Overview:
Bowhead seeks a Training Specialist to support the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC), Space and Missile Defense (SDM) Center of Excellence (SMDCoE) also known as the US SMD School.
SMD School (SMDS) core functions include: 1) Educate, train, and develop leaders for Space and Missile Defense operations; 2) Develop Army Doctrine for Space, High Altitude, and Global Missile Defense; 3) Develop individual and collective training tasks for Space and Missile Defense operations; 4) Train and educate the Army at large in Space and Missile Defense; and 5) Execute the US Army’s Quality Assurance Program to ensure standards are met in the education, training, and leadership development of Soldiers and Civilians.
This position will provide support to the Space Operations Training Division (SOTD) for the Army Space Control Planners Course (ASCP).
Responsibilities:
- Provide subject matter expertise and knowledge of space capabilities and support to Army operations.
- Conduct space superiority training and education on conducting deployment planning, operational planning, and command and control operations; integrating mission operations within an Air Operations Center (AOC); familiarization with joint / service Space Operations Centers supporting operations; and assessing effects, mission areas, and intelligence support to operations.
- Conduct training to prepare Space Control Planners to integrate Space Control capabilities into joint operations and synchronize non-kinetic effects through the Space Domain for a Joint Force Commander.
- Analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate, and maintain education and training in accordance with TR 350-70 series and Army accreditation standards
- Conduct research on new threats to current Army space-enabled capabilities, update existing training materials as necessary, and develop new training materials after analyzing the results of the research. Research shall include coordination with other SMDS training divisions to ensure training materials updated or developed are current, accurate, and aligned with Army School institutional training materials.
- Travel to conduct training as required.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of space related military experience.
- Understanding of Joint Space Mission Areas with an emphasis on SATCOM and/or Offensive Space Operations.
- Experience applying Space Control planning principles to employ non-kinetic effects synchronized for a JFC into Army and Joint operations.
- Experience utilizing the targeting cycle, above Army Division-level, to integrate and synchronize non-kinetic effects with other joint functions during the Joint Planning Process (JPP).
- Understanding of the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) on SATCOM and how to correlate this to potential sources causing EMI.
- Experience with AOC processes and joint targeting cycles.
- Experience and understanding of joint/coalition military operations ranging from operational to strategic levels.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Previous instructor-facilitator experience.
- Ability to brief higher ranking officials.
- Understand military planning processes (MDMP, JPP, etc.).
- Ability to articulate space to non-space personnel.
- Knowledge and understanding of the ADDIE model.
- Travel to conduct training as required.
Desired Knowledge/Skills
- MOSQ: FA40, Space 200, ASCBC, Space Operations Course, Army Space Control Planners Course, or other relevant space courses.
- Joint or Army Targeting School graduate (Joint Targeting Staff Course, Joint Targeting Weaponeering Applications Course, Combat Assessment Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, Joint Intermediate Targeting Development Certification).
- Graduate of a military instructor training course (CFD-IC, ITC/SGITC, FIFC, ABIC, AFBIC, etc.).
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Must currently hold a security clearance at the Secret or Top Secret/SCI level. US Citizenship is a requirement at this location.
Physical Demands:
- Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
- Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
- Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically
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