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# Effects Planner - Expert at Core One

- **Company:** Core One
- **Location:** Tampa, FL
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreone/jobs/8582454002

## Job description

Join our team at Core One! Our mission is to be at the forefront of devising analytical, operational and technical solutions to our Nation's most complex national security challenges. In order to achieve our mission, Core One values people first! We are committed to recruiting, nurturing, and retaining top talent! We offer a competitive total compensation package that sets us apart from our competition. Core One is a team-oriented, dynamic, and growing company that values exceptional performance!

*This position requires TS/SCI w/ability to sit for CI Poly

Responsibilities:

The Effects Planner facilitates and coordinates all aspects of operational-level planning, synchronization, and integration. They provide planning support encompassing analytics, assessments, target development, and planning advocacy for subordinate commands. Planners refine and align priorities with national-level objectives, ensuring operational goals are nested within strategic directives. They draft special operations related documents, including plans, orders, and authoritative guidance, and advise military staff on their interpretation and application. The contractor shall perform tasks such as:

- Lead cross-functional planning teams to synchronize effects into a cohesive operational plan.
- Facilitate working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
- Conduct analysis to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.
- Develop Measures of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) to assess whether an operation is achieving its intended results.
- Lead the operational-level target development process, nominating specific targets or actions that support the overall campaign plan.
- Analyze the results of ongoing operations and provide formal assessments to leadership on their effectiveness.
- Analyze national-level strategic guidance to ensure all operational plans and priorities are nested within and supportive of strategic directives.
- Refine, prioritize, and advocate for the plans and resource requirements of subordinate commands during higher-level planning conferences.
- Draft, write, and staff major special operations related documents, such as Concept of Operations (CONPLANs), Operations Orders (OPORDs), and formal planning guidance.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on a published plan, advising military staff and subordinate units on its interpretation, application, and intent.
- Prepare and deliver briefings to senior leaders on the details of a proposed or current plan, outlining the intended effects and synchronization.

Qualifications:

- Master’s degree in Public Policy, Government, International Affairs/Relations, or closely related discipline; or War College graduate.
- Minimum 20 years of combined work-related experience with minimum of 10 years since 2015 as a Planner at the O-6 or higher level within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
- Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
- Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with Planning activities.
- Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymaker (e.g. General/Flag Officer level or higher).
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning teams.
- Experience facilitating working groups to deconflict resources, timing, and objectives between different subordinate commands and staff sections.
- Skilled at translating complex operational problems into clear, concise briefings and reports that directly inform planning and operations.
- Works with a high degree of autonomy to tackle difficult and ambiguous planning scenarios
- Ability to identify key vulnerabilities and nodes within a target system that, if acted upon, will produce the desired effect.

Security Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to sit for CI Poly.

Core One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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## About Core One

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Core One delivers analytical, operational, and technical solutions to the most complex national security challenges facing the U.S. government.
- **Entity Type**: Private (revenue-funded, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Sterling, Virginia, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Patrick Moniz (CEO & Co‑founder), Joseph Koo (President & Co‑founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense, national security, intelligence, space manufacturing
- **Target customers**: U.S. government agencies (DoD, Intelligence Community, Special Operations)
- **Mission/purpose**: “Deliver solutions that anticipate and address the most complex challenges facing the U.S. national security community,” helping clients “secure enduring strategic dominance.”

## Products & Services
- **Mission Integration**: Fuses intelligence and defense expertise to craft solutions across blurred mission boundaries.
- **Intelligence Analysis**: Enables the intelligence community to produce actionable intelligence for threat mitigation.
- **Defense Programs**: Partners with the Department of Defense to deliver capabilities that deter aggression and ensure global stability.
- **Operational Support**: Provides advisory to the highest levels of the U.S. national security and defense apparatus.
- **Training & Logistics**: Designs and conducts over 5,000 exercises, red cells, and test environments; runs advanced special operations training courses.
- **Strategic Services**: Advisory, planning, and synchronization support for strategic initiatives.
- **Custom Technical Solutions**: Builds and scales secure, scalable technical solutions (30+ unique solutions delivered).
- **All-Source Analysis, Cyber Security, Data Science, DevOps, Cloud Architecture**: Various technical service lines deployed across 117 locations worldwide.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Annual Revenue**: ~$27M (as of ~2025, per LinkedIn data)
- **Headcount**: 107 employees (37% year‑over‑year growth, +50 people)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors disclosed. Key government partners include USSOCOM, DoD, and Intelligence Community agencies. Board member Mac Curtis joined in June 2025.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Awarded USSOCOM J59 Futures Planning and Synchronization Prime Contract (Jan 2025)
  - Awarded IC Division contract in Northern Virginia expanding software, data, and DevOps capabilities (Feb 2025)
  - Acquired Calhoun International (Dec 2024) and Global Research Analytics (Feb 2023)
  - Active job postings: 86 (monthly +21%, quarterly +19%, yearly +51%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Mission focus**: Deep specialization in U.S. national security with a singular focus on government partners.
- **Discretion & trust**: Operates with “utmost discretion” to maintain operational security – a cornerstone of long‑term partner relationships.
- **Integrated intelligence‑defense capability**: Bridges intelligence and defense communities, offering seamless support across mission sets.
- **Proven scale**: Has rapidly established and scaled operations at 117 CONUS/OCONUS locations.
- **Talent pipeline**: Attracts experienced professionals from top defense contractors (e.g., Amentum, PAE, SAIC, GDIT).

## Strategic Focus
- Continue geographic and capability expansion through strategic acquisitions and prime contract wins.
- Grow technical services (software, data, DevOps, cloud) to complement traditional intelligence and operational support.
- Deepen relationships with USSOCOM, IC, and DoD by delivering integrated, forward‑leaning solutions.
- Maintain elite training and exercise capabilities to simulate modern threat environments.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful work**: Employees support critical national security missions that protect the country, with a culture of “relentless dedication.”
- **Culture**: Collegial, principled, and mission‑first; described as “highly effective team” that values adaptability, discretion, and integrity.
- **Benefits**:
  - Competitive, market‑based compensation and performance bonuses
  - 6% 401(k) company match, vested immediately
  - Health, dental, vision insurance (individual & family)
  - Paid time off, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave (paid for new parents)
  - Flexible Spending Accounts (medical and child‑care, tax‑free)
  - Life & disability insurance at no cost
  - Training and certification reimbursements
- **Career growth**: Individual development plans; roles span Intelligence Analysis, Operations, Corporate, Application Development, Training & Logistics.
- **Locations**: Sterling, VA (HQ) and sites across the U.S. and overseas (Philippines). Many roles require TS/SCI clearance and may involve travel.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office based on mission needs; emphasis on collaboration and focused teamwork.

## Sources
1. [Core One – About](https://www.coreone.com/company)
2. [Core One – Careers](https://www.coreone.com/careers)
3. [Core One – Homepage](https://www.coreone.com/)
4. [Core One – Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreone)
5. [Core One – LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coreone)

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