Joint SOF Trainer (Operations & Planning) III

Athenix Special Missions; Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (NC); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Athenix Special Missions Group seeks a Joint SOF Trainer (Operations & Planning) to join the Camp Lejeune team. You will help plan and execute the MARSOC Joint National Training Capability certified exercise, coordinating with intelligence, operations, and logistics specialists to script scenarios and manage training events.

Responsibilities include developing training materials based on adult learning principles, maintaining currency in SOF doctrine, and coordinating with USSOCOM HQ and allied

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of SOF experience
• Associate's degree with 13 years of SOF experience
• E7-E8, CW3-CW4, O4-O5 with 13 years of SOF experience
• Minimum 8 years of special operations experience
• Excellent presentation, communication and organization skills
• Proven classroom delivery experience

Aufgaben

• Maintain currency and awareness of SOF and Joint Enterprise training requirements.
• Prepare training methods and materials based on Adult Learning principles for SOF core activities.
• Coordinate with USSOCOM HQ and planners to synchronize exercise design and execution.
• Create/review events concepts, orders and training products to support exercises.
• Support exercise design, scenario scripting, and staff role playing.
• Utilize ADDIE model to design and deliver training and evaluate effectiveness.

Kenntnisse

Presentation

Communication

Organization

Classroom Delivery

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree + 8 years SOF

Associate's degree + 13 years SOF

E7-E8 / CW3-CW4 / O4-O5 with 13 years SOF

SOF/JSOC experience

Jobbeschreibung

Description

Job Summary

Athenix Special Missions Group is seeking to hire a Joint SOF Trainer to work at Camp Lejeune. Components of USSOCOM have the responsibility to execute large-scale training exercises designed to enhance readiness and prepare SOF units for deployment. The Joint SOF Trainer (Operations & Planning) is part of a MARSOC RAVEN exercise planning team charged with planning and executing the MARSOC Joint National Training Capability certified event. Team members include specialists in intelligence, operations, and logistics who coordinate resources, develop tactical scenarios, script injects, and assist with the execution of the exercise.

Duties & Responsibilities

· Maintain functional currency and relevancy and awareness of SOF and Joint Enterprise training requirements through constant research of past and current operations, Presidential Policy Directives, DoD Instructions, Manuals, Guides, and Directives; Joint Exercise Instructions, Manuals, Guides, Directives, and Courses; campaign plans, Concept Plans (CONPLAN), Operation Plans (OPLAN), execute orders (EXORD), Joint, Service, and SOF doctrine, Joint Knowledge Online (JKO) products, professional journals and publications; attendance at JCT professional development activities (contractors assigned to JCT); attendance at the JCT Exercise Design Seminar (EDS) and Trainer Seminar (TS), Joint Special Operations, and other Department of Defense or Service/SOF Courses (when approved by the government); coordination and attendance in key USSOCOM HQ Joint Directorates (J-DIRS) battle rhythm (BR) events); participation in USSOCOM, Service, or Joint Staff (JS) Working Groups; attendance at professional conferences; and/or monitoring the Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS) / Joint Training Tool, Defense Readiness Reporting System-Strategic (DRRS), Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS), USSOCOM Lessons Learned System (SOFLIS), Special Operations Debrief and Retrieval System (SODARS)

· Prepare appropriate training methods and materials based on Adult Learning and Training principles that train Battle Staffs on the 12 SOF core activities and 18 SOF joint HQs tasks at the operational and strategic levels in functional areas that include: command and control, computers, communications, information systems (C4I); operations, plans, intelligence, fires, sustainment, communications, information and knowledge management, information operations, cyber, civil affairs, interagency, and partner nation coordination

· Maintain functional and cooperative relationships with operational and strategic level planners and leaders in the USSOCOM HQs, GCC's, TSOC's, the Joint Staff, and JSOC, to facilitate a synchronized effort in exercise design and execution across the community of interest

· Coordinate with Joint SOF Trainer Functional Lead to maintain current functional and SOF and joint training products on the Joint Online Information Center (JOIC)

· Support exercise design, JELC planning, scenario scripting, key staff role playing, training, and observations

· Utilize the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) model in executing the Joint Training System / Joint Training Tool to determine exercise and training requirements, design and develop appropriate training materials and scripting for in-person and online delivery, deliver in-person and online training using adult training principles, observe and evaluate training effectiveness and efficiency

· Create or review/critique events concepts, to include purpose, objectives, broad scenario characteristics, processes, and products to support the mission and objectives of the event’s sponsor; use real-world events and operational planning concepts

· Create/Replicate international/national/strategic and operational level products and orders to support Theater SOF/CT/CWMD exercises for a multinational training audience, within Foreign Disclosure (FDO) and DOS export compliance guidelines

· Provide counter-terrorism exercise design and coordination expertise, advisory and co-planner technical assistance tailored during ELLIPSE exercise design phase

· Incorporate Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) tasks and exercise training objectives into the observation plan to ensure all exercise milestones and objectives are observed

· When required, support the Joint Exercise Control Group (JECG) and augment and replicate key HQs staff positions for SOF Higher HQs (C/JFSOCC, C/SOJTF, C/JSOTF, C/JSOAC, SOTF)

Requirements

Experience and Education

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years experience in SOF, or Associate's degree with 13 years experience working in SOF, or (E7-E8, CW3-CW4, O4-O5,) with 13 years experience working in SOF
• Minimum 8 years of special operations experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with the Joint Training System (joint exercise planning management)
• Minimum of 4 years’ recent experience serving in a SOF tactical or operational level headquarters (SOJTF or JSOTF)
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience developing SOF tactical-operational level products to support GCC, TSOC/JSOC, and SOF Component SOF and CT exercises
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience directly interfacing with senior staff (O5/O6 and GOFO) at the TSOCs, Components, GCCs, Services, Interagency
• Excellent presentation, communication and organization skills; proven skills in formal classroom delivery
• Preferred 2 years’ experience as a platform instructor in a Professional Military Education/training environment

Athenix Special Missions Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity or gender expression), age, mental or physical disability, creed, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic trait or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.