AUKUS CSF Training Project Lead

SPA's Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Air Force, Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defense Force. Our primary objective is to provide timely, objective and analytic assessments that integrate the policy, operational, technical, programmatic and acquisition aspects of our clients' challenges. Leveraging both in-domain and cross-domain expertise to maximize our clients' success, SLA Division acts as trusted agents to senior decision-makers and key leaders and excels at providing data driven analytic insights, systems engineering, strategies and plans that address current and emerging challenges to national security.

The AUKUS and Submarine Industrial Base Group, within SPA's Sea, Land, and Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA's AUKUS Integration and Acquisition Program Office and associated partner organizations. Analysts and Engineers supporting AUKUS will continue SPA's decades of support to the undersea force and assist in developing a trilateral submarine force for the future. This is a high-profile, major international program of significant importance to the future of the US Navy and its partners in an era of renewed strategic competition.

The AUKUS COMSUBFOR team within the AUKUS Group is charged with delivering high-quality, timely tracking, analysis and policy solutions to a variety of challenging problems in the man/train/equip (raise/train/sustain) space. We work in a dynamic environment with new information and bureaucratic realities often forcing adjustments in approach and priorities. Current chartered lines of effort include workforce modeling and future workforce development, policy development, training strategy implementation, knowledge transfer, and operational process development.

Your role will be to 1) Develop expertise in assigned areas through completion of assigned training, written research, and interviews with subject matter experts, 2) Maintain status, drive progress and provide frequent updates on all assigned tasks, 3) Communicate clearly and concisely across a wide range of products including e-mail, after-action reports, policy or other structured papers, data analytics, and flag-level briefings, 4) Organize and support virtual and in-person meetings where much of our difficult trilateral coordination is accomplished, 5) Exercise project leadership. Design, plan, organize deliverables, and ensure that strategic intent of all assigned projects is met, 6) Motivate, mentor and lead purpose-built teams across functional, organization and international boundaries to accomplish objectives, and 7) Build new relationships as necessary.

Required Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 10+ years with submarine operations and training
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with senior leaders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability in communicating complex topics in written form (writing sample required)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Power Point, Word, and Excel
• Current DoD Secret Clearance

Skills (Desired):

• Experience with Type Commander or other Navy staff highly preferred
• Experience working with international partners