SAIC - Virginia Beach, VA
posted 6 months ago
The Navy Business Group currently has a career opportunity for a Naval Fires training subject matter expert (SME) and analyst to provide Naval Surface Fire Support (NSFS) training using the Integrated Maritime Portable Acoustic Scoring System (IMPASS) at Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Atlantic (EWTGL) in Virginia Beach, VA. Training SMEs are highly skilled persons with knowledge gained over years of experience at senior levels. They promote greater information sharing for staffs and stakeholders. They provide realistic as well as reliable, consistent support and well-developed recommendations to various audiences in training and real-world events. They will maintain the integrity of the training objectives and maintain a knowledge base that is consistent with the requirements that cover the full spectrum of the listed Functional Area duties. SMEs serve as the catalyst for developing and evaluating requirements. They provide the expertise and insight to support programs and leaders at all levels, including very senior levels, civilian and military sectors. They are experienced subject matter experts in their fields of expertise. The ideal candidate will be a former Navy Fire Controlman or Operational Specialist with at least four years' experience as a trainer/evaluator and two years' experience with NSFS firing/scoring systems. Also, a viable candidate will have sufficient expertise and experience to provide academic support and serve as a shipboard naval fires operational trainer supporting the Fleet Response Training Plan (FRTP), including unit level academic/classroom training; Navy Mission Essential Task List (NMETL)/Navy Training Information Management System (NTIMS) development tracking and training; development, execution, and assessment of training scenarios; shipboard training team and training officer seminars; and fleet synthetic training (FST) program training at EWTGL. In addition, he/she will have excellent public speaking, presentation, and time management skills, as well as at least six years of applicable Training SME experience in conducting fleet training analyses to identify gaps, training needs, and solutions, developing and modifying training event/exercise scenarios and curricula, delivering training in person and/or online, managing training projects, and designing custom training to meet Fleet/Joint training objectives. Specific Functional Area duties include providing IMPASS support as team leader/safety observer, buoy deployers/spotters and IMPASS control unit operators; providing IMPASS deployment training for unit and strike group level naval fires training program as required in support of FRTP precertification and sustainment training; providing system performance feedback to applicable engineering and maintenance commands to ensure long-term viability of the system; supporting naval surface fires training requirements in live and synthetic exercises and events; supporting Navy fires training to units (classroom and virtual) using the 20E18B and Shipboard Embedded Trainer for synthetic Naval Fires Training; providing academic training and education in person; providing subject matter expert course of instruction (COI) for NSFS Mobile Training Teams (MTT); assisting government representative and stakeholders to maintain, update and standardize the instructor certification program and ensure instructor knowledge and presentation skills maintain credentials; developing, maintaining, and distributing instructional material supported by outlines, lesson plans, reference material, briefs, lectures, videos, scenarios, animations, handouts, student and instructor workbooks and study guides, testing materials, critiques, and feedback; providing support for curriculum review, development, and implementation for academics of warfare training requirements for NSFS; and providing detailed post-mission reports and scoring information.