Joint Training Requirements Specialist, Natiional Guard Bureau

Cortek • Arlington, VA

5d • Remote

About The Position

CORTEK is seeking Joint Training Requirements Specialists to support the National Guard Bureau's Joint Doctrine, Training and Force Development Directorate (NGB-J37). You will own a region: a group of six to sixteen state and territory Joint Force Headquarters whose joint training programs you help build, assess and improve. You will sit in their planning conferences, observe their exercises, teach their staffs the systems, and write the assessments that tell the National Guard Bureau how ready they are. This is a remote role with real travel, and you will be the National Guard Bureau's face in your region. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance
• Seven years of experience in joint training, National Guard, or joint headquarters staff assignments
• Demonstrated experience across all four phases of the Joint Training System: requirements, plans, execution, and assessment
• Experience developing or updating Joint Training Plans
• Experience instructing or facilitating small group workshops at the senior leadership level
• Experience conducting training on Department of Defense readiness and training systems, including the Defense Readiness Reporting System, the Joint Training Tool or Joint Training Information Management System, and the Joint Lessons Learned Information System
• Working knowledge of Mission Training Assessments and Training Proficiency Assessments
• Ability to obtain a Common Access Card and to work on classified systems, including SIPRNet
• Residence within the assigned region, and the ability to reach any Joint Force Headquarters in that region on short notice
• Willingness to travel approximately 25 to 35 percent within the continental United States
• Ability to work independently with limited daily supervision across multiple time zones
• United States citizenship

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent professional and military experience accepted in lieu of a degree
• Prior assignment on a Joint Force Headquarters-State J3 or J7 staff, at the National Guard Bureau, or at a combatant command J7
• Experience with the Joint Event Life Cycle as an exercise planner, exercise control group member, or exercise director
• Observer, Controller, Trainer certification from a Combat Training Center, First Army, or an equivalent program
• FEMA Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program certification
• Experience supporting domestic operations exercises such as Vigilant Guard, or Homeland Response Force and CERFP external evaluations
• Experience with the Universal Joint Task List Task Development Tool
• Familiarity with FEMA regional response frameworks and with the domestic operations threat profile of your region, such as coastal hurricanes, wildland fire, seismic events, or severe winter weather
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in military science, emergency management, education, training management, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Serve as the assigned specialist for one of five regions covering the 54 state and territory Joint Force Headquarters, maintaining continuous engagement with each headquarters in your region
• Conduct on-site support visits to Joint Force Headquarters to review training plans and readiness progress with their staffs, identify gaps in Joint Training System implementation, and build a customized training plan for each headquarters to implement and sustain all four phases of the Joint Training System
• Serve as an Observer, Controller, Trainer at exercises and training events, and deliver written training observations to the training audience within five business days
• Develop Mission Training Assessments and Training Proficiency Assessments, and support Joint Mission Essential Task List development
• Update and complete Joint Training Plans, develop training objectives, and help states enter and maintain their data in the joint training database of record and the Defense Readiness Reporting System
• Support the Joint Event Life Cycle across your region: concept development, initial, mid and final planning meetings, master scenario events list scripting, exercise plan development, and entering planning milestones into the joint training database of record within five business days of each conference
• Teach training workshops for Joint Force Headquarters staffs on the Joint Training System, the joint training database of record in both classified and unclassified environments, the Defense Readiness Reporting System, mission essential task list development, and the Joint Event Life Cycle
• Support subordinate organizations, including Homeland Response Forces, CBRN Enhanced Response Force Packages, and Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, in building their mission essential task lists
• Write executive summaries within three business days and detailed trip reports within five business days of every event, visit, exercise and planning conference
• Capture lessons learned from state exercises and events and route them to the National Guard Bureau Joint Doctrine and Joint Lessons Learned Branch
• Deliver customer surveys after each in-person visit and feed regional metrics into the monthly program report

Benefits

• Government-approved telework arrangement
• Government provides the laptop and classified network token
• All travel is authorized in advance and reimbursed in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulation and published Government per diem rates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior