What are the responsibilities and job description for the CWMD Advance Course Manager position at ARA?
ARA's ISR division is looking to hire a CWMD Advance Course Manager. As the CWMD Advance Course Manager, you will lead the planning and management of DTRA's CWMD Advanced Course. You will provide comprehensive support throughout the entire planning, conduct, and follow-up of the course.
CWMD Advance Course Manager Responsibilities :
- Must be in near continuous communication with personnel supporting the course and adapt workloads to accomplish multiple deadlines, provide direction and judgement, and evaluate employee, subcontractor, and consultant performance.
- Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the US DoD doctrine, TTPs, and SOPs required to detect, protect, decontaminate, and treat casualties in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) environment.
- Serve as an expert in the treatment protocols and protection measures associated with exposure to chemical and biological warfare agents as well as exposure to high-level external ionizing radiation.
- Provide training to military and / or civilian personnel on patient diagnosis, treatment and procedures required to treat CBRN casualties.
- Planning, scheduling, and managing the DTRA Special Operations Forces (SOF) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Advanced Course. This course provides both medical and non-medical SOF personnel with the skills necessary to detect, protect, decontaminate, and treat casualties in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) environment.
- Serve as a SME on conducting training on casualty treatment and operations in a CBRN environment as well as clinical and planning strategies for multi-system trauma patients in a prolonged field care setting.
- Serve as a SME on conducting training to recognize the signs and symptoms of CBRN agent exposure, treatment of contaminated soldiers, and decontamination.
- Serve as a SME on casualty treatment techniques and procedures that are based on doctrine, extensive research, and evidence-based medical and scientific studies.
- Update SOF CWMD Advanced Course Program of Instruction annually or more, as required.
- Oversee the movement, distribution, and storage of both durable and expendable course equipment.
- Maintain proficiency and awareness of biological warfare agent detection equipment to include basic instrument maintenance, operational theory, and interpretation of instrument outputs / responses to both simulant and live agent biological challenges. Instruments will include currently fielded US DoD equipment (e.g. immunoassays, PCR analysis, and mass spectrometry equipment).
- Maintain proficiency and awareness of chemical warfare agent detection equipment to include basic instrument maintenance, operational theory, and interpretation of instrument outputs / responses to both simulant and live agent chemical challenges. Instruments will include currently fielded US DoD equipment (e.g. M8 & M256A2 CDK, JCAD, RMX - Raman, FTX - FTIR, MX908 HPMS) and select nonstandard detection equipment (e.g. multi-gas - 4 gas detector w / PID, colorimetric test papers and length of stain tubes).
- Serve as a SME on applying the essential techniques of the Joint Trauma Systems (JTS) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) MARCHE2 process.
Offer is contingent upon contract award.
CWMD Advance Course Manager Required Qualifications :
Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guideline, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Injury Part I : Initial Response to CBRN Agents (CPG ID : 69) (01 May 2018)
CWMD Advance Course Manager Preferred Qualifications :
Who is ARA?
Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,271 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.
ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company.
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