Exercise Planner

Position Summary

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work you'll do

The Exercise Planner serves as an operational and strategic resource on the Headquarters staff, supporting the conceptualization, planning, execution, and assessment of joint and service-level exercises. This critical role provides subject matter expertise on DoD Joint Exercise Planning processes and ensures exercises are designed and executed to sharpen force readiness, coalition interoperability, and alignment with Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) and joint command objectives. The Planner leverages deep understanding of military doctrine, tactics, and command relationships, supporting Higher HQ and subordinate commands as they address complex operational challenges in multi-domain environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Exercise Planning & Management:
  Lead development, coordination, and execution of realistic, high-fidelity joint and service-level exercises that test operational concepts, contingency plans, and warfighting readiness.
• Joint & MAGTF Expertise:
  Apply expertise in joint and Marine Corps doctrine to integrate MAGTF and combined/joint force elements throughout exercise design, execution, and assessment.
• DoD Exercise Lifecycle Support:
  Manage all phases of the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC): requirements analysis, concept and scenario development, event design, scripting, execution, after-action assessment, and lessons learned integration.
• Scenario Development:
  Develop complex, realistic exercise scenarios incorporating multi-domain operations, cyber, logistics, and coalition/interagency play.
• Assessment & Analysis:
  Gather and analyze data throughout the exercise (including observer/controller reports and participant feedback) to produce actionable recommendations and after-action reports that inform future planning and drive operational improvement.
• Cross-functional Coordination:
  Serve as a key interface between Higher and subordinate HQs, other service components, and external partners-including allied and coalition forces-to ensure exercise alignment and interoperability.
• Doctrine and Policy Integration:
  Ensure all exercises reflect current U.S. military policy, established doctrine, command guidance, and current operational priorities.
• Briefings & Reporting:
  Prepare and deliver briefings for leadership, distilling complex exercise objectives, outcomes, and recommendations in clear, actionable formats.

The team

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector's IndustryAdvantageTM.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Active Secret clearance
• 5+ years' experience supporting joint or service-level exercises within Marine higher headquarters, with hands-on involvement in planning, execution, and after-action review
• Demonstrated understanding of the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC) and DoD/Service-level exercise regulations and processes.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel 15-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• Active TS/SCI preferred
• Master's Degree
• Familiarity with Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) structure, roles, command relationships, and operational doctrine
• Completion of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME I/II), Command and Staff College, or Marine Corps equivalent
• Experience developing and managing complex exercise scenarios and delivering post-exercise analysis/lessons learned integration
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with experience delivering executive-level briefings and producing high-impact reports
• Formal certification in Joint Exercise Planning or related DoD training highly valued

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,325 to $188,875.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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Professional development

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Requisition code: 316593

Job ID 316593

Client-provided location(s): Honolulu, HI

Job ID: Deloitte-316593

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-31T19:02:13