MAGTF Operations Expert

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer oriented MAGTF OPERATIONS EXPERT to join our team in STAFFORD, VA.

This is an on-site position supporting government and USMC customers by bridging operational doctrine and technical analysis to ensure data-driven insights are practical, operationally sound, and aligned with current and future Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) capabilities.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

● Serve as a MAGTF operations subject matter expert in support of G-3 assessment activities, reviewing complex analytical products, data science methodologies, and model outputs through a tactical, operational, and strategic military lens.

● Assess the operational validity and applicability of data-driven findings, concepts, and recommendations against Marine Corps doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures, MAGTF capabilities, and interoperability requirements.

● Evaluate future capabilities, force design initiatives, and science and technology efforts to determine their operational utility and relevance to MAGTF employment and decision-making.

● Translate operational problems, assessment questions, and command priorities into structured analytical inputs that align technical analysis with operational needs and decision-maker requirements.

● Formulate analytically supported recommendations that inform assessments, force development, experimentation, planning, and senior leader decision-making.

● Prepare and deliver briefs, reports, and other assessment products while collaborating with analysts, planners, warfighters, engineers, and subject matter experts to interpret findings and identify operational implications.

Minimum Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as military studies, national security studies, operations research, systems engineering, engineering, political science, history, or a related discipline.

● 10+ years of experience supporting military operations, operational planning, operational assessment, force development, experimentation, or related mission-focused activities. A total of 15 years experience without a degree.

● Expert level in MAGTF operations and demonstrated understanding of Marine Corps doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures, organization, capabilities, expeditionary warfare principles, and interoperability requirements.

● Experience at the MEF, MARFOR, or combatant command planning level, or in a comparable integrated MAGTF operational planning or assessment role.

● Experience reviewing or interpreting technical, analytical, modeling, simulation, or data science products in support of military planning, assessment, force design, future capabilities development, or science and technology initiatives.

● Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing briefs, reports, and decision-support products for senior military and civilian leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience as a Marine Corps Planner with MOS 0505 or 0507.

● Experience supporting Marine Corps, Navy, or joint assessments, concept development, experimentation, force design, or requirements development.

● Experience coordinating with or supporting science and technology organizations, warfighting labs, or advanced concept development efforts.

● Experience serving in an operational assessment, exercise support, warfighting analysis, or planning support role with a headquarters, service, or joint organization.

Clearance Requirements:

● Must have a current/active TS/SCI security clearance.

Physical Requirements:

● Office work environment with occasional travel to outdoor test and evaluation sites.

● Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.

● Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, meeting spaces, and collaborative work areas.