Instructor/Training Specialist
About The Position
This role involves conducting and supporting various joint planning and readiness exercises. The primary responsibilities include developing and delivering training courses such as the Joint Planners Course (JPC) and the JFHQ JTF Formation Course, ensuring curriculum is up-to-date with the latest joint doctrine. Additionally, the role supports quarterly mission readiness exercises (MRX) by planning, coordinating, and executing them, which includes developing exercise design, scenarios, and injects. The position requires providing subject matter expertise, supporting collective training events, and preparing post-exercise briefings. Travel, including OCONUS, is expected for these duties.
Requirements
- Possess a master's degree from an accredited institution.
- Be a former or retired Field Grade officer (O4-O6).
- Possess at least 16 years of military service.
- Have been a Joint Qualified Officer (JQO) while in service.
- Have experience serving on a Joint, Combatant Command (CCMD), or Service-level staff at or above the Corps, Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF), or service-equivalent.
- Experience with JTF HQs is preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Graduate of an advanced planning school (e.g., Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS), School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), School of Advanced Warfighting (SAWS), School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SASS), Basic Strategic Art Program (BSAP)).
Responsibilities
- Conduct a turnkey, 10-day Joint Planners Course (JPC) focused on the Joint Planning Process (JPP) as written in Joint Publication 5-0.
- Maintain and update JPC course curriculum, instructional material, planning scenarios, and student handouts in accordance with the latest joint doctrine and after-action review outputs.
- Provide the Government with master copies of all JPC items and instruction guides.
- Coordinate all aspects of JPC course execution, including providing subject matter expertise on the Joint Planning Process (JPP).
- Plan, coordinate, and execute quarterly mission readiness exercises (MRX) to evaluate and assess the overall mission readiness of select JPSE ready forces.
- Develop and maintain MRX exercise design, storyboards, scenario products, exercise injects, life support plans, and evaluation standards.
- Support the execution of all collective training events with observers, subject matter experts, and white cell/response cell functionality.
- Provide in-progress reviews and post-exercise briefings to JPSE leadership.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of an annual JPSE exercise schedule.
- Accompany JPSE personnel on Pre-Deployment Site Surveys and planning events to ensure mission support requirements are appropriate for the scope of the exercise.
- Support JPSE internal assessments and collect lessons learned observations.
- Assist in scheduling after action reviews (AARs), drafting reports, and preparing briefings.
- Conduct a turnkey, 3-day JFHQ JTF Formation course as written in Joint Publication 3-33 "Joint Force Headquarters" to enable the rapid establishment of JTFs.
- Maintain and update all JFHQ JTF Formation course curriculum and materials based on the latest joint doctrine and after-action reviews.
- Coordinate all aspects of JFHQ JTF Formation course execution, including providing three subject matter experts as course instructors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
