Special Operations Policy and Oversight Council (SOPOC) Executive Secretary Support

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Arlington, VA Until 8/22/2026 7+ years exp First posted June 6, 2026 Last posted June 6, 2026
Job description

What you'll do

  • Serves as the primary point of contact for the Special Operations Policy and Oversight Council (SOPOC), managing all administrative, planning, and logistical functions.
  • Coordinates with senior leaders from across the SOF enterprise and interagency partners to schedule meetings, set agendas, and deconflict topics.
  • Prepares and distribute all pre-meeting materials, including read-aheads, strategic analyses, and draft policy documents, ensuring timely delivery to council members.
  • Attends all SOPOC meetings to capture detailed minutes, record key decisions, and track all assigned action items to completion.
  • Drafts and circulate post-meeting executive summaries and formal minutes for review and final approval.


Qualifications

Required Skills / Minimum Qualifications:

  • Clearance:  Must possess an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • Must be able to report to work at least 4 days per week at the Pentagon.
  • Education:  Bachelor's degree in National Security, International Affairs, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
  • Experience:  Minimum of 7 years of experience in strategic planning, policy analysis, or supporting senior-level councils or committees within the DoW or interagency.
  • Process Knowledge:  Demonstrated understanding of the senior-level decision-making processes and the coordination of complex policy and strategic topics for executive review.

 

Preferred Skills and Relevant Experience:

  • Education: Master's degree.
  • Strategic Synthesis:  Ability to synthesize complex information from diverse sources, analyze policy implications, and prepare concise, high-impact briefing materials and read-aheads for senior leaders.
  • Stakeholder Management:  Superior interpersonal and diplomatic skills, with a proven ability to coordinate and deconflict equities among senior stakeholders from across the SOF enterprise and the interagency.
  • Communication:  Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with extensive experience in drafting executive summaries, talking points, and official meeting minutes.
  • SOF Enterprise Knowledge:  Broad familiarity with the roles, missions, and organizational structure of the various components within the Special Operations enterprise.

Our team provides superior services, solutions and subject matter expertise to solve our customer's most challenging requirements in cyber, land, air, sea and space.  We believe in empowering our employees to deliver exceptional results across our federal, state and private sector clients.  We are values-led and mission driven.  We can't wait to work with you!

About this role

Summary

Manage administrative functions, coordinate senior meetings, prepare policy materials, and record key decisions.

Job title

Special Operations Policy and Oversight Council (SOPOC) Executive Secretary Support

Experience level

7+ years

Minimum experience

7+ years exp

Industry

defense

Location requirements

Arlington, VA; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

security clearancepolicy analysisstrategic planningcommunicationsstakeholder management

Preferred skills

master's degreepolicy synthesisdiplomacySOF enterprise knowledge

Specializations

policy analysisstrategic planningstakeholder managementexecutive summaries
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Arlington, VA, USA

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