Special Operations Cognitive Performance Specialist (Camp Lejeune (Sneads Ferry), NC)
Company: KBR, Inc.
Location: Camp Lejeune
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Title:
Special Operations Cognitive Performance Specialist (Camp Lejeune
(Sneads Ferry), NC)
THIS POSITION OFFERS RELOCATION.
KBR maintains a highly qualified workforce to help care for service
people and astronauts. We attract the best minds in the world
because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and
collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge
solutions and services.
Cognitive Performance is an interdisciplinary field spanning
kinesiology, psychology, and motor learning and control. The
Cognitive Performance Specialist shall train SOF personnel, with
the priority on SOF Operators and Direct Combat Support personnel,
to develop and use the cognitive skills necessary to perform
optimally in training and operations.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Based on evidence-based peer-reviewed literature train and
educate SOF personnel, in individual and group settings, in
specific cognitive, mental, behavioral, psychosocial, perceptual,
learning, adaptive thinking, human engagements, and emotional
control skills, strategies - including understanding, acquisition,
and retention - performance improvement and maintenance with
documentation of work performed, implemented, and provided to SOF
personnel.
- Assist and advise the HP Program Manager and/or Coordinator in
matters relating to mental performance, exercise and sports
psychology.
- Provide information about mental performance, exercise and
sports psychology factors in sports, exercise, and physical
activity.
- Train and educate on goal-setting, performance profiling,
visualization, performance development, and planning.
- Participate in periodic meetings to review human performance
training provided to patients and identify opportunities for
improvement.
- Attend and participate in meetings with other POTFF staff
members and medical personnel as requested and/or required.
- Collaborate with the HP staff to enhance the quality and
effectiveness of mental and human performance development and
expertise delivered.
- Conduct periodic literature reviews to ensure HP stays current
with the provision of care.
- Support research conducted under supervision of the HP program
Manager and/or Coordinator.
- Assist the HP Program Manager and/or Coordinator in developing
and maintaining practice guidelines to ensure consistency of
service across all Human Performance Training Centers (HPTCs).
- Proficiently utilize computers, software, and technologies as
required and requested by the HP program manager and/or coordinator
and required by USSOCOM HQ and its POTFF staff.
- Maintain 100% compliance with local mandatory command training
requirements.
- Attend required training in accordance with guiding
instructions. Commands will allow for attendance at necessary
conferences or courses to complete continuing education units
required to maintain certification.
- Document work performed, utilization, referrals, and all other
information in the HP Enterprise- wide database (i.e., Smartbase),
as directed by HP program Manager and/or Coordinator and required
by USSOCOM HQ and its POTFF staff.
Required Education/Experience/Skills/Training:
- Position requires U.S. Citizenship.
- This position requires a Secret Clearance or Top Secret
Clearance, or the ability to obtain a clearance.
- Master's degree (Doctoral degree preferred) in Human
Performance, Kinesiology, or Exercise Science, and/or Sport
Sciences with a specialization in Sport Psychology.
- Must have a minimum of 5 years or more of demonstrable
accumulated experience (continuous and sustained experience
preferred) as a mental performance coach or Sport Psychologist with
individual athletes and groups of athletes at the levels of NCAA
Division I, Olympic, professional, and/or SOF Operators in the
accompanying, respective settings. Paid full-time experience as a
Government civilian or contract employee at US Army and/or Marine
Corps Infantry Units, may be counted towards minimum qualification
requirements, provided this experience was gained within the most
recent, continuous 3 years, as a directly embedded staff member,
on-site with respective Army and/or Marine Corp entities.
- Must be capable to properly lift and manipulate loads or
weights up to 25 kilograms and capable of meeting physical demands
of training with SOF including the ability to hike over rough
terrain, function in austere environments and on various fixed or
rotary wing aircraft, waterborne craft, or ground transport to
observe SOF training evolutions and to conduct training and
education.
Desired Education/Experience/Skills/Training:
- Prior military and/or SOF experience is desired.
- Certification as a Certified Consultant through the Association
for Applied Sport Psychology (CC-AASP) is desired, but not
required.
Standard Company Requirements:
- Must comply with Safety, Health and Environmental plan,
policies and procedures.
- Must comply with the Quality Assurance plan, policies and
procedures.
- Must maintain regular and acceptable attendance.
- Responsible for completing all required training.
- Perform other assignments and duties, as required.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic
information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other
characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic
information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other
characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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