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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented SOF CWMD Advanced Course Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the planning and management of the SOF CWMD Advanced Course and provides comprehensive support throughout the entire planning, conduct, and follow-up of the course. Must be in near continuous communication with DoD personnel supporting the course and adapt workloads to accomplish multiple deadlines, provide direction and judgement, and evaluate employee, subcontractor, and consultant performance.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Serves as the DoD 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. The SOF CWMD Advanced Course Manager provides training to military and/or civilian personnel on patient diagnosis, treatment and procedures required to treat CBRN casualties.
• Planning, scheduling, and managing the DoD 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 for the following:
  • 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.
  • Casualty treatment techniques and procedures that are based on doctrine, extensive research, and evidence-based medical and scientific studies.
  • Conducting training to recognize the signs and symptoms of CBRN agent exposure, treatment of contaminated soldiers, and decontamination.
  • Applying the essential techniques of the Joint Trauma Systems (JTS) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) MARCHE2 process.
• 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 - Raman, FTX - FTIR, MX908 HPMS) and select nonstandard detection equipment (e.g. multi-gas - 4 gas detector w/ PID, colorimetric test papers and length of stain tubes).
• Must have a current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a To Secret in the future.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelors and 10+ years experience or 15+ in lieu of degree

• Knowledge of chemical and biological warfare agents, their synthesis, exposure routes, signs, and symptoms, and their mode of transmission.

• Understanding the basic concepts of radiation physics, radiobiology, and the mechanisms by which radiation causes damage to the human body.

• Experienced with practical application of CBRN-related skills, to include operating in contaminated environment and employment of CBRN PPE.

• Graduate of the Advanced HAZMAT Life Support (AHLS) provider course from the University of Arizona.

• Knowledge of contaminated casualty doctrine as outlined in current DoD publications to include:

  o    Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guideline, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Injury Part I: Initial Response to CBRN Agents (CPG ID: 69) (01 May 2018)

  o    Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guideline, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Injury Response Part 2: Medical Management of Chemical Agent Exposure (CPG ID:69) (25 Mar 2022)

  o    Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guideline, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Injury Response Part 3: Medical Management of Radiation Exposure and Nuclear Events) (20 Aug 2024)

  o    Medical aspects of Biological Warfare, Published by the Office of The Surgeon General

  o    Department of the Army (November 2007)

  o    Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare, Published by the Office of The Surgeon General

  o    Department of the Army (January 2008)

  o    Medical Consequences of Radiological and Nuclear Weapons, Published by the Office of The Surgeon General, Department of the Army (October 2012)

  o    ATP 4-02.83 / MCRP 4-11.1B / NTRP 4-02.21 / AFMAN 44-161(I), Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Treatment of Nuclear and Radiological Casualties (05 May 2014)

  o    ATP 4-02.84 / MCRP 3-40A.3 / NTRP 4-02.23 / AFMAN 44-156_IP, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties (21 November 2019)

  o    ATP 4-02.85 / MCRP 3-40A.1 / NTRP 4-02.22 / AFTTP(I) 3-2.69, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Treatment of Chemical Warfare Agent Casualties and Conventional Military Chemical Injuries (02 August 2016)

  
  
  

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Current Top Secret Clearance
• Graduate of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Field Management of Chemical & Biological Casualties (FCBC) and/or (MCBC) course is highly desired.
• Experience as a US military active-duty medical professional is highly desired.
• Experience as an instructor at a training command or in an operational unit’s training department, to include development and delivery of training curriculum is highly desired.
• Knowledge and experience in principles of Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation of medical treatment equipment is highly desired.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Secret

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

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