Program Manager/Exercise Planner SME Job Category: Project and Program Management Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25% Type of Travel: Continental US * * * **What You’ll Get to Do:** As a CACI-OFS Program Manager/Exercise Planner SME, you will be responsible for providing planning services to enhance readiness, inform decision-makers, test capabilities, and improve coordination among USINDOPACOM and its mission partners in support of United States India-Pacific Command's (USINDOPACOM) core responsibility as one of six geographic Unified Combatant Commands of the U.S. Armed Forces. USINDOPACOM is supported by six component commands: U.S. Pacific Fleet, U.S. Pacific Air Forces, U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific, U.S. Space Force – INDOPACOM and U.S. Marine Forces, Pacific. USINDOPACOM’s mission is to protect and defend, in concert with other U.S. Government agencies, the territory of the U.S., its people, and its interests. The USINDOPACOM area of responsibility (AOR) comprises 38 nations in and surrounding the Indian and Pacific Oceans which collectively account for approximately 60% of the world’s population, 3,000 different languages, several of the world’s largest militaries, and five nations allied with the U.S. through mutual defense treaties. There are few regions as culturally, socially, economically, and geo-politically diverse as the Asia-Pacific region. USINDOPACOM also represents a highly complex and extensive Department of Defense (DoD) organization in terms of personnel and equipment. As a geographic combatant command, USINDOPACOM is in charge of using and integrating the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Marine Corps forces within the USINDOPACOM AOR to achieve U.S. national security objectives while protecting national interests. USINDOPACOM, its multiple components, and sub-unified commands are headquartered in Hawai’i with forces stationed and deployed throughout the AOR. As the Program Manager, you will support USINDOPACOM and its strategic and operational partners, managing a complex program that provides professional services in support of advisory and analysis efforts associated with Operations, Logistics, Training, Exercises, Financial Strategic Analysis and Key leader Communications. You will lead and manage a team of experts that provides USINDOPACOM with a wide range of professional services that inform the development and execution of capabilities designed to address warfighter mission needs across the USINDOPACOM enterprise. **More About the Role:** As a PM/Exercise Planner SME, you will provide planning services to enhance readiness, inform decision-makers, test capabilities, and improve coordination among USINDOPACOM and its mission partners. These planning services may vary widely in scope, objectives, and participants depending on the mission partner(s) and effort. Planning services generally fall into the following categories: strategic, operational, and tactical in coordination with USINDOPACOM, its mission partners, joint forces, and various military branches to promote interoperability, foster collaboration, and meet DoD and U.S. military objectives. Other duties include but are not limited to: + Organizing exercises and simulations to assess and validate the readiness of military units, including deployment, sustainment, and force protection through realistic scenarios that test the ability to execute specific missions or activities. + Facilitating interagency exercises that promote collaboration between USINDOPACOM and mission partners to enhance coordination and response to complex security challenges, including natural disasters and homeland defense scenarios. + Assisting with the development of exercise goals, objectives, performance metrics, and supporting products. + Developing Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) injects, objectives, scenarios, events, and vignettes. + Developing necessary planning, policy, procedures, and roadmap documentation (e.g., wargaming, exercise plans, contingency operations, medical plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), Courses of Actions (COAs), and Operation Plans (OPLANs) Execution Orders (EXORDs); Operation Orders (OPORDS); campaign plans; policies; and other strategic and authoritative documents, Tactics, Techniques, Procedures (TTPs), and roadmaps). + Conducting AARs, developing information papers, and documenting lessons learned. As PM, You will embed at USINDOPACOM, located at Camp H.M. Smith HQ in Oahu, HI and may travel as required, to perform services at other locations within the USINDOPACOM AOR or Area of Interest (AOI) to meet mission requirements in both CONUS and OCONUS locations. You will serve as CACI’s primary POC to the PRIME Contractor – Deloitte - for all matters related to Task Order execution and provide overall leadership and guidance for contractor personnel assigned to the USINDOPACOM Task Order including assigning tasks to contractor personnel, supervising on-going technical efforts, and managing overall Task performance. You will be responsible for the quality and efficiency of all assigned tasks, including both technical issues and business processes. **You’ll Bring These Qualifications:** + Current Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Security Clearance. + A Bachelor's degree + Possess an active certification in one of the following: + Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional or + PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP®) Certification + More than seven (7) years of relevant experience in program management of similar programs of size and scope. + Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in planning and executing Joint Exercises at the Combatant Command level. + Three (3) years experience on a combatant command staff. + Minimum three years of experience using the Joint Exercise Life Cycle process to develop Joint and Combined exercises. + Must be self-motivated and operate efficiently and effectively without direct supervision in joint and interagency environments while maintaining communication with and responsiveness to the client. + You must possess the ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing. + You will be able to provide daily feedback to the team on product development and task execution. + Be deployable to the required theater of operations, usually conducting periodic travel within CONUS and OCONUS locations. **These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:** + Experience managing projects and/or programs with multiple CONUS and OCONUS performance locations. + Experience managing cost-type contracts. + Professional military education; intermediate or higher-level service Staff College. + More than five (5) years of experience working in a Joint Staff or Geographic Combatant Command environment. + Subject Matter Expertise with the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC), CJCSI 3500.01J Joint Training Policy, and CJCS Guide 3501 The Joint Training Process. + Recent experience supporting USINDOPACOM. **What We Can Offer You:** + CACI-Operational and Functional Support Division resides within CACI’s Mission and Engineering Support Line of Business. As the premier provider of Operational and Functional expertise capabilities; and strategic operational and intelligence Embedded Support; CACI-OFS has a reputation for uncompromising standards of quality in its people and its performance. Joining the CACI-OFS team is a mark of excellence for those employees who complete our rigorous Mission-Focused Staffing process. + CACI-OFS’s mission places its personnel against the government’s most critical emerging challenges. Work with us, and you’ll be working with a team making a difference across the globe. + CACI-OFS offers competitive benefits, generous flex time off as well as numerous learning and development opportunities. + As a Key sub-Contractor for this effort, CACI-OFS offers unmatched stability and growth potential within the program - ______________________________________________________________________________ **What You Can Expect:** **A culture of integrity.** At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation. **An environment of trust.** CACI takes pride in fostering a diverse and accessible culture where every individual feels supported to chart their own path. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality. **A focus on continuous growth.** Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy. **Your potential is limitless.** So is ours. Learn more about CACI here. (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/life-at-caci) ______________________________________________________________________________ **Pay Range** : There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/employee-benefits) . The proposed salary range for this position is: $94,000 - $197,400 _CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic._