CTN - Curriculum/Instructional Design Specialist

BlueForce Inc. is seeking a Curriculum/Instructional Design Specialist to provide curriculum development, instructional design, training-development, and learning-assessment expertise in support of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) under the DoD/DoW Counter Narcotics & Global Threats (CN>) program.

*Position is subject to contract award*

* The role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S.*

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage comprehensive cybersecurity curricula, including courses, modules, lessons, learning pathways, and training programs aligned with mission requirements and organizational objectives.
• Define learning objectives, competencies, prerequisites, and measurable outcomes and ensure curriculum content, instructional activities, and assessments are properly aligned.
• Apply instructional design methodologies such as ADDIE, SAM, or similar models and adult-learning principles to develop effective instructor-led, hands-on, scenario-based, laboratory, workshop, tabletop, and blended-learning experiences.
• Integrate and coordinate subject-matter-expert (SME) content across Cyber Governance, Cyber Operations, Digital Forensics, Law Enforcement Integration, and other technical disciplines into cohesive, accurate, and non-duplicative training.
• Develop and maintain professional training materials, including course outlines, lesson plans, instructor and student guides, presentations, practical exercises, laboratory instructions, case studies, scenarios, job aids, and reference materials.
• Design and implement knowledge, skills, and performance assessments, including knowledge checks, examinations, practical evaluations, and performance-based assessments aligned with defined competencies and learning objectives.
• Evaluate training effectiveness and analyze assessment results to identify learning gaps, measure student performance, and recommend curriculum improvements.
• Establish and maintain curriculum quality assurance standards, conducting regular reviews to ensure instructional materials are accurate, consistent, current, clear, and aligned with technical and mission requirements.
• Maintain curriculum documentation, traceability, revision histories, and curriculum maps to establish relationships among requirements, learning objectives, instructional content, activities, competencies, and assessments.
• Develop integrated cybersecurity training pathways that identify course prerequisites and dependencies, connect multiple technical disciplines, and support broader organizational and partner-nation cybersecurity capability objectives.
• Travel to The Bahamas for short-duration temporary duty assignments, as required.