Irregular Warfare Counterterrorism Threat SME

Endurion is a mission integrator built by and for the Special Operations community, providing end-to-end solutions across intelligence, operations, and technology. Founded and led by former Special Operations Forces operators and mission experts, the organization is rooted in firsthand experience with complex operational environments and high-stakes missions. Endurion partners closely with its customers to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored, mission-focused capabilities. Team members join a culture that values adaptability, operational excellence, and innovation in support of critical national security objectives.

Endurion is looking for a qualified person to support our multi-year contract with the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) mission in support of USSOCOM to deliver recurring, interim instruction as an Independent Contractor (1099).

Employment Type: Independent Contractor (1099). Episodic courses to be taught in locations worldwide.

About the role

Endurion seeks senior practitioners and educators with expertise in irregular warfare, counterterrorism, violent extremist organizations, transnational threats, organized crime, and whole-of-government security approaches. SMEs may instruct military officers, senior NCOs, Ministry of Defense officials, security officials, and executive-level international leaders.

Supported Course Family

• Countering Extremist Organizations
• Special Operations Contemporary Threats
• Advanced Special Operations Contemporary Threats
• International Executive Contemporary Threats Seminar

Core Subject-Matter Requirements

• Irregular warfare
• Terrorism and counterterrorism
• Violent extremist organizations
• Radicalization and extremism
• Organized crime
• Criminal-insurgent-terrorist convergence
• Sociocultural analysis
• Root causes of instability and extremism
• Counter-threat finance
• High-value targeting
• Strategy formulation
• Campaigning
• Critical asset protection
• Intelligence and information sharing
• Civil-military operations
• Whole-of-government approaches
• Ungoverned spaces and border security
• Strategic appreciation
• Asymmetric warfare
• Legal considerations associated with counterterrorism
• International security cooperation
• Regional and multinational approaches to contemporary threats

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge

• Contemporary threat networks and irregular warfare
• Counterterrorism policy, strategy, and operations
• Interagency and multinational approaches to complex security challenges
• Intelligence support to CT/IW operations
• Strategic and operational campaigning

Skills

• Conducting threat and network analysis
• Facilitating senior-leader discussions
• Using historical and contemporary case studies
• Translating tactical CT experience into policy and strategy implications
• Teaching whole-of-government and multinational responses

Qualifications

Highly Desired Background

• SOF operational or planning experience
• Counterterrorism or counterinsurgency experience
• Intelligence Community background
• Joint Staff, COCOM, TSOC, SOCOM, or interagency experience
• Department of State, law enforcement, intelligence, or partner-capacity experience
• Academic or policy expertise in terrorism, irregular warfare, or transnational threats