Space Operations Instructor

What you'll be doing:

• Prepare space professionals to operate spacecraft and command crews to accomplish orbital engagements during contested operations to ensure mission readiness and operational effectiveness
• Maintain training documentation and course materials to ensure compliance with Air Force and Space Force training standards
• Provide classroom instruction consistent with Instructional System Development (ISD) satisfying government training requirements
• Interface with internal and external agencies as required maintaining up-to-date training program
• Conduct, manage and qualify for courses based on 533RD TRS instructions and other guidance as identified in the lesson plans
• Interface with external agencies as required maintaining up-to-date training program
•  Coordinate with Division Chiefs, training managers, and government training personnel to synchronize instructional activities, update course content, and improve training effectiveness
• Collaborate with curriculum development to ensure courseware reflects current doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs), rubrics, along with other academic requirements
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by incorporating curriculum updates, emerging operational concepts, and lessons learned into instructional programs
• Instruct multiple training blocks in accordance with 533rd TRS guidance, lesson plans, and applicable training directives:
•  Ensure foundational understanding of C2 (Command and Control), Cyber, Intelligence, JIPOE (Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operation Environment) and Mission Planning
• Ensure foundational understanding of Space Domain Awareness, Missile Warning, Payload Navigation and Timing, and Nuclear Detonation Detection
• Ensure foundational understanding of SATCOM and Electronic Warfare as well as the basics of orbital mechanics and how it’s applied in Orbital Warfare
• Ensure students apply knowledge learned in previous mission areas and execute multi-day hands on exercises
• Evaluate Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) learning objectives through progress checks, written exams, performance exercises, rubrics, and mission-planned scenarios, identifying lessons learned from tactical level debriefs

What you'll need:

• Master’s degree from an accredited institution or 8 years of additional experience may be substituted for education requirements
• 6 to 8 years of experience with USAF training, to include planning and delivering instruction in accordance with the ISD model and training records keeping 
• Possess working knowledge and experience with training systems and training programs 
• Possess working knowledge of and experience with operational level command and control 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook)
• Top Secret Clearance and SCI eligibility required
  
  
 
 
Preferred Qualifications:
• Completion of Air Force Basic Instructor Course (BIC)
• Possess expert knowledge of orbital mechanics (Classic Orbital Elements)
• Demonstrated experience with orbit determination and analysis, maneuver planning, Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) and space surveillance
• Expert knowledge with mission planning, building, and executing orbital maneuvers to defeat terrestrial-based and space-based attacks