Senior Exercise Planner - McLean, United States - Non-Departmental Agency

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    Summary



    The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leads the nation's effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.

    Duties


    Lead the design, development and execution of discussion-based counterterrorism exercises that meet the training needs of international, federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector partners.


    Manage engagements with international, federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector partners to identify exercise purpose, scope, and objectives based on the need to develop new intelligence and information sharing plans, policies, and procedures or test existing ones.


    Research and develop a variety of complex terrorism scenarios based on terrorism case studies, real-world threats, and tactics, techniques and procedures.


    Design and develop all types of exercise documentation, as outlined in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, to include scenarios, injects, discussion questions, exercise evaluation guides, facilitator guides, and after-action reports.

    Lead facilitated discussions during exercise execution to meet exercise objectives and identify best practices/areas for improvement.

    Compile and analyze information captured during the exercise and draft an after-action report.

    Provide context and recommendations to managers on exercise-related issues, policies and procedures.


    Maintain productive working relationships with ODNI staff, other IC organizations, and private service providers in order to effectively prepare for and respond to counterterrorism issues, and coordinate strategic planning, best practices, lessons learned, programming, and policy issues.


    Recommend the transfer of personnel, funds, or additional resources, across the IC to improve efficiency of effectiveness of intelligence activities against their assigned missions.