Performance Integration Trainer - Fort Bragg, NC

F3EA, Inc. is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), established in 2013, and dedicated to delivering high quality training and management service solutions to U.S. Government customers primarily within the Special Operations and Intelligence communit ...

Job description

F3EA, Inc. is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), established in 2013, and dedicated to delivering high quality training and management service solutions to U.S. Government customers primarily within the Special Operations and Intelligence communities. As a provider of mission support, security, and training services; F3EA's core competency resides in providing full-spectrum support, development, and execution of interagency Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercises (EDREs) and Joint Full Mission Profile (FMP) exercises to enhance performance and improve operational capabilities both domestically and overseas. F3EA's respected position in the USSOCOM community is built on realistic, demanding, and cutting-edge exercise delivery with the expertise and experience to meet and exceed the performance requirements identified to support Joint Forces Commanders.

F3EA, Inc. offers a complete benefit package for all full-time positions to include health, dental, and vision plan options, life insurance for employees, spouse and children, short-term disability, long-term disability, Paid Time Offer, Paid Sick Leave, paid holidays, 401k, etc.

**This position is contingent pending award**

Job Summary

Delivers interpersonal performance education that strengthens ARSOF Soldiers' effectiveness in complex and high-stress environments. This role instructs Soldiers and leaders on engagement and negotiation techniques and their application to mission tasks, while building skills in adaptive thinking, emotional intelligence, communication, and cross-cultural awareness. The trainer also develops targeted programs and provides performance consulting to help personnel maintain composure, solve problems creatively, and excel mentally, physically, and interpersonally in demanding operational settings.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop and provide education and training instructions relating to the Interpersonal Domain and Solider performance centering on four primary areas: Adaptability, Emotional Intelligence, Communication (verbal and non-verbal), and Negotiations as all four relate to human engagements and Army related skills.
• Instruct and provide education and training in negotiation and mediation techniques to include aspects of negotiations in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational environment.
• Oversee, develop and provide instruction in Interpersonal Domain education and training to enhance ARSOF Soldiers and DACs ability to: think and solve problems in unconventional ways; maintain composure while responding to or adjusting one's own thinking and actions to fit a changing environment; recognize, understand, and navigate within multiple social networks; and proactively shape the environment or circumstances in anticipation of desired outcomes.
• Be able to use simulation technology and biofeedback in accordance with established guidelines to demonstrate operational performance enhancement principles and to personalize the acquisition and application of interpersonal skills techniques. This will include the use of a current synthetic training environment (STE) capabilities and future semi-immersive and virtual immersive capabilities training capabilities including AR, VR, and MR technologies. Coaches will work with Soldiers during individual and collective marksmanship training with simulated and real weapons (configured for use in the STE; no live ammunition) on the application of human performance (HP) skills and serve as SMEs in using wearable biometric sensors, and other technology to determine HP training impacts through Measure of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs).
• Train Soldiers and Leaders on the acquisition of engagement and negotiations techniques and their application to individual military tasks and unit operations to include field operations.
• Instruct, train, and coach in engagement and negotiation techniques, conflict styles, adaptive thinking, conflict resolution, and mediation.
• Perform instruction, training, and education in field environments and under seasonal and adverse weather conditions.
• Perform instruction, training, and education in field environments requiring movement/transportation via watercraft, aircraft, and/or ground vehicular means.
• Collaborate with multi-service, joint, federal, and/or designated organizations to develop, advise, share, research, and implement best practices of interpersonal performance theory into practical application.
• Assist and provide input to presentations/briefings that inform leaders and decision makers.
• Comply with company standard operating policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Required Qualifications and Education

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience with SOF and minimum three (3) OCONUS deployments with SOF.
• Served in leadership positions as a Commissioned Officer (O3 or above), Chief Warrant Officer (CW2 or above), Senior Non-commissioned Officer (E-8 or above) in Civil Affairs, Special Forces of Psychological Operations units. Graduate of Intermediate Level Education (ILE), Warrant Officer ILE, or Sargeant Major Academy.
• Minimum three (3) years' experience as an instructor with Army Special Operations forces (ARSOF) with groups of up to 100 individuals.

Preferred Qualifications and Education

• Master's degree in sport psychology or sub-disciplines of intervention/performance enhancement, health/exercise psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling, an/or social psychology.
• Member of a Sport Psychology (or related) Professional Organization (i.e. Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), ADP Division 47, North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) or the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB)).
• Military Instructor certification

Work authorization/security clearance requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Periodically work in a field or range training environment to observe ARSOF training and provide human performance training in an operational setting. FTE may be exposed to a variety of weather conditions and extreme temperatures ranging from the upper 120s degrees Fahrenheit in the daytime to single digit degrees Fahrenheit at night. It is the Contractors responsibility to ensure that all its personnel have been briefed and prepared to operate in weather conditions such as hot, cold or wet weather and come with the appropriate clothing and equipment for operating under such conditions.
• Able to conduct movements by land, sea, or air via Military/Commercial fixed or rotary wing aircraft, waterborne craft, or ground transport in support of unit training in assigned core supporting tasks.
• Able to walk cross-country (uneven, rocky, sandy, and water obstacles up to waist high) in all weather conditions during day, night, and low visibility periods. Able to operate outside of a normal office environment where restrooms and wash facilities are not available.
• Able to carry a backpack (up to 20 pounds) cross-country while observing cadre and Soldiers.
• Able to be transported in government provided ground vehicles and/or military aviation.
• Travel: 0-15%

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

F3EA, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. F3EA, Inc. makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.