OCO Cyber Instructor Developer

Overview

Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client.

The OCO Cyber Instructor Developer plays a vital role with the client, providing the technical skills necessary to conduct Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO). Leveraging operational expertise and advanced instructional design methodologies, the instructor developer develops and delivers engaging, high-impact training programs that simulate real‑world attack scenarios, techniques, and adversarial tactics to prepare trainees for operational challenges in cyberspace.

This position aligns with Cayuse’s core values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by fostering technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality in deliverables.

• Deliver instructor‑led training and/or develop instructional content in support of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) per approved curriculum and standards.
• Develop, update, and maintain lesson plans, courseware, training materials, and hands‑on lab content aligned to the Cyber Instructor/Developer labor category.
• Facilitate hands‑on labs, exercises, or scenarios that reinforce learning objectives.
• Assess student performance and provide feedback consistent with course standards.
• Apply cyber‑related knowledge areas outlined in the labor category (e.g., command line interfaces across operating systems; host/network analysis; forensic analysis; scripting languages; terrain mapping; network fundamentals).
• Support training content and delivery consistent with familiarity of cyberspace defense actions and missions supporting USCYBERCOM (as applicable to the course/missions supported).
• Support expeditionary/tactical communications topics and practical application consistent with the labor category experience requirements (as applicable).
• Maintain required instructor podium hours and required certifications associated with the labor category level (Journeyman/Senior/SME).
• Augment and support the client in course planning and development, including all formal training courses, lessons, and related courseware material, developing curriculum IAW applicable Master Training Task List (MTTL) and Training Task List (TTL) requirements, and auditing and editing all developed courseware for accuracy, completeness, flow, balance, and clarity of understanding IAW 39 IOS SOPs/Instructions/OIs, ACC Instructions, and Joint Directives.
• Provide associated documentation for design, development, revision, and administration of FTU training.
• Utilize the ISD ADDIE Model, along with Bloom's taxonomy level of learning and/or the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition (SAMR) Model for all course development.
• Assist in the development of Training Systems Requirements Analysis to include Mission/Task Analysis (MTA), Training Requirements Analysis (TRA), Objective Media Analysis (OMA), and Training Systems Basis Analysis (TSBA).
• Provide instructional strategies, methods, media analysis, objective analysis media and a syllabus/course map.
• Assist in the analysis of all tasks performed in the operation and maintenance of course materials; and assist in producing a MTTL for each mission area.
• Analyze Task Analysis Worksheets to ensure training requirements are derived by identifying TTL and knowledge, Qualifications, and abilities (KSA) needed to perform each task and comparing the entry level of learning to the required Bloom's taxonomy level of learning.
• Work with colleges/universities, institutions, industry, or other agencies to identify and implement new information applicable to specific courses (or lessons).
• Review all guidance, technical documents, and manuals to ensure they effectively enable personnel to utilize training systems in instruction.
• Assess and analyze training needs through surveys, interviews with staff members, student feedback, training needs analysis, customer site visits, and training planning team direction, and recommend changes to improve existing curriculum.
• Work with internal and external SMEs to incorporate new material developed by SMEs into current or new courseware.
• Utilize ADDIE for…