CWMD Advance Course Manager

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...