# Training and Exercise Specialist

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,750 - $155,250
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Training and Exercise Specialist develops and delivers training and exercises that ensure a DHS national cyber operations center workforce remains qualified and mission-ready for 24/7 operations, surge support, and crisis response.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Training Program Development: Conduct training needs assessments, develop qualification standards, curricula, training materials, job aids, and onboarding programs.

- Training Delivery: Deliver instructor-led, hands-on, virtual, and on-the-job training, provide instruction on procedures, playbooks, cybersecurity tools, analytics platforms, and AI-assisted workflows.

- Exercise Design and Execution: Design, conduct, and evaluate tabletop and functional exercises using HSEEP methodology.

- Readiness and Certification Management: Maintain training, qualification, and certification records, provide readiness data, and identify qualification gaps or certification expirations.

- Knowledge and Procedure Management: Support refinement of procedures, playbooks, and escalation processes through training and exercises.

- Quality, Compliance, and Accessibility: Apply quality-control standards to training and exercise products, verify technical accuracy, accessibility, review processes, and required approvals.

- Surge Training and Rapid Enablement: Deliver just-in-time training and updated job aids during incidents, emergencies, or major operational changes.

- Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Develop final training and exercise deliverables, provide knowledge transfer and maintenance guidance to government personnel.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, Emergency Management, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience developing and delivering training programs.

- 3+ years of experience designing or conducting exercises.

- Experience with instructional design methodologies (such as ADDIE).

- Experience designing and conducting HSEEP-based exercises.

- Experience training technical or operational audiences.

- Experience with learning management systems and training record management.

- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance.

- Eligibility for TS/SCI access.

- Ability to work onsite at DHS Headquarters and other National Capital Region locations.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner (MEPP) certification or HSEEP training.

- Experience supporting a security operations center, watch floor, or emergency operations center.

- Experience conducting cyber exercises involving critical infrastructure partners.

- CPTD, CTT+, or similar training certifications.

- Experience developing Section 508-compliant training materials.

- Experience supporting DHS, CISA, FEMA, or DoD programs.

- Experience evaluating training effectiveness using the Kirkpatrick model.

- Familiarity with CISA cybersecurity training resources and current HSEEP doctrine.

- Ability to support after-hours, weekend, holiday, on-call, and continuity operations.

- Current DHS Entry on Duty (EOD) suitability determination.

- Experience handling Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

The likely salary range for this position is $114,750 - $155,250.

## Skills

### Required
- Training and Development
- Training Coordination
- Training Delivery
- Training Needs Assessment

### Nice to have
- FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner (MEPP)
- HSEEP training
- CPTD
- CTT+
- Section 508-compliant training materials

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