Interpersonal Performance Coach - Fort Liberty, NC

F3EA, Inc. is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), established in 2013, and dedicated to delivering high quality training and management service solutions to U.S. Government customers primarily within the Special Operations and Intelligence communities. As a provider of mission support, security, and training services; F3EA's core competency resides in providing full-spectrum support, development, and execution of interagency Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercises (EDREs) and Joint Full Mission Profile (FMP) exercises to enhance performance and improve operational capabilities both domestically and overseas. F3EA's respected position in the USSOCOM community is built on realistic, demanding, and cutting-edge exercise delivery with the expertise and experience to meet and exceed the performance requirements identified to support Joint Forces Commanders.

F3EA, Inc. offers a complete benefit package for all full-time positions to include health, dental, and vision plan options, life insurance for employees, spouse and children, short term disability, long term disability, Paid Time Offer, Paid Sick Leave, paid holidays, 401k, etc.

Job Summary

Provide instruction in interpersonal performance education and training to enhance ARSOF soldiers' ability to: think and solve problems in unconventional ways. Maintain composure while responding to or adjusting one's own thinking and actions to fit a changing environment. Recognize, understand, and navigate withing multiple social networks and proactively shape the environment or circumstances in anticipation of desired outcomes. Develop and provide instruction in interpersonal performance that provides the skills and techniques required for ARSOF soldiers to physically, mentally, and interpersonally excel while operating under high stress in ambiguous, high-risk, chaotic, and physically demanding environments.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop and provide interpersonal education and training to enhance thinking, problem solving, and unconventional solution development.
• Serve as HP SMEs to assist in the integration of physiological and biometric sensors, and other technology to determine training impacts through Measure of Performance (MOPs) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs). This will include the use of a current synthetic training environment (STE) capabilities and future semi-immersive and virtual immersive capabilities training capabilities including AR, VR, and MR technologies. Coaches will work with Soldiers during individual and collective marksmanship training with simulated and real weapons (configured for use in the STE; no live ammunition) on the application of human performance (HP) skills.
• Develop and provide education and training for maintaining composure while responding and/or adjusting to changing environments.
• Coach and educate shaping the environment while recognizing, understanding, anticipating and navigating multiple social networks.
• Instruct and coach negotiation techniques in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational environment.
• Collaborate with multi-service, joint, federal, and/or designated organizations to share, research, and implement best practices of interpersonal performance theory into practical application.
• Perform statistical analysis, provide findings and input for oral and/or written reports.
• Train, instruct, and coach Soldiers and Leaders in engagement and negotiations techniques and application to individual and collective military tasks and operations.
• Assist maintaining professional development programs to ensure implementation of current literature, academics, and best practices related to interpersonal performance.
• Instruct, train, and coach in engagement and negotiation techniques, conflict styles, adaptive thinking, conflict resolution, and mediation.
• Perform instruction, training, and education in field environments and under seasonal and adverse weather conditions.
• Perform instruction, training, and education in field environments requiring movement/transportation via watercraft, aircraft, and/or ground vehicular means.
• Assist and provide input to presentations/briefings that inform leaders and decision makers.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Required Qualifications and Education

• Bachelor's degree from regionally accredited college or university.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience with SOF and minimum three (3) OCONUS deployments with SOF.
• Served in leadership positions as a Commissioned Officer (O3 or above), Chief Warrant Officer (CW2 or above), Senior Non-commissioned Officer (E-8 or above) in Civil Affairs, Special Forces of Psychological Operations units.
• Minimum two (2) years' experience as an instructor with Army Special Operations forces (ARSOF) with groups of up to 100 individuals.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in negotiations, engagements, or cross-cultural communications with large, small, and individual audiences, in classroom and field environments under adverse conditions.

Preferred Qualifications and Education

• Master's degree in education, social sciences, or business.
• Master's degree in sport psychology or sub-disciplines of intervention/performance enhancement, health/exercise psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling, or social psychology.

Work authorization/security clearance requirements

• Secret security clearance required.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Periodically work in a field environment observing ARSOF Soldiers (up to 40 hours per two weeks). FTE may be exposed to a variety of weather conditions and extreme temperatures ranging from the upper 120s degrees Fahrenheit in the daytime to the lower 20s degrees Fahrenheit at night. It is the Contractors responsibility to ensure that all its personnel have been briefed and prepared to operate in weather conditions such as hot, cold or wet weather and come with the appropriate clothing and equipment for operating under such conditions.
• Able to conduct movements by land, sea, or air via Military/Commercial fixed or rotary wing aircraft, waterborne craft, or ground transport in support of unit training in assigned core supporting tasks.
• Able to walk cross-country (uneven, rocky, sandy, and water obstacles up to waist high) in all weather conditions during day, night, and low visibility periods. Able to operate outside of a normal office environment where restrooms and wash facilities are not available.
• Able to carry a backpack (up to 20 pounds) cross-country while observing cadre and Soldiers.
• Able to be transported in government provided ground vehicles and/or military aviation. Environment: [office, outdoor, etc.]
• Hours: Full-time work week (Monday through Friday), hours dependent on mission requirements, occasional weekends as needed]
• Travel: 0 - 15 %

Additional Notes

Ideal candidate will be a former Special Forces member and college graduate with the desire and drive to grow with a growing company. Must be able to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, ambiguous and constantly changing environment.

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

F3EA, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. F3EA, Inc. makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.