ACOTA Senior PSO Staff Mentor at IDS International

Job Description

• Mentor, advise, and assist GAF trainers as they plan, design, and conduct CSOS training for a minimum of 15 training days, which includes 5 days for a Command Post Exercise (CPX) for a GAF battle group and staff preparing to deploy to UNMISS.
• Mentor GAF FSOS cadre to emphasize some of the following key objectives:
  • Battalion planning and decision making, specific duties of principal and special staff sections and the operation of a 24-hour tactical operations center (TOC).
  • Effective political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time (PMESII-PT) assessment of the battalion’s projected area of responsibility (AOR).
  • Force Protection
  • Base Security and Entry Control Procedures
  • Convoy Security, to include Breakdown/Recovery Operations
  • Route, Area and Point Reconnaissance Operations
  • Unit Mobility and Engineering Operations
  • Cordon and Search Operations

Requirement/Skills

• Minimum of a BA/ BS Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of fifteen (15) cumulative years of experience in military operations to include combat arms battalion/brigade level staff or as a civilian trainer of U.S. or foreign military staff.
• Experience as senior trainer to a foreign security partner with directly related experience in capacity building and unit-level assessments.
• Thorough understanding of international human rights and peacekeeping mission mandates, including gender respect/parity, protection of civilians (POC), and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). 
• Battalion and/or brigade staff experience while deployed to a combat, peacekeeping, or other contingency operation, U.S. or foreign military.
• Ability to fill the role of TL if required to best support the goals and tasks of the GPOI Program.
• Military Education Level 3 or 4 (Command and General Staff College or equivalent).
• UN Peacekeeping Operations experience.
• Employee needs to be able to sit at a workstation for extended periods; use hand(s) to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
• Most positions require ability to work on desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time reading, reviewing/analyzing information, and providing recommendations, summaries and/or reports in written format.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with others verbally and in writing.
• Employee may be required to occasionally lift and/or move moderate amounts of weight, typically less than 20 pounds.
• Regular and predictable attendance is essential.