Training Manager

Employer: IDS International Government Services LLC.
Location: Monterey, California
About IDS International
IDS International offers world class capabilities in the range of complex missions from humanitarian and disaster relief operations, security force assistance training, stability operations, human domain research and expertise, conflict prevention, counterinsurgency, civil affairs, and interagency political military integration. We
provide capacity building in trouble spots across the globe, from Tripoli to Kabul to Timbuktu. We work with private and public sector international partners across four continents, providing advice, training, and research.

IDS is known for the quality and current qualifications of its analysts and experts. Our senior people have typically recently returned from mid- and senior-level assignments in conflict zones, from the State Department to the United Nations to an NGO. Our experts help US government agencies and personnel to better understand the complexities of 21st century conflict — across civilian and military agencies and from the sub-state to transnational environment.

IDS International is seeking candidates in support of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) training opportunity. Program areas in which we are seeking candidates include the following:

• International Mobile Education Teams and Civil-Military Relations courses
These courses include topics such as Civilian Control of the Armed Forces in a Democracy, International Defense Transformation, and Domestic and International Defense Challenges. Seminars are generally one to two weeks long.

• Professional Military Exercises
These activities include TDY assignments abroad, such as conducting an annual Yudh Abyas Command Post exercise series to include a Concept Development Conference, an Initial Planning Conference, a Final Planning Conference, and a STAFFEX/Academics/CPX final event all to be held in India. Activities generally last five to seventeen days.

• International Defense Acquisition Resource Management
These courses include topics such as Contracting for Pre-Deployment and Deployment Operations, Defense Program Management, Strategies for Building and Sustaining Accountability in Defense Resource Management Systems, and Transparency and Defense Acquisition. Courses generally last one to two weeks.

• Combating Terrorism
These courses include topics such as Civil-Military Responses to Terrorism, Media Dynamic and Terrorism, as well as Ethics and Combating Terrorism. Classes typically last one to two weeks.

• Stabilization and Reconstruction
This area includes tasks such as conducting a workshop on Building Capacities for Cross-Cultural Communication with emphasis on peace and conflict issues with the purpose of creating an interactive forum in which practitioners of diverse backgrounds jointly explore how to work with cultural differences in volatile social contexts. It can also include conducting a series of courses on the challenges associated with Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration and a nation’s Security Sector Reform in a post-conflict environment for global representatives. Activities generally last three to five days.

• Curriculum Development
Activities include designing and conducting Concept Development and Experimentation activities, producing baseline documents which will define and identify functional areas of the program, and conducting MET scenario development activities.

• Defense Institution Building
This area includes activities such as conducting a series of one-week seminar events and working groups in Kiev for the Ukraine Armed Force on topics including the development of the Joint Operations and Special Operations commands; courses, seminars, and working groups in various countries involving NATO’s Partnership for Peace; and conducting a series of assessment team visits to T’bilisi for Georgia Defense Transformation Initiatives. These activities typically last one week.

• Defense Institution Reform
This area generally consists of tasks such as engaging with partner nations in a series of 1-2 week long visits conducted over an 18-24 month period, and involve conducting a lengthy and ongoing series of working groups and seminars to develop and implement the Master Ministerial Defense Plan for the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul.

• Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiatives
This area includes tasks such as teaching a series of one or two-week seminars or short courses to include United Nations (UN) Civil-Military Coordination, instructing a UN Peace Support Operations Instructors’ Course, teaching a Negotiating Effective Support Agreements with International Organizations course, and reviewing Ministry of Defense and Defense HQ’s peacekeeping roles and missions. Duration can vary by task.

• Leader Development and Education
The mission of these programs is to provide graduate level education for military and civilian leaders to establish a regional, geopolitical, and cultural framework for understanding the challenges of conducting full spectrum operations in unique and rapidly changing environments. They generally include three to four day seminar events that assist Brigade, Division and Corps Command Teams understand the impact of historical trends, assess political, socio-cultural and economic conditions, security threats and the challenges of establishing rule of law and governance, conduct human terrain analyses, adapt the mission to cultural differences, promote U.S. objectives and effectively engage in building partnerships in country/region of interest.

• Operational Training
• Concept Development and Joint Operations

More information on the Naval Postgraduate School and CCMR can be found at: http://www.nps.edu/ and http://www.ccmr.org/ respectively.

Note: These positions are contingent upon Task Order award.

Training Manager
• A minimum of a Master’s degree or 8 years of experience in a relevant field is required for these positions.
• Should have advanced skill and knowledge to support analysis of training applications within a complex multi-national, multi-dimensional operational environment at the strategic level, develop functional systems, and integrating appropriate support and documentation.
• Designs and prepares reports, studies, and related documentation for training applications, develops assessment criteria for achieving program results and prepares and delivers presentations and briefings to support program development.
• Participates in all phases of program development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, integration, documentation, and presentation aspects.
• Directs program/technical support operations involving multiple tasks/projects and personnel at diverse locations.
• Meets and confers with client management officials regarding the status of specific contractor program/technical activities and progress.

How to Apply
URL :  http://www.idsinternational.net/current-openings