Regional SME - Iran

Overview

Spathe is currently searching for a Regional SME - Iran to join our team in the Tampa, FL area.

 

Spathe Systems is a rapidly growing SOF led, 8(a) defense contractor headquartered in Tampa, FL with offices in Fayetteville, NC and strategic partner locations in Virginia Beach and Coronado. As a small business with a tight knit family feel, Spathe empowers its employees to solve problems and make decisions.

Responsibilities

The Regional SME - Iran will provide analysis, assessment, and related written products in support of SOF global strategy development, planning, and campaigning. 

 

The Regional SME - Iran shall perform tasks such as: 

 

• Provide SMEs with the geopolitical expertise necessary to conduct strategic studies and assessments for the analysis, assessment, and synchronization of the command strategy, command policy, action plan, and strategic assessment. Specifically, provide a SME with deep geopolitical, cultural, and situational understanding for: Iran. 
• Provide SMEs with knowledge of the joint strategic planning system, operational art, and operational design. 
• Conduct strategic analysis and command assessments to provide senior leaders the deep situational understanding they required to make timely and critical decisions for the SOF Enterprise. 
• Develop/leverage professional relationships from across the DoD, interagency, and intelligence community to deliver precise and unique regional and country-specific perspectives to USSOCOM's senior leaders.  
• Develop products and participate in meetings to advise, counsel, and prepare USSOCOM's senior leaders for strategic level engagements and inform their decisions to best effect DoD policies and future strategies. 
• Support USSOCOM J5 planning efforts and seamlessly integrate SOF equities into OPLANs, CONPLANs, and Global Campaign Plans (GCP). 
• Provide planners with the critical information needed to develop concepts, operational approaches, assessments, and readiness reviews. 
• Support and promote superior decision-making via continuous coordination across the combatant command. 
• Support the development of USSOCOM strategic documents by providing subject matter expertise, document preparation and coordination, in-depth analysis of strategic factors, data collection and analysis, seminar/symposium, conference, and war-game participation.  
• Research and analyze various DOD, Interagency, Service, and Combatant Command policies, strategies and concepts associated with USSOCOM strategy and missions.  
• Provide strategic planning and analysis for current contingency plans, including the USSOCOM Global Campaign Plan and other plans.  
• Develop, analyze, and compare alternative USSOCOM strategies to align USSOCOM plans and operations with the national-level strategic guidance and direction, including the National Defense Strategy (NDS), Unified Command Plan (UCP), National Military Strategy (NMS), National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (NS-CT), Contingency Planning Guidance (CPG) Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF), and the National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism (NMSP-WOT).  
• Provide analysis for strategic planning meetings, briefings, seminars, and strategy war games, and provide required SOF subject matter expertise to events related to the future operating environment and interoperability of SOF.   

Qualifications

• 3 years strategy and regional experience (one person for each of the specified regions), preferably SOF-related, working at a DoD Combatant Command OR, Joint Staff OR a 4-Star Command within the past 10 years.    
• 3 years' experience conducting strategic/regional studies and assessments for the analysis, and synchronization of the command strategy.    
• 1 year experience using web-based programs such as, social media platforms, and ALL Microsoft Office products (i.e., SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel). 
• Have a deep understanding of SOF-peculiar and SOF-exquisite capabilities. 

 

Education/Certification Requirements: 

• Senior Service College and/or Master's Degree, preferably in strategic studies, political science, International Affairs/Relations or other related field.

 

Clearance Required:

• TS/SCI

 

Job Type:

• Full Time

 

Additional Compensation:

• Bonus potential 

 

 

Work Location:

• One location - MacDill AFB, FL

 

Travel:

• Up to 20% travel during the year.

 

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• 11 paid holidays per year

 

Schedule: 

• Monday to Friday. Daily start and stop times may vary upon coordination with the COR; however, all personnel are required to be at work a minimum of eight hours during the day, to include the core business hours from 0900 to 1500 daily. 

 

Position ID: PJ5RSI14

Employment Type: FULL_TIME