Bridgeport, Ca - Mental Performance Consultant Nf4

U.S. Marine Corps•Bridgeport, 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 expertise to Marines, families, and other authorized users, helping them build mental skills such as confidence, focus, and resilience for performance in tactical, training, operational, and daily-life settings. The consultant delivers individual and group consultations, education, assessments, and practical tools; designs and implements mental and cognitive skills programs; and supports unit training activities in the field and at unit locations. Services include strategies for performance under pressure, resilience, emotional awareness, motor-skill development, and recovery. The position uses methods such as biofeedback and neurofeedback, administers relevant assessments and inventories, documents services and follow-ups, and makes referrals when appropriate. This is non-clinical work and is not healthcare or treatment.

Requirements

Valid state-issued driver's license.
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 Sports Psychology (AASP).
At least 1 year of experience.
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 can contribute to stress, performance anxiety, self-efficacy, self-determination, performance enhancement, and injury recovery.
Ability to communicate with and educate large groups with 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, mental health optimization, and service coordination.
Ability to consult with individual Marines and authorized patrons about assessments, goal setting, performance plans, implementation, follow-up, and referrals.
Understanding of mental health literacy needs of high-performing individuals, particularly physical and injury recovery, reconditioning, and stress management, and ability to create targeted written educational content.
Ability to review standardized course content of similar scope and complexity and recommend content for target populations.
Expertise guiding and coaching non-clinical performance mental-health modalities, including mental 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

Apply sport and mental performance coaching principles to support Marines’ health, wellness, and performance in tactical and training environments.
Provide structured individual and group mental performance consultations and sessions.
Design and implement mental and cognitive skills, drills, and programs for units and Marines.
Teach and coach mental imagery, goal development, concentration, anxiety and arousal control, and relaxation techniques.
Provide education, assessments, and practical tools related to cognition, perceptions, confidence, resilience, and motor-skill development.
Help Marines develop strategies to improve performance and cognition under pressure, build resilience, and understand the role of emotion in performance and action.
Consider relevant cultural variables affecting a client’s experience and tailor individual or group consulting to client needs.
Use biofeedback and neurofeedback for performance enhancement and administer relevant attentional, interpersonal-style, and other mental-performance assessments or inventories.
Attend and participate in Marine physical training and provide services during land-, water-, or crossover-based training and field or onsite unit events.
Document assessments, sessions, follow-ups, prescribed modalities, duration, and referrals.
Develop and teach non-clinical group sessions for Marines, families, staff, and other authorized users.
Support program awareness and coordination related to tactical and operational performance, interpersonal development, mental health optimization, and resilience.
Consult with Marines and authorized patrons on assessments, goal setting, performance-plan development and implementation, and follow-up or referral as needed.
Review standardized course content of similar scope and complexity and recommend content for target populations as part of a working group.
Create targeted written educational content to strengthen mental performance skills and support physical or injury recovery, reconditioning, and stress management.