As a member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Integrated Operations Division (IOD), the participant will support CISA’s planning mission for critical infrastructure security, resilience, preparedness, and incident coordination.Working with experienced regional planners and operational personnel, the participant will gain practical exposure to strategic and operational planning processes that support CISA’s regional mission. The curriculum includes research and analysis of critical infrastructure risks, dependencies, and cascading effects; development and revision of planning products; stakeholder coordination; meeting facilitation; policy and program analysis; and preparation of decision-support materials.This SkillBridge opportunity is appropriate for transitioning service members with experience in operational planning, emergency management, continuity, intelligence analysis, infrastructure protection, cybersecurity planning, communications planning, military operations, policy development, resource planning, or related program-management disciplines.
The participant will be assigned to an IOD Regional Operations Branch or related planning team and will work alongside CISA personnel responsible for regional strategic and operational planning. The participant will assist with research, planning-product development, stakeholder coordination, meeting support, risk and dependency analysis, and preparation of reports and briefings.Assignments will be tailored to the participant’s background, availability, host-office workload, and authorized access. The participant will not exercise inherently governmental authority, make official agency decisions, or independently represent CISA.Orientation and Planning-Mission Familiarization• Complete required onboarding, orientation, and host-office introductions.• Receive an overview of CISA, IOD, Regional Operations, and the host office’s planning responsibilities.• Review approved planning guidance, regional plans, relevant standard operating procedures, and prior planning products.• Become familiar with applicable national frameworks, plans, and preparedness concepts relevant to the host office’s mission.• Develop an individual learning plan with the host supervisor that identifies development objectives, anticipated assignments, and expected products.Planning Research and Environmental Analysis• Conduct research on critical infrastructure sectors, regional hazards, emerging risks, stakeholder concerns, and mission dependencies.• Assist in identifying potential physical, cyber, communications, natural, technological, or human-caused risks that may affect critical infrastructure.• Support qualitative and quantitative analysis of planning issues, available data, and potential information gaps.• Assist with documenting infrastructure dependencies, interdependencies, and potential cascading effects relevant to regional planning.• Prepare research summaries, issue papers, data-call responses, or planning-background materials for review.• Participate in internal planning discussions and appropriate partner engagements.Plan Development and Revision• Support the development, revision, and maintenance of regional strategic and operational planning products.• Assist with drafting or updating planning sections, annexes, concepts of operations, standard operating procedures, checklists, and implementation trackers.• Help ensure planning products identify objectives, roles, responsibilities, assumptions, dependencies, milestones, resource considerations, and coordination requirements.• Support integration of stakeholder feedback and lessons learned into planning products.• Assist with crosswalks among planning documents, policies, preparedness frameworks, and host-office priorities.• Develop draft recommendations to resolve planning gaps or improve plan usability, subject to supervisory review.Stakeholder Coordination and Planning Execution• Assist with planning meetings, workshops, working groups, and coordination sessions.• Prepare agendas, read-ahead materials, discussion guides, meeting notes, action-item trackers, and follow-up communications.• Coordinate inputs from CISA divisions, federal partners, regional offices, and other stakeholders, as directed.• Support facilitation of planning discussions intended to identify gaps, clarify roles, build consensus, and document decisions.• Track plan-development milestones, dependencies, open issues, and responsible parties.• Draft concise status reports and leadership briefing materials.Assessment, Recommendations, and Capstone Product• Assist with evaluating a planning process, plan, or program area to identify strengths, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.• Develop a supervised capstone product, such as a planning issue paper, regional risk/dependency analysis, plan-update recommendation, stakeholder-engagement summary, or implementation tracker.• Prepare a briefing that describes the issue, analysis, options, recommended actions, and implementation considerations.• Participate in an end-of-program review with the host supervisor.• Document completed learning objectives, developmental products, and recommended next steps for continued professional development.
Secret Clearance; Demonstrated experience in operational planning, emergency management, continuity planning, intelligence, cybersecurity, communications, critical infrastructure, military operations, policy, program analysis, or a related field. Ability to research complex issues, analyze qualitative and quantitative information, and prepare concise written products. Strong facilitation, coordination, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, US Space Force
TO APPLY: Tailor a resume outlining the requirements and role description. Title the email "Region 9 Regional Planner Skillbridge." Address the email to military@cisa.dhs.gov. Include your projected Skillbridge start/end dates in the body of the email.
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