Collective Training Exercise Integrator Task Lead

This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and is restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation of citizenship or legal permanent residency to qualify.

About the role

Cherokee Strategic Edge is seeking a Collective Training Exercise Integrator (CTEI) Task Lead to support INSCOM’s Training Readiness and Exercise program. The CTEI Task Lead develops, maintains, and delivers training material to drive intelligence goals, objectives, tradecraft, and standards. Provides lesson plans, presentations, and curricula in support of educational goals and maintains materiel within assigned educational systems (e.g., AGILE, Training Development Capability (TDC)). Reviews emerging policy and doctrine publications, provides feedback, and assesses incorporation into training products. Develops and maintains training records and tracking systems as required or designated by the Government.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the designated CTEI Task Lead for assigned contract requirements and provide day-to-day leadership for assigned contractor personnel.
• Exercise tasking authority over assigned CTEI contractor personnel in alignment with the contract, Program Manager guidance, customer priorities, and applicable policy.
• Oversee, coordinate, and lead the synchronization of all CTEI assigned activities, deliverables, training events, and personnel, including reallocating work to meet mission requirements, course schedules, deliverable milestones, and emergent customer needs.
• Oversee, manage, and direct support to the development of exercises, scenarios, and mission-essential tasks across the Total Army at all echelons, ensuring all training is operationally relevant, timelines are met, standards aligned, and readiness focused to support the customer’s mission and operational needs.
• Establish clear performance expectations, communicate priorities, track workload and progress, identify resource constraints, and elevate risks or issues to the Program Manager and Government lead in a timely manner.
• Provide oversight and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-INT collection against requirements, using statistical, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques to interpret ISR data sources.
• Lead review and validation of work products, instructional materials, scenario products, reports, and deliverables before submission to ensure they meet required standards and directly support the customer’s mission and operational requirements.
• Provide routine professional counseling, mentorship, coaching, and performance feedback to assigned contractor personnel. Document performance concerns, recognize strong performance, identify development needs, and coordinate with the Program Manager on performance-management actions when necessary.
• Oversee analysis to identify gaps in collection methods, model future intelligence collection scenarios, and assess collection options, providing informed judgments and recommendations to improve multi-INT collection effectiveness.
• Lead recurring team meetings, production reviews, planning sessions, and after-action reviews. Ensure team members understand requirements, receive timely feedback, and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with collection requirements managers, analytic elements, and consumers to ensure multi-INT collection operations remain focused and efficiently employ allocated time and resources.
• Provide direction and supervision to the CTEI Team on the employment of intelligence collection systems that generate timely, relevant insights and produce analytic outputs that inform collectors and consumers of collection developments and operational relevance.
• Collaborate across the IC to understand consumer intelligence needs and gaps to optimize developing collection operations tailored to the requirements of the customer.
• Supervise and oversee CTEI’s products to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-INT collection against requirements and assess the execution of collection plans and strategies that generate reliable intelligence relevant to consumer needs.
• Assess personnel qualifications and capability to perform assigned duties and maintain continuity of operations.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, training, cross-training, and readiness validation of contractor personnel.
• Lead a professional, accountable, and mission-focused work environment that promotes collaboration, disciplined execution, ethical conduct, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of Army Military Intelligence experience.
• Minimum of twelve (12) years as an MOS 35 series.
• Proficiency in DCGS-A or DIS software applications.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of tactical Division-level and below experience in any Military Intelligence discipline.
• Exercise Observer/Controller/Trainer (OC/T) experience preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursuit of developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 401K retirement plan.
• Other possible benefits as provided (subject to change with or without notice).