Description

**Position is subject to contract award**

BlueForce Inc. is seeking for a Training Resource Management and Development Senior Technical Trainer in support of the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) in Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and other African countries. There are Technical Trainer positions for candidates having a minimum of 5 years of technical experience. Training schedule will be determined by the US Government ranging between 2-25 weeks a year.
GPOI is a U.S. Department of State security assistance program focused on building international peacekeeping capacity worldwide in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). The GPOI program’s mission is to strengthen the effectiveness of the United Nations (UN) and regional peace operations by enhancing partner countries’ capacities to prepare, deploy, and sustain peacekeepers and reinforcing UN and regional organizations’ performance and accountability frameworks. State’s Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Office of Global Programs and Initiatives, Peace Operations Capacity Building Division (PM/GPI/POCB) serves as the GPOI Program Office. 
The Training Resource Management and Development Senior Technical Trainer shall be one of the principal trainers conducting various peacekeeping-related contract training requirements. The candidate shall have a minimum of 10 years of technical experience which includes a relevant blend of military skills, experience, knowledge, and current certifications that will enable that individual to successfully train specific task performance objectives. 
The Technical Trainer shall support the Senior Technical Trainer in the conduct of all technical contract training requirements. The candidate shall have a minimum of 5 years of technical experience.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Minimum of ten (10) cumulative years of U.S. or NATO military experience. 
• Demonstrated management of training resources, training planning, and development experience at the tactical or operational level.
  • Demonstrated training management and development experience is defined as military service in an assignment where that person directly taught, assessed, developed, or managed the collective personnel management and/or institutional processes of the planning and execution of training a military unit(s) or organization(s).
• Attainment of military grade of E7-E9, CWO3-CWO5, or O4 and higher.
• Relevant military operations or foreign security force (police or military) capacity building experience in the last 5 years. 
• Experience as a trainer, military or civilian, to a foreign security partner. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Fluent in French (FSI 3/3 Professional Working Proficiency). 
• Demonstrated experience in a U.S. or NATO military training and doctrine development organization or permanent assignment to a U.S. or NATO military training school or combat training center with direct training and unit development.
• Experience working in sub-Saharan Africa.