Targeting Trainer

About the role

The trainer will coach, mentor, and evaluate students on all aspects of the Joint Targeting Cycle and Joint Targeting Principles in accordance with the applicable Joint Publications. This position requires a talented individual with prior Joint Targeting experience, the ability to teach and communicate with students effectively, and the understanding to create and maintain a self-sustained course. The targeting trainer must be willing to travel globally to support mobile training teams, as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide targeting subject matter expertise on all manners of Joint Targeting through target development and target execution.
• Prepare, maintain, and update the targeting course(s) as necessary.
• Develop and maintain student records, providing them to the course director.

Required Skills

• Attendance and graduation from at least one Joint Staff Targeting course OR 1 year of operational time in a Joint Targeting billet.
• Familiarization with the formal nomination and validation of targets at either the Component Command or Combatant Command level.
• A firm understanding of the operational and legal differences between traditional kinetic and non-kinetic targeting frameworks.
• Strong familiarity with the current Joint Force inventory of space electromagnetic warfare systems and their ground-based operational capabilities.
• Comprehensive understanding of the technical differences between types of satellite communications technologies used globally.
• Thorough understanding of the Intelligence Community.
• Proven ability to actively maintain a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS / SCI) security clearance.

Required Experience

• Proven track record of successfully supporting Joint Targeting activities in support of a Component Command or Combatant Command.

Desired Qualifications

• Documented time spent serving on a United States Military Service Component-Level Staff, preferably in the United States Space Force or United States Army.
• A Master's or Ph.D graduate degree in a space-related field or intelligence discipline.

Desired Experience

• Operational time spent assigned to a Space Integrated Fires Element (SIFE), Space Control Planning Team (SCPT), or Joint Fires Element (JFE).
• Direct commercial sector experience managing, designing, or implementing modern commercial satellite communications technologies.

Travel

Applicants selected will likely travel up to 35% of the time.

Pay

Salary Range: $85-105K