Mental Performance Consultant Nf4

U.S. Marine Corps•Twentynine Palms, CA

About The Position

The Mental Performance Consultant serves Semper Fit’s Warrior Athlete Readiness and Resilience Program (WARR), supporting readiness, lethality, and resilience across the physical, mental, social, and spiritual domains of fitness. The role provides non-clinical mental performance expertise to Marines and families, helping them develop confidence, focus, resilience, and other skills that support performance and well-being in tactical, training, competitive, and daily-life settings. The consultant designs and delivers structured individual and group consultations, sessions, drills, and programs. Services may include education, assessment, biofeedback and neurofeedback, cognitive and mental performance inventories, and coaching in skills such as imagery, goal setting, concentration, anxiety and arousal control, and relaxation. The consultant attends physical training and supports land-, water-, and crossover-based training and field events at unit locations. The role documents assessments and services, coordinates referrals when appropriate, contributes promotional and educational materials, and recommends program implementation approaches to the supervisor. The position also monitors environmental risks and develops and reports organizational Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Requirements

Master’s or doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution in exercise, performance, or sport psychology.
Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) credential from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP).
At least 1 year of experience.
Valid state-issued driver’s license.
Proficiency applying a broad range of professional performance-based mental skills tools, assessments, and implementation methods to a diverse military population.
Skill working with athletes, military personnel, or first responders to develop short- and long-term or mission-specific performance programs.
Knowledge of military operational or athlete-specific lifestyles and situations that may contribute to stress, performance anxiety, self-efficacy, self-determination, performance enhancement, and injury recovery.
Ability to communicate with and educate large, varied audiences.
Experience developing, planning, and initiating programs supporting mental performance for Marines and their families.
Ability to provide professional expertise and consultation in tactical and operational performance, interpersonal enhancement strategies, mental health optimization, and service coordination.
Ability to consult with individual Marines and authorized patrons on assessments, goal setting, performance plan development and implementation, follow-up, and referrals as needed.
Understanding of mental health literacy needs of high-performing individuals, including physical and injury recovery, reconditioning, and stress management, and ability to create targeted educational written content.
Ability to review standardized course content of similar scope and complexity and recommend content for target populations as part of a working group.
Expertise coaching non-clinical performance modalities, including imagery, goal development, concentration, anxiety and arousal control, and relaxation techniques.
Proficiency administering and interpreting evidence-based cognitive assessment tools, including neurofeedback or biofeedback, athlete mindfulness questionnaires, self-regulation assessments, neuro-visual training tools, and transcranial brain stimulation.

Responsibilities

Provide non-clinical mental performance services to Marines and families to develop skills such as confidence, focus, resilience, motivation, and mental strength.
Design and deliver structured individual and group consultations, sessions, drills, and programs for units and Marines.
Provide education, assessments, practical tools, and strategies related to cognition, confidence, resilience, motor-skill development, and performance under pressure.
Teach mental imagery, goal development, concentration, anxiety and arousal control, and relaxation techniques.
Use biofeedback, neurofeedback, attentional and interpersonal style testing, and other assessments or mental performance inventories relevant to Marine and unit tasks.
Attend Marine physical training and provide services during land-, water-, and crossover-based training, including unit events in the field and at unit locations.
Document assessments, sessions, follow-ups, modalities, duration, and referrals used to improve performance outcomes.
Develop and teach non-clinical group sessions for Marines, families, staff, and other authorized users.
Work with the local marketing department to develop evidence-based digital and print promotional content, including articles, social media messages, webinars, health fair content, and infographics.
Recommend implementation approaches for a mental performance skills consultative program to the supervisor.
Monitor and control environmental risks and develop and report organizational Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance to the assigned supervisor.
Consider relevant cultural variables affecting a client's experience and use individual or group consulting or non-clinical counseling according to client needs.