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The Role
Provides strategic cyber policy and operational planning advice to partner-nation defense stakeholders supporting USEUCOM. Responsibilities include translating defense guidance into cyber missions, CONOPS, DCO plans, capability priorities, and institutional actions; integrating defensive cyber operations across all-domain missions; assessing dependencies and risks; advising on command relationships and incident response; and facilitating planning workshops and exercises.
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Opportunity (Part-Time): Cyber Strategy and Policy Advisor – Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Bottom Line Up Front: Hoplite Group is seeking an experienced Cyber Strategy and Policy Advisor to support a U.S. Government advising effort focused on the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) Area of Responsibility. The advisor will help partner-nation defense stakeholders align cyber strategy and policy with operational missions, defensive cyberspace planning, and institutional capability priorities.
Location: Remote support (CONUS) and forward engagements (OCONUS) as part of a U.S. Government advising
effort.
Level of Effort:
Objective: Strengthen partner nation's ability to translate defense strategy into operationally relevant cyber missions and plans, integrate defensive cyber operations (DCO) into all-domain operations, and develop the institutions needed to generate and sustain those capabilities. Assist partner nation in drafting cyber policy and doctrine.
Advisor Responsibilities:
Bottom Line Up Front: Hoplite Group is seeking an experienced Cyber Strategy and Policy Advisor to support a U.S. Government advising effort focused on the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) Area of Responsibility. The advisor will help partner-nation defense stakeholders align cyber strategy and policy with operational missions, defensive cyberspace planning, and institutional capability priorities.
Location: Remote support (CONUS) and forward engagements (OCONUS) as part of a U.S. Government advising
effort.
Level of Effort:
- Non-Travel months: Approximately 20-30 hours of remote monthly support
- OCONUS Engagement months: Approximately 80–100 hours/month
- Travel: Anticipate quarterly OCONUS engagements, Initial travel anticipated January 2027
Objective: Strengthen partner nation's ability to translate defense strategy into operationally relevant cyber missions and plans, integrate defensive cyber operations (DCO) into all-domain operations, and develop the institutions needed to generate and sustain those capabilities. Assist partner nation in drafting cyber policy and doctrine.
Advisor Responsibilities:
- The advisor will assess cyber strategies, policies, missions, and planning processes with partner nation counterparts; identify strengths, gaps, dependencies, and advising priorities.
- Translate national and defense strategic guidance into cyber objectives, missions, operational concepts, planning assumptions, and capability requirements.
- Develop or refine concepts of operations (CONOPS), DCO plans and annexes, staff procedures, and planning tools supporting assigned defense missions.
- Integrate defensive cyber into land, air, maritime, space, and cyberspace planning, including mission analysis, course-of-action development, synchronization, and assessment.
- Analyze cyber dependencies affecting command and control, situational awareness, maneuver, fires, and sustainment; identify protection priorities and options for continued operations under degraded conditions.
- Advise on command and support relationships, reporting, escalation, information sharing, and incident-response coordination; align defensive preparation, response, recovery, and reconstitution with commander priorities.
- Design and facilitate planning workshops and tabletop exercises; document mission risks, planning gaps, decisions, and actionable recommendations.
- Prepare planning products, capability-gap inputs, engagement materials, and assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) inputs. Work with the senior advisor to connect findings to institutional actions and implementation priorities.
- 7+ years of relevant defense experience, including military cyberspace strategy development and operational planning.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic guidance into cyber missions, CONOPS, operational plans, and capability priorities.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of relevant defense experience, including military cyberspace strategy development and operational planning
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic guidance into cyber missions, CONOPS, operational plans, and capability priorities
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Hoplite Group was created by a team of senior executives with extensive public sector and highly relevant commercial experience in economic development in frontier markets. Our team is unique in that it feels equally at home in the field or in the boardroom. We create sustainable and innovative solutions to complex problems and in the most challenging environments and harshest conditions.
