Cyber Operations Plans Analyst
What you'd do
About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the U.S. Cyber Command - J3, Fort Mead, Maryland.
Major duties
Conduct comprehensive analyses to provide the supervisor, J3, and Command leadership with recommendations and to inform Commander decisions to allocate cyber forces to meet combatant command requirements. Coordinate with Combatant Commanders/Services/Agencies to conduct these comprehensive assessments and make recommendations to the Commander and Secretary of Defense as to joint sourcing solutions for cyber forces. Provide analytical expertise and operational insights to ensure these analyses realistically balance the operational risk of executing campaign plans, combat operations, crisis responses, and other assigned missions against available forces. Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues throughout the DoD cyberspace community, as well as with external partners in the intelligence community, other U.S. Government (USG) agencies, and allied nations Build and maintain a suite of analytical methodologies that is capable of capturing and accurately weighing the many factors that play into defining cyberspace force requirements to achieve national defense-critical operations Coordinate and collaborate with and provides joint force allocation functional expertise and analytical skills to current operations activities,exercises, and assessments
What you need to qualify
CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS". Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement". If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by Conducting analyses of cyberspace forces capabilities to meet command requirements; applying models or simulations to evaluate risk or support recommendations to senior leadership on the operational planning of cyber forces; collaborating with internal or external stakeholders to develop joint recommendations on allocation of cyber forces. This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure.
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