Joint SOF Trainer (Operations & Planning) IV

Athenix Solutions Group•Virginia Beach, VA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Athenix Special Missions is seeking a Joint SOF Trainer (Operations & Planning) IV in Virginia Beach, VA! ASM Quality Policy: To meet or exceed our customers’ expectations for quality, delivery, and service through continual improvement, striving to meet our objectives, and committing to meeting all legal and statutory requirements The SOF Response Cell (SRC) provides Service JNTC accredited exercises and select GCC joint exercise program (JEP) exercises with operational to strategic level SOF (Air, Ground, Maritime, Intelligence) SME to facilitate SOF-CF I3 exercise planning and execution. Personnel augment/replicate critical staff planning positions and provide SOF exercise planning and execution products throughout the exercise JELC IAW Service, GCC, and SOF training objectives. SRC's MSEL injects and storylines provide CF training audiences with relevant and current SOF operational trends that accurately address and extend SOF/CF I3. SRC replicates SOF Higher HQs capabilities at the operational level allowing SOF and CF to simultaneously train on prosecuting complex missions within a Full Spectrum Operations environment where SOF/CF conduct operations in increasingly complex environments that require synchronization, coordination, and integration of multiple agencies.

Requirements

Must be a U.S citizen
Security Clearance: TS-SCI
Bachelor’s degree with 10 years experience in SOF, or Associate’s degree with 15 years experience working in SOF, or prior (E8-E9, CW4-CW5, O4-O6) with 15 years experience working in SOF
Minimum 10 years of operational-strategic special operations experience
Minimum of 4 years of recent experience serving in a command, senior enlisted advisor, or primary staff billet in a SOF (USSOCOM/TSOC), Service, Joint Staff, OSD, or 3-4 Star level Service/GCC HQs within the past 8 years
Minimum of 5 years’ experience with the Joint Training System (joint exercise planning management)
Minimum of 4 years of experience in joint operations and operational-strategic level SOF planning and operations
Minimum of 4 years’ experience in the Adaptive Planning and Execution System (APEX) and Joint Operational Planning Process (JOPP)
Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Operational Design preferred
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

Nice To Haves

Preferred 2 years’ experience as a platform instructor in a Professional Military Education/training environment

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), Fragmentary orders (FRAGO), 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 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)