Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• Provide fiscal-year-specific strategic planning support that aligns with overarching Strategic Plan goals, initiatives, and objectives – ensuring alignment, facilitating leadership planning sessions and offsites

• Develop strategic planning resources, and tracking progress via metrics.

• Support updates to the Strategic Plan, as required, based on strategic guidance, work requirements, or priorities.

• Support updates to previously delivered products such as the Workload Analysis Reports, Roles & Responsibilities documentation, Command Climate Survey, Yearly Workload Assessment, as well as provide additional facilitation, professional development, and other organizational effectiveness support.

• Monitor Developments in adversary capabilities and coordinate designated subject matter experts to incorporate modeling and simulation data.

• Knowledge of Defense and Naval Strategic guidance and related commentary, trends in budgeting and acquisition, operations and maintenance impacts and current Naval Doctrine and Operation Concepts.

• Manage the incorporate of analysist, preparation, and management of materials to strategically communicate the mission and priorities.

• Provide strategic advice and operational context to stakeholders including and industry/academia - facilitating alignment of goals with overall Navy Strategy, Fleet Requirements, and Budget Priorities.

Experience Required:

• Ten years of Navy operational experience, including at least five years assigned to a US Navy ship.

• Five years of Navy budget, programming, concept development, and/or acquisition experience at either Echelon I or Echelon II levels.

• Significant experience (time and/or responsibility) related to the AEGIS Combat System.

• Skilled at coalescing, presenting and explaining strategic issues in the context of current technical challenges to a variety of audiences, from new hires to senior decision makers.

• Capable of using Microsoft Office Products, including Microsoft PowerPoint, for presentations and display.

• Expert written and oral communication skills.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Experience

• MA degree in National Security Studies or Military/Maritime fields, or an MS degree in Naval Architecture, Engineering, Combat Systems, or related field from an accredited college.

• Served as Commanding Officer of an AEGIS destroyer or cruiser.

• Experience facilitating War Rooms, Wargames, or Table Top Exercises.

• Prior experience as an Instructor on Naval topics.

• Within the last five years, experience with Surface Navy Combat Systems development or acquisition.  

• Within the last five years, experience in either OPNAV or NAVSEA organizations