Location: OCONUS
Description:
This position is the OCONUS PSO specialty trainer for all Africa contingency operations, training and assistance program activities. THIS POSITION REQUIRES UN MILITARY EXPERIENCE, A PASSPORT FOR TRAVEL. PREFER INDIVIDUALS WHO SPEAK AND READ FRENCH with fluency TO PARTICIPATE IN MOST FORMAL AND INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS. See job posting for details.
Required Hours: 40 per week
Responsibilities: Peace Support Operations (PSO) Specialty Trainers shall provide Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) soldier skills specialty instruction to African military units receiving U.S. Department of State’s African Contingency Operations Training Assistance (ACOTA) Program training. Specialty Trainers shall instruct and supervise skills training in African for African company grade and field grade officers and their soldiers who shall deploy to PKOs. Specialty trainers shall be military subject matter experts in the MOS or functional area fields they are teaching. Specialty training will consist of training individuals and organizations in military specialties to include Combat Engineering, Signal/Communications, Level II Hospital units, Medical specialists (Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Trauma Nursing Care, Medical Planning and Management, Combat Medic and Emergency Medical Technician, Dentists and Physicians), Coastal and Riverine units, Airbase and rear area security units, Logistics specialists including operators and maintainers of new equipment, Mortar units, Armor (tank) units, Mechanized Infantry units, Transport (truck) units, Pre-deployment administration, Equipment (to include vehicles) maintenance management, Equipment supply management, Military Police. Trainers are required to know and/or review the US Army doctrine, United Nations, and Host Nation guidance applicable to the task they are responsible for. Trainers must ensure that all training resources are coordinated prior to training.
Required Qualifications:
PSO Specialty Trainer shall have a relevant blend of skills, experience, and knowledge that will allow that individual to best support the goals and tasks of the ACOTA Program.
Minimum of ten (10) years of U.S. military operations and training experience in a Combat Arms, Combat Service, or Combat Service Support specialty appropriate for the skills being taught.
Preferred Qualifications:
Individual with recent U.S. Military combat and/or PKO experience at the E-6 thru O-6 level.
Experience operating in areas with limited life support and in hardship conditions.
French language ability – speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical, social and professional topics, able to read standard newspaper items addressed to the general reader, routine correspondence, reports and technical materials in the individual’s special field.
How To Apply:
Required Hours: 40 per week
Responsibilities: Peace Support Operations (PSO) Specialty Trainers shall provide Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) soldier skills specialty instruction to African military units receiving U.S. Department of State’s African Contingency Operations Training Assistance (ACOTA) Program training. Specialty Trainers shall instruct and supervise skills training in African for African company grade and field grade officers and their soldiers who shall deploy to PKOs. Specialty trainers shall be military subject matter experts in the MOS or functional area fields they are teaching. Specialty training will consist of training individuals and organizations in military specialties to include Combat Engineering, Signal/Communications, Level II Hospital units, Medical specialists (Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Trauma Nursing Care, Medical Planning and Management, Combat Medic and Emergency Medical Technician, Dentists and Physicians), Coastal and Riverine units, Airbase and rear area security units, Logistics specialists including operators and maintainers of new equipment, Mortar units, Armor (tank) units, Mechanized Infantry units, Transport (truck) units, Pre-deployment administration, Equipment (to include vehicles) maintenance management, Equipment supply management, Military Police. Trainers are required to know and/or review the US Army doctrine, United Nations, and Host Nation guidance applicable to the task they are responsible for. Trainers must ensure that all training resources are coordinated prior to training.
Required Qualifications:
PSO Specialty Trainer shall have a relevant blend of skills, experience, and knowledge that will allow that individual to best support the goals and tasks of the ACOTA Program.
Minimum of ten (10) years of U.S. military operations and training experience in a Combat Arms, Combat Service, or Combat Service Support specialty appropriate for the skills being taught.
Preferred Qualifications:
Individual with recent U.S. Military combat and/or PKO experience at the E-6 thru O-6 level.
Experience operating in areas with limited life support and in hardship conditions.
French language ability – speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical, social and professional topics, able to read standard newspaper items addressed to the general reader, routine correspondence, reports and technical materials in the individual’s special field.
How To Apply: