Special Operations Medical Advisor
Job Number: R0250778
About the role
As a defense mission professional, you ask questions others don’t. You understand the nuances of complex situations. You use your skills to think bigger and push further, solving complex problems. We’re looking for an expert like you to create solutions for missions that keep our nation safe. As an Exercise Planner, you will bring your special operations medicine, tactical medicine, and operational experience to support complex expeditionary training and readiness requirements. You will use your expertise to plan, develop, coordinate, execute, and assess realistic tactical medical scenarios and provide observations and recommendations that strengthen medical readiness and interoperability. You will support pre-deployment training and certification exercises by evaluating tactical medical performance in austere environments, supporting medical and emergency evacuation planning for high-risk training, and advising on advanced point-of-injury care, prolonged casualty care, and casualty evacuation. You will apply advanced consulting skills and technical expertise to assess medical capabilities, support post-exercise analysis, refine training practices and procedures, and coordinate with operational staff, medical professionals, instructors, evaluators, and other stakeholders. Your role will also include supporting the integration of operational medical guidance into expeditionary training and participating in working groups, curriculum reviews, exercise assessments, and other activities that improve tactical medical training and readiness.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in special operations medicine, operational medicine, tactical medicine, or a military medical field providing advanced tactical trauma care, operational medicine, prolonged casualty care or prolonged field care, and casualty management in austere operational environments
- Experience completing at least one full deployment cycle with an Amphibious Ready Group or Marine Expeditionary Unit in a medical capacity supporting a Maritime Raid Force, reconnaissance element, or Command Element
- Experience with advanced tactical trauma care, operational medicine, prolonged casualty care or prolonged field care, and casualty management in austere operational environments
- Experience supporting high-risk military training or operations involving airborne, diving, maritime, insertion and extraction, breaching, or specialized activities
- Knowledge of Tactical Combat Casualty Care principles, advanced point-of-injury care, and tactical casualty management
- Ability to develop, evaluate, and provide recommendations on tactical medical training, casualty scenarios, medical readiness, medical safety planning, and emergency response procedures
- Top Secret clearance
- Current NREMT-Paramedic, USSOCOM Advanced Tactical Paramedic, and Tactical Combat Casualty Care Tier 4 Instructor certifications
- Completion of military Basic Airborne Training, combatant Diver or Diving Medical Technician training, and an approved Level-C Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape course
- HS diploma or GED
Qualifications
- Experience supporting ARG or MEU pre-deployment training or certification exercises
- Experience with Marine Corps training and readiness standards, training management processes, and operational planning
- Knowledge of amphibious operations, reconnaissance operations, raids, maritime interdiction, visit-board-search-and-seizure activities, and expeditionary operations