Senior PSO Soldier Skills Mentor - IDS International

IDS International is seeking a Senior PSO Soldier Skills Mentor to support the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) contract in Ghana. The Senior PSO Soldier Skills Mentor will be the Team Lead’s principal mentor for GAF-led company-grade mission leadership and GAF-led soldier skills training. The Senior PSO Soldier Skills Mentor will mentor, advise and assist GAF trainers conducting soldier skills training to battalions deploying to MONUSCO and UNMISS IAW with learning objectives and outcomes. This position is based in Ghana and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor, advise, and assist GAF trainers as they plan, design, and conduct Soldier Skills Training for a GAF battalion of officers, noncommissioned officers and soldiers preparing to deploy to South Sudan.
• Emphasize the role of the PN cadre in leading the execution of soldier skills training, with trainers in a supporting role to ensure trainees are receiving and absorbing training topics.
• Provide mentoring support to strengthen the capabilities of PN cadre to effectively execute training.
• Instill a strong understanding of the ROE, including peacekeepers’ rights to use force for self-defense and defense of the mandate.
• Mentor, advise, and assist GAF providing training on those skills necessary for soldiers, at the individual, squad, platoon and company levels to operate in UNMISS.
• Mentor, advise, and assist the GAF to develop, prepare and execute GAF-led Field Training Certification Exercise (FTX/CERTEX).

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of U.S. or foreign military operations and training experience in a Combat Arms Specialty “armor, cavalry, special forces or infantry.” 
• Experience as senior trainer to a foreign security partner with directly related experience in capacity building.
• Thorough understanding of international human rights and peacekeeping mandates, including gender respect/parity, protection of civilians (POC), prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (POC). 
• Military Education Level 3 or 4 (Command and General Staff College or NCOES equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Tactical maneuver experience (member of an armor, cavalry, special forces or infantry battalion) while deployed to a combat, peacekeeping, or other contingency operation, U.S. or foreign military, at O-3 to O-5, E-7 through E-9 level.

Employee needs to be able to sit at a workstation for extended periods; use hand(s) to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Most positions require ability to work on desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time reading, reviewing/analyzing information, and providing recommendations, summaries and/or reports in written format. Must be able to effectively communicate with others verbally and in writing. Employee may be required to occasionally lift and/or move moderate amounts of weight, typically less than 20 pounds. Regular and predictable attendance is essential.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local law.

If you require an accommodation to apply for a position with IDS International, please email accommodation@idsinternational.com.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local law.

If you require an accommodation to apply for a position with IDS International, please email accommodation@idsinternational.com.