We are looking for a highly experienced Project Manager/Security Forces Assistance SME to serve as the Task Order Manager to provide leadership and support to the Security Force Assistance (SFA) Training support services contract at the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE), Fort Benning, GA. The ideal candidate will hold the expertise, experience, skills, and necessary credentials to support instructional and OE support services for the Combat Advisor Training Course.
The candidate will provide leadership and support to a variety of PWS task areas that include:
- Instructional Support delivering the Combat Advisor Training Course (CATC) programs of Instruction IAW the Army validated and TRADOC TOMA-approved course document, training materials, and adult learning methodologies. Support includes updating and revising Learning products IAW TRADOC regulation 350-70 and its associated Pamphlets.
- Operational Environment (OE) Support Services include providing OE training development support that includes develop, revise and maintain learning products, scenarios, and training material to facilitate the development and understanding of the OE. Scenario and product development. Scenarios and learning products will typically focus on training at the battalion and below level.
- Emulator support includes providing emulation services that allow for the ability to train and rehearse under realistic conditions that are part of a complex environment that realistically portray a range of individuals and environment, which are typical of a specified region or location.
- Our Operational Environment Support also includes establishing and portraying the designated operational environment needed to support the scenario training objectives. This includes, but is not limited to: Scenario Planning, Scenario Development, Scenario Training, Scenario and Prop Fabrication, Training Site Set-up and Recovery, Lessons Learned, and OE Scenario Management.
Candidates working in support of this effort will also provide support to After Action Reviews, Preparing and Generating reports and other deliverable based documentation.
Required Qualifications:
- Served a minimum of 12 months as a brigade or battalion commander of an Army and/or Marine maneuver unit.
- Served a minimum of 12 months in combat as a staff officer (or commander) in a maneuver BCT (Army) or Task Force (Marine).
- Possess an in-depth and current understanding of the missions, functions and structure of the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade; (U.S. Army and Joint operational doctrine).
- Ability to capture, conduct analysis, and organize collected data to integrate training systems into existing Programs of Instruction (POIs)
- Possess an in-depth and current understanding of the Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE), relevant threat force doctrine and tactics
- Ability to build and execute DATE compliant training materials (Lesson Plans, Vignettes, scenarios, Operational Orders, Concepts and Material)
- In-depth knowledge of culture, customs, and TTPs. Using the PMESII-PT model, in order to continuously research and refine the OE roles, social networks, and equipment required for realistic training
- Verifiable experience at the senior executive level developing and delivering training, integrating operations with intelligence, and conducting or managing Government research, and shall have experience in Security Force Assistance Operations, Counterinsurgency (COIN) and Stability operations
- Two years' minimum experience in the design and development of OE scenarios
- Demonstrated experience and a working knowledge of Army/TRADOC doctrine and regulations for the development and delivery of the curriculum
- Exceptional writing skills and significant experience in briefing key leadership. Possess an in-depth and current understanding of relevant threat force doctrine and tactics
- Demonstrate OE depiction, in accordance with AR 350-2 and the FM/TC 7-100 series manuals
- Possess experience dealing with other cultures
- Demonstrate the ability to act out nonverbal cues with a high level of realism
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of automatic data processing (ADP) equipment, and standard desktop publishing software (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite), as to prepare briefing materials
- The Project Manager/Security Forces Assistance SME shall also at a minimum, possess military experience at the Brigade command level or above (MEL 1 Graduate) having attended one of the following:
- US Army War College
- Naval War College
- Air War College
- Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- National War College
- American Defense College
- War College Fellowship
- Have operational experience as a field grade officer within a Forces Command Opposing Force (FORSCOM OPFOR) unit at the National Training Center (NTC), Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), or Joint Multinational Training Command (JMTC), and have served in a combative area of operations such as Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) or Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Experience serving within a Joint Headquarters conducting Joint Interagency Intergovernmental Multinational (JIIM) planning and operations.
- Possess project/program management experience in the private sector managing Role Players at comparable levels of scope and responsibility including the ability to manage Operational Environment Player facilities for the purpose of executing, capturing, inputting, and organizing data IOT to facilitate integration of training systems into existing Program of Instruction (POI).
- Secret Security Clearance
- Experience serving within an Asymmetric Warfare Team and/or Security Forces Advise and Assist Team in a designated combative area of operation (e.g. OEF or OIF) is preferred.
