International SOF Support SME

International SOF Support SME

The purpose of this task is to provide support to the J3-I mission, accelerate collaboration and interoperability between international Special Operations partners to more effectively deter in competition, respond in crisis, and prevail in conflict.

Responsibilities:

• Support development of and maintain a common operational picture of PN SOF operations and activities to ensure their strategic interests are captured in USSOCOM planning forums such as Global SOF Synchronization Process
• Plan, schedule, draft content for, and execute coordination events (e.g. planning meetings, Secure Video Teleconferences, planning sessions using collaboration tools) with multiple TSOCs, components, North Atlantic Treaty Organization SOF Headquarters, and PN SOF headquarters
• Plan, schedule, draft content for, and coordinate PN SOF inputs to key USSOCOM, TSOC, and SOF component planning processes, including senior leader seminars, GSOS, Trans-Regional Synchronization Forums, Strategic Coalition Alignment Forum, key leader engagements, and J3-I communities of interest and communities of action
• Enhance USSOCOM enterprise planning efforts to include PN SOF units and capabilities; develop and maintain metrics to assess enterprise integration with PN SOF
• Coordinate with Foreign Disclosure Office for release of USSOCOM, combatant command, and Department of War plans to PN SOF representatives; provide a mechanism for tracking requests for information, support, and information release/disclosure where possible, integrate PN SOF directly into planning efforts to enable development of multinational courses of actions and options
• Identify barriers to PN entry into planning processes and provide advice to government on options to address and resolve
• Collect information from PN SOF and publish situation reports that enable J3 to maintain situational awareness and track upcoming decisions regarding the employment of PN SOF; synchronize that information with other inputs (e.g., SOLO, US embassy, TSOC, Geographic Combatant Command reporting) and identify key leader decision points
• Manage the daily schedule of operations of the J3-I facility, which includes controlled access to open-bay secure collaboration spaces, multiple, scalable secure video teleconference planning rooms, two Secure Compartmented Information Facilities, two conference areas, and 20 individual secure country rooms for PN secure coordination with their home countries

Work Location: Tampa, FL

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