Military Analyst III

Valiant Integrated Services•Lewis-McChord, WA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Valiant is looking for a Military Analyst III to join our team! This full-time position involves comprehensive management of training resources, including personnel, equipment, and facilities, while ensuring the MTC meets customer training objectives. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise to maintain strong communication and collaboration with military customers, government officials, and contract staff, working closely with department leads, government leadership, and the contract Program Manager to ensure successful program execution.

Requirements

Active Secret security clearance.
15+ years of experience with military operations, training, training support at Brigade or higher.
Experience as Battalion Commander/Brigade Commander, S3, SGM or WO4/5.
Experience with gaming and constructive simulation programs.
Direct knowledge of Mission Command Warfighting Functions, Decisive Action Training Environment, Military Decision-Making Process, Lethal and Non-Lethal Targeting, Long Range plan development (Campaign Planning), and other supporting operational planning functions.
Excellent organizational, research, writing, and communication skills.
Position requires close customer contact and the ability to work independently and creatively.
Successful candidates must exhibit the ability to effectively communicate with clients, colleagues, and senior government officials.
Must be proficient in the following computer applications: Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Visio, Onebrief and Outlook.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution preferred.
Completed the Army Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC), Intermediate Level Education (ILE), SGM Academy or equivalent level military schooling desired.
Corps and Division staff experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Planning Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the execution of all MTC exercises for brigade and below units.
Performs as the project manager for coordination between the training unit, Mission Training Complex contractor and government staff and any other external agencies required to meet the Commander’s training objectives.
Supervises the planning, preparation, execution and recovery requirements of most complex multi-echelon events.
As an event support lead, supervises and coordinates a contractor staff up to 30 personnel of varied disciplines to deliver training support to assigned events.
Understands mission command, leader and staff training, development of training objectives, use of simulations and scenario products to meet training objectives, and staff battle drills.
Plans and coordinates events using the Live, Virtual, Constructive training environments. These include WARSIM, JCATS, LOTS, DXTRS, VBS3, JDLM, TCC, HITS and others.
Operates and provides operator training on the following constructive simulations: WARSIM, JCATS, LOTS, DXTRS, JDLM and any other emerging government directed simulations. Provides simulation help desk operations as needed for BAB and EAB events.
Develops Simulation Control Plans (SCP) and implements simulation workstation layouts to support exercises.
Configures and tests various simulations with Event Database.
Prepares and presents briefings and demonstrations on computer simulation models and exercise related issues.
Performs exercise control (EXCON) operations. This includes Higher, Adjacent and Lower response cells. Provides OPFOR support in accordance with the TRADOC G2 Operational Environment Enterprise center, D.A.T.E., and threat tactics.
Performs higher command (HICOM) functions as needed to support training events.
Devises training event recovery plans for mission command and simulation workstations (e.g. property accountability, securing classified, venue reset).
Maintains exercise status and coordination on the MTC SharePoint portal and MS Teams.
Provides instruction and coaching to brigade and battalion commanders and staff personnel on the operational employment and TTPs of the following Mission Command Information Systems: Maven, AIDP, MMC-S, AFATDS, and other tactical mission command server software like SharePoint. Possible future mission command systems to instruct and coach include TAIS and AMDWS.
As needed conducts individual Mission Command Information System instruction as part of the mission command integration course.
As needed performs database development and modification using SGEN, JTDS, or other government required system.
Creates AAR Plans for the training audience, outlining data collection, analysis parameters, presentations, and final AAR report.