JCDC.
• Identify relevant cyber intelligence resources and products and provides additional analysis to inform cyber operations planning.
• Develop plans to limit, mitigate, or defend against coordinated, malicious cyber operations that pose a potential risk to critical infrastructure or national interests.
• Develop detailed plans for the conduct or support of cyber operations through collaboration with other planners, operators and/or analysts.
• Coordinate document reviews across internal and external partners, consolidates feedback, and prepares revised documents.
• Support participation in interagency meetings by developing talking points, briefing materials, meeting notes, and summaries of conclusion.
• Review status of projects, manages schedules, and prepares status reports.
• Assess project issues and develops recommendations to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Support coordination with IC partners in identifying and submitting Key Intelligence Questions (KIQs), Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), and Collection Requirements (CRs), checking IC and CISA internal holdings for relevant cyber threat intelligence and lead coordination to ensure relevant intelligence is incorporated into the planning process.
• Establish measures of effectiveness for cyber defense plans that examine current plans and prior cyber incidents for lessons learned and best practices.
• Coordinate and facilitates internal and external partner engagements including IC partners facilitating information exchange and responding to requests for information or assistance.
• Support program management functions related to compartmented intelligence programs.

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to create and implement strategies to acquire and operationalize cyber programs.
• Working knowledge of cyber operations theory, employment, and tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Working knowledge to access intelligence community resources and analyze cyber intelligence products.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve program support deficiencies.
• Proven ability to develop and recommend corrective actions.
• U.S citizenship required.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI and complete a counterintelligence Polygraph.
• Experience conducting/producing intelligence products.
• Excellent written & oral communication, research, and analytic skills
• Expert experience with Microsoft Office Applications.

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