Cyber Operations Plans Analyst

Full Job Description

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 Fort Meade, Maryland. 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.

Current Army Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee Current Army Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Employee Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions Current DoD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Employee (non-Army) Current Permanent DoD Civilian Employee (non-Army) Applying to Cyber Excepted Service Positions 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 of 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 1) Developing target audience analysis based on information such as target development and signals intelligence reporting for full spectrum cyberspace operations; 2) Conducting military planning or implementation for offensive cyberspace operations; AND 3) Supporting cyberspace or information operations programs by implementing applicable core strategies, plans and policy.

Major Duties:

• Conduct long-range, strategic planning efforts with internal and external partners. Develop and maintain deliberate and/or crisis plans
• Coordinate with intelligence and cyber defense partners to obtain relevant and essential information to inform planning analyses.
• Develop elements of cyber operations plans and guidance to ensure that execution and resource allocation decisions align with organizational objectives.
• Provide inputs for the identification of cyber-related success criteria. Provide inputs for the analysis, design, development, or acquisition of capabilities used for meeting objectives
• Ensure operational planning efforts are effectively transitioned to current operations
• Maintain situational awareness to determine if changes to the operating environment require review of the plan
• Submit or respond to requests for deconfliction of cyber operations in support of these real-time cyberspace operations to identify, investigate, and pose solutions
• Facilitate interactions between internal and external partners and key decision-makers as required to deconflict, synchronize, and integrate these last-minute courses of action in support of shared operational objectives
• Review, conduct, and participate in audits of cyberspace operations involving application of IdM methods and capabilities during actual cyber operations and during exercises
• Provide input for the development and refinement of the cyber operations objectives, priorities, strategies, plans, and programs
• As indicated by findings, make recommendations regarding operational planning and execution to improve efficiency and effectiveness