Resistance Training Lab Role-Play Instructor - Military veterans preferred

Resistance Training Lab Role-Play Instructor, Fort Rucker, Alabama

Personnel will provide Full Spectrum Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) Level C Instruction and instructional support services at Fort Rucker, AL. The mission of the United States Army Full Spectrum SERE Level C Course is to ensure each student graduates with the confidence and appropriate proficiency level to employ SERE and individual Personnel Recovery (PR) tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) necessary to survive and return with honor regardless of the circumstances of isolation.  This is a very demanding environment, with academic instruction, small group hands-on field training, practical application laboratory instruction, and operational performance exercise phases of training.  The course length coupled with the OPTEMPO will require that multiple classes run simultaneously with some overlap, hours worked will depend on class scheduling and will encompass some Weekends and Holidays.

Resistance Training Instructors shall perform Resistance Training Laboratories (RTL) and participate in debriefing of RTL IAW SERE Level-C POI and U.S. Army SERE School SOP.

The Resistance Training Instructor shall conduct resistance training IAW all applicable documents, publications, and policies and future updates. Resistance training shall include laboratory role-play instruction, individual debriefs, and guided discussion seminars. Contractor personnel shall possess the necessary training and experience to conduct role-play instruction in U.S. Army SERE School resistance training scenarios, debrief students after individual training events, and conduct group debriefs/guided discussions IAW the U.S. Army SERE School Staff & Faculty Certification Plan.

Personnel shall possess the ability to apply various captor exploitation efforts, to include: interrogation (eight methods), indoctrination, propaganda, video propaganda, concessions, forced labor, and reprisals. Personnel shall have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and assess student’s knowledge and ability to employ resistance and escape strategies in a simulated captivity environment to include Wartime, Peacetime Governmental Detention, and Hostage Detention scenarios. Personnel shall be proficient in individual and group resistance postures, techniques and strategies, establishing overt and covert organizations, establishing overt and covert communications, and planning and executing escapes in all captivity environments.

Personnel shall be capable of applying physical pressures IAW DoD and Army Level C SERE training guidelines. Personnel shall be proficient in emerging SERE guidance, and have the ability to adapt survival principles to satisfy needs during captivity. Additionally, the Instructor may be called upon - IAW the U.S. Army SERE School Staff & Faculty Certification Plan - in an out–of-role capacity to assist with monitoring recording devices during all Resistance Training operations.

Additional Duties: When instructors are not actively engaged in the implementation and/or execution of student training, the Contractor shall provide support for the following SERE course and administrative activities:

• Conduct the In-Service Training Program for military cadre and Contractor instructor staff.
• Assist with the development, maintenance, and implementation of new SERE training schedules.
• Research, design, develop, and recommend new SERE training doctrine relative to SERE Level-C Full Spectrum training requirements integration.
• In coordination with the SERE Course Manager, suggest modifications to SERE training curriculum to ensure currency and relevance to the Personnel Recovery, DOD, and JPRA SERE programs. Any changes or modification are subject to approval by the SERE Course Manager.
• Design, develop, and execute a continuous improvement process allowing for the improvement and implementation of internal and external logistical support requirements necessary to support the SERE training program, the U.S. Army SERE School, and Fort Rucker;
• Maintain SERE training facilities, and as required, SERE support facilities in clean and serviceable state; report facility issues to applicable government section personnel for submission of work orders, as appropriate.
• Perform supply and logistics maintenance and re-stock activities of required SERE issue items, training supplies, and necessary administrative support supplies and stocks.
• Support range operations by assisting with ammunition handling, loading, unloading, and clean-up.

Must be U.S citizens and full spectrum SERE-C prior to the start of any employment on this contract, to include Wartime, Peacetime Governmental Detention (PGD) and Hostage Detention (HD) training. This can be accomplished by either graduating from a DoD course that combines all three training requirements, or having graduated from separate courses that trains these skillsets.

• All instructors are required to have a minimum of a SECRET clearance.
• Pass an initial psychological evaluation, performed by the Government’s Human Factors Psychologist.
• Be cognizant of, and in compliance with, the latest POI as well as DoD and Army-level Personnel Recovery and SERE training guidance and doctrine
• Must have the ability to prepare for critical course content and to instruct based upon lesson objectives and the capacity to motivate students based on these objectives

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• AA/AS or equivalent experience. 
• 1-3 years of direct experience.