Job ID: 2613352
Location: Virginia Beach, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-06-04
Category: Defense/Intel
Subcategory: Military Operations
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
The Army Navy Business Group currently has a career opportunity for an Academic Training Analyst to provide fleet training support as a subject matter expert (SME) at Tactical Training Group Atlantic (TTGL), Dam Neck Annex, Virginia Beach, VA.
The ideal candidate will be a senior trainer/evaluator with five or more years’ experience implementing academic training or instructing, including at least one tour at a Navy training command. He/she will have a broad understanding of fleet tactical warfare principles, doctrine, the Navy Planning Process (NPP), and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP), and experience in naval fleet synthetic training (FST) development, execution and evaluation, and simulation program operation. In addition, he/she will have excellent public speaking, presentation, and time management skills, as well as at least eight years of applicable Training SME experience in:
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Conducting fleet training analysis to identify gaps, training needs and solutions
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Developing and modifying training event/exercise scenarios
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Delivering training in person and/or online
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Developing training curricula
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Managing training projects
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Designing custom training to meet Fleet and joint training objectives
Specific Functional Area tasks include:
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Deliver and monitor on-site academic instruction for training audiences and provide Mobile Training Team (MTT) instruction for ships, staffs and other DoW/HLS units.
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Develop, maintain and deliver instructional material supported by outlines, lesson plans, reference material, briefs, lectures, videos, scenarios, animations, handouts, student and instructor workbooks and study guides, testing materials, critiques and feedback designed to prepare the warfighter to bring effective skill-sets to ships, squadrons, warfare commander staffs, group staffs, NFC staffs, and other organizations/ commands involved in conducting naval, joint and coalition/allied maritime operations.
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Translate academic content, lessons learned, emerging doctrinal changes and training and education requirements into useable training products and services including customized instruction for short notice deployment, unit-level, group, and Fleet-specific requirements to meet the needs of deploying naval forces.
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Research, analyze and employ the best learning strategies and methods to employ, train and sustain a quality instructional staff as well as leveraging state-of-the art technology into the development and delivery of all phases of training by aggressively pursuing options including collaborative technologies, blended learning models, simulations, and games to fully engage and motivate the students.
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Develop and provide inputs for the development of course completion reports following the delivery of training.
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Provide recommendations to the Government regarding materials needed for a tactical reference library (virtual and hard copy) of classified and unclassified manuals, documents and reference materials required to conduct training and for the development and maintenance of curriculum.
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Assess courseware, delivery methods and new versions of applications to determine impact, functionality, and best methodologies to develop and deliver training on new application’s functionality and based on changes to policy, doctrine, higher headquarters guidance, lessons learned, software version updates, and course content review board results and changes to models and simulation.
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Monitor applications development schedules and assess equipment requirements for future version releases.
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Inform Government of equipment, personnel, training, specialized expertise, and time requirements necessary to accomplish future training.
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Provide input to TTGL schedules officer with regard to annual scheduling of academic courses using the most cost-effective and efficient plan for in-house instruction and MTTs.
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Understand all principal combat mission areas, IAMD, SUW, ASW, Intelligence, IO/IW, STW, EXW, and C2, and how they interact at the CWC level and below.
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Provide expertise in assigned combat mission area, including subject matter expertise in US, Allied/Coalition, and threat platform capabilities, tactics, and doctrine.
Qualifications
REQUIRED BACKGROUND / EDUCATION / SKILLS:
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Must be a U.S. citizen with Top Secret clearance and Bachelor of Arts or Science degree.
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Five (5) years of experience as a senior trainer/evaluator.
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Four (4) years of general training program analyst and Functional Area experience (4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree will be considered); see detailed tasks above.
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Must possess proven written and verbal communication skills at the junior management and senior executive level, be able to act independently, and effectively manage multiple priorities and interruptions with minimal impact on productivity and deliverables.
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Experience in use of MS Office (e.g., Excel and PowerPoint) products.
DESIRED BACKGROUND / EDUCATION / SKILLS:
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Understanding of all phases of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP) and familiarity with the FRTP, Fleet Training policy documents (including the Fleet Training Continuum [FTC], and Type Commander Training and Readiness manuals.
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Two (2) years of experience with Tactical Warfare Modeling and Simulation Systems (JSAF, JAWS, or BFTT).
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Master Training Specialist qualification.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
