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Academic Training Analyst

SAIC

Virginia Beach, VAJob$60–100K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$60–100K/yr
Location
Virginia Beach, VA
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks an Academic Training Analyst to provide training program analysis and action officer support to Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic in Virginia Beach. The role supports fleet training as a subject matter expert, including academic instruction, curriculum development, training analysis, and synthetic and war-game operations. The ideal candidate has senior trainer/evaluator experience, Navy training command experience, and knowledge of expeditionary warfare and naval fleet synthetic training.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Training AnalysisAcademic TrainingInstructionExpeditionary WarfareNaval Fleet Synthetic TrainingSimulation OperationsPublic SpeakingPresentation SkillsTime ManagementTraining Event DevelopmentCurriculum DevelopmentTraining Project ManagementCustom Training DesignWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationPriority ManagementMS OfficePowerPointExpeditionary OperationsInterface ControlLink-16Modeling and SimulationMTWSJSAFJoint ExercisesNaval ExercisesWar GamingExercise PlanningNavy CWCFleet Training PolicyOFRPFRTPFTC

Qualifications

U.S. CitizenSecret ClearanceBachelor's Degree or 4 Years Experience6 Years General Technical and Functional Area Experience5 Years Senior Trainer/Evaluator ExperienceNavy Training Command TourRecent Military Staff Operations TourMarine ACE, TACRON, or AIC ExperienceSenior Enlisted or Mid-Grade OfficerMTS Qualification

Full job description

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Army Navy Business Group currently has a career opportunity for an Academic Training Analyst to provide training program analysis and action officer support to Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic (EWTGL) in Virginia Beach, VA as a fleet training subject matter expert (SME).

The ideal candidate will be a senior trainer/evaluator with five or more years of experience implementing academic training or instructing, including at least one tour at a Navy training command. He/she will have a broad understanding of expeditionary warfare principles, doctrine, and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) and experience in naval fleet synthetic training (FST) development, execution and evaluation, and simulation program operation. In addition, he/she will have excellent public speaking, presentation, and time management skills, as well as at least six years of applicable Training SME experience in:

Conducting fleet training analyses to identify gaps, training needs, and solutions

Developing and modifying training event/exercise scenarios and curricula

Delivering training in person and/or online

Developing training curricula

Managing training projects

Designing custom training to meet Fleet and Joint/Partner Nation training objectives

Specific Functional Area tasks include:

Provide academic training and education in person, via distant learning, or a blended approach

Develop, maintain and distribute instructional material supported by outlines, lesson plans, reference material, briefs, lectures, scenarios, animations, handouts, student and instructor workbooks and study guides, testing materials, critiques and feedback.

Provide expertise in video software to assist in the production of videos, training aids, and multimedia products.

Provide tailored teaching products and scenarios as approved by course instructors.

Assist in maintaining, updating and standardizing the instructor certification program and ensure instructor knowledge and presentation skills maintain current credentials.

Provide assistance to maintain reference library (virtual and hard copy) of unclassified manuals, documents and reference materials required to conduct training, development and maintenance of curriculum.

Provide support for curriculum review, development and implementation for academics of warfare training requirements.

Provide analysis and recommendations for preferred course/instruction delivery, face-to-face instruction, and synthetic training delivery. Requires close coordination between course/program leads for proper identification of requirements.

Assist with augmentation and back-up assistance with synthetic and war-game operations.

Qualifications

REQUIRED BACKGROUND / EDUCATION / SKILLS:

U.S. citizen with Secret clearance and Bachelor of Arts or Science degree.

Six (6) years of general technical and Functional Area experience (4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree will be considered); see detailed tasks above.

Five (5) years of senior trainer/evaluator experience.

Proven written and verbal communication skills at the junior management and senior executive level, and ability to act independently and effectively manage multiple priorities and interruptions with minimal impact on productivity and deliverables.

Experience in use of MS Office (e.g., PowerPoint) products.

DESIRED BACKGROUND / EDUCATION / SKILLS:

Recent tour in a military staff operations department billet.

Extensive knowledge and experience in Expeditionary operations.

Active military duty as a member of a Marine Air Combat Element (ACE), Tactical Air Control Squadron (TACRON) or Air Intercept Control (AIC) experience at the senior enlisted/mid-grade officer level or higher.

Experience as an Interface Control Officer (ICO) or Link-16 proficiency a plus.

Modeling and simulation experience as a MAGTF Tactical Warfare Simulator (MTWS) and/or Joint Semi-Automated Forces (JSAF) operator.

Recent experience in joint and naval exercises, war gaming, and exercise/event planning.

Familiarity and solid understanding of the Navy Composite Warfare Commander (CWC) concept, Fleet training policy documents, including the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP), Fleet Response Training Plan (FRTP) and Fleet Training Continuum (FTC).

Master Training Specialist (MTS) qualification.

Target salary range: $60,001 - $100,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618846

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 2,553 open Trainer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$60–100K/yr
  • Virginia median$76–138K/yr65 salary ranges
  • US median$76–130K/yr1,011 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $80K, is 25% below the Virginia median midpoint ($107K) — in the lowest quarter of Trainer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 140 open Trainer jobs in Virginia and 2,553 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Trainer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 1,593 postings).
Education
750 of the 2,553 open Trainer jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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