Learning Standards Officer Liaison

About the role

Serves as a training specialist subject matter expert in U.S. Naval Special Warfare Training curriculum and is responsible for assistance in developing and/or reviewing curriculum, instruction, and training materials.

Responsibilities

• Assists in development implementation, mediation, and adaptation of course curriculum to provide the highest level of basic and advanced training in SBTC Courses.
• Assists in design and management of complete, full-length training courses, or major course units of comparable scope, along subject matter or functional specialty area lines.
• Work involves extensive planning and organization, analyses of accumulated data and information, and considerable coordination and integration of the work with other functional activities.
• Assists with designing SBTC training instructional courses and material for complete full-length courses.
• In coordination with the assigned Government representative, studies technical material and conducts field visits to determine, review and validate the scope and content of SBTC training courses.
• Assists with designing SBTC instructional components, e.g. Sequencing and clustering of learning events and objectives; task learning relationships, and instructional design plans.
• Assists with designing and implementing training and performance evaluation measures.
• Assists with developing training materials for complete, full-length SBTC training courses, or major course units of comparable scope.
• Reviews and evaluates existing training material and makes recommendations on its usefulness or need to develop new materials in compliance with the instructional design and proposes recommendations through the Chain of Command.
• Assists in preparing SBTC training materials and supporting instructor and student guides.
• Conducts continuous curriculum reviews and makes recommendations as to effectiveness of SBTC training texts, lesson plans, course material, and presentations.
• Assists with designing course evaluation instruments to provide continuous improvement to the training environment and student feedback.
• Assists with planning and conducting a wide range of training improvement and reliability studies and surveys of training course design and material.
• Assists with evaluating SBTC training curriculum for applicability, adequacy, technical accuracy, and accomplishment of training objectives.
• Reviews the quality of SBTC training courses and courseware through visits to training sites, review of evaluation questionnaires and analysis of available data.
• Organizes or participates in validation workshops consisting of functional experts to recommend critical tasks and instructional settings.
• Assists with developing comprehensive test and measurement devices for prepared course material and conducting formative evaluation to include the critical data collection points and the most appropriate data collection instruments.
• Assists with ensuring that expertise in SBTC training curriculum design/redesign, instructional delivery systems and internal evaluation techniques and applications are available at the command through an effective in-service training program.
• Conducts continuous curriculum reviews to assess effectiveness of texts, lesson plans, course material, and presentations, and initiates actions to improve specific training modules and overall curriculum.
• Informs Chain of Command on requirements and shortfalls in curriculum, training material, training support, and instructor qualifications.

Qualifications

• Eight (8) years’ experience in Curriculum Development with no Degree, or six (6) years' experience in Curriculum Development with a degree from an accredited U.S. college in either Education, Engineering, or Instructional Development.
• Six (6) years’ experience in a technical environment (technical writing, rewriting and updating curriculum) in principles and understanding of SOF-unique watercraft systems and equipment.
• Four (4) years’ experience as a USN Enlisted Qualification (NEC 805A) Instructor or another agency equivalent.
• USN Master Training Specialist (MTS) certification or another agency equivalent.
• Five (5) years’ collective experience working with/applying the following Naval Instructions: OPNAVINST 5100.19 Series, Safety Precautions for Forces Afloat; OPNAVINST 3500.39 Series, Operational Risk Management; OPNAVINST 4790.4 Maintenance and Material Management (3-M) Manual; and OPNAVINST 5530.13C Arms, Ammunition and Explosives Physical Security.
• Five (5) years’ supervisory experience.