HST Fires SME

Valiant Integrated Services•Remote,

About The Position

Valiant is hiring a Higher Command Support Team Fires Subject Matter Expert to support the ARNG Mission Command Training Support Program (MCTSP). This full-time, exempt salaried position teaches, coaches, trains, and mentors ARNG Division and Brigade commanders and staff counterparts on Mission Command and the doctrinal foundations of fires in Large-Scale Combat Operations, including Multi-Domain Operations and the Decisive Action Training Environment. The role may support work originating from any or all Mission Training Center locations. The SME replicates the Fires Warfighting Function and serves as the Higher Command Fires staff principal during the Military Decision Making Process, staff exercises, and field training or command post exercises, as well as between events alongside other senior Warfighting Function SMEs. The role supports exercise planning and execution, training and instructional activities, scenario and exercise product development, simulation coordination, battle-rhythm events, and after-action reviews. Duties also include preparing and delivering Fires products and Air Tasking Orders using analog formats and Mission Command Information Systems, role-playing notional higher and adjacent units, and undertaking special projects as assigned.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance.
Master of Science or Master of Arts degree; subject immaterial.
At least 20 years of experience in the Army, Army Reserve, or Army National Guard.
At least 2 years of experience with exercise planning using the Joint Exercise Life Cycle process.
Senior Army or ARNG Field Artillery leadership experience in training management, Combat Training Center, and operational or combat experience is identified as preferred in the posting.
Successful service as a Brigade staff principal in the specific Fires Warfighting Function represented.
Successful command at the MTOE Battalion level within the respective Warfighting Function.
Experience in large-scale live and constructive exercises; doctrinal expertise in the Fires Warfighting Function; and familiarity with Army Command and Control Information Systems.
Excellent oral and written communication and problem-solving skills.
Position requires occasional travel as needed.
Physical requirements may include lifting, ascending and descending stairs, climbing, and extended sitting or standing, to varying degrees.

Nice To Haves

Graduate of a military Senior Service College.
Senior Army or ARNG Field Artillery leadership experience in training management, Combat Training Center, and operational or combat experience.
Division or Corps staff principal experience in the Fires Warfighting Function.
Brigade-level command experience within the respective Warfighting Function.

Responsibilities

Replicate the Fires Warfighting Function and serve as the Higher Command Fires staff principal during the Military Decision Making Process, staff exercises, field training exercises, command post exercises, and intervening periods, coordinating with other senior Warfighting Function SMEs.
Support pre-exercise staff exercises and academic or instructional opportunities covering Operational Design, the Operations Process, Multi-Domain Operations, the Military Decision Making Process, Command Post Operations, command post personnel roles and duties, and other Fires Warfighting Function topics aligned with commanders’ training objectives.
Prepare units to conduct command and control processes and synchronize Fires Warfighting Function requirements and capabilities with the commander’s intent.
Attend planning conferences and recommend Mission Essential Task List-derived training objectives and an overarching training concept.
Develop Fires Warfighting Function inputs to the road-to-war scenario and support its overall development, including higher headquarters TACSOPS, PSOPS, and KM SOPS; warning orders; operations orders; and fragmentary orders, within established timelines.
Coordinate with Officer Senior Trainers, Enlisted Senior Trainers, and Simulation Support Teams to accurately replicate opposing forces, the training audience, and notional echelons above Brigade or Division, higher, and adjacent units.
Support establishment of a tactical battle rhythm from the Fires Warfighting Function perspective, including key Higher Command meetings, boards, and working groups such as Battlefield Update Briefings, Commander’s Update Briefings, Targeting Meetings, Information Collection Synchronization Meetings, Sustainment Boards, and Protection Boards.
Synchronize, prepare, and deliver daily Air Tasking Orders; analyze and distribute Fires Warfighting Function products and injects supporting Operational Summaries, Intelligence Summaries, Operations Plans, operations orders, warning orders, and fragmentary orders.
Prepare and issue Joint Exercise Life Cycle products in analog format and digitally through appropriate Mission Command Information Systems, including CPCE, CPOF, DCGS-A, AFATDS, TAIS, AMDWS, and JCR.
Prepare Fires Warfighting Function inputs to and support development of a Master Scenario Events List for non-simulation-supported training objectives requiring manual injects.
Prepare Joint Exercise Life Cycle products that support realistic, immersive Multi-Domain Operational Environment replication and doctrinally precise, demanding, high-tempo Unified Land Operations exercises.
Role-play notional higher and adjacent units throughout exercises.
Prepare and submit input to, and participate in, informal and formal exercise After Action Reviews.
Serve as a special project officer on MCTSP initiatives at the discretion of the HST Team Lead or at the direction of MCTSP.
Perform other duties as assigned.