Content Developer

Responsible for researching, gathering, synthesizing, and updating the mission/technical raw content and material from which the course(s) will be built 'and maintained. Responsible for providing subject matter expert (SME) inputs to determining what testing is appropriate and ensuring technical alignment. of assessment items to course objectives when tasked; instructional design structure and psychometric validity remain responsibility of the Instructional Designer and/or Senior Instructional Testing Expert, as applicable to ensure student demonstrates required proficiency.

Follows Government approved configuration control and secure handling procedures for controlled and assessment related materials.

Work Schedule: The coursesbeing supported are active from  M-F. Contract core hours are .

Essential Responsibilities:

The Level 1 Content Developer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Gather and validate raw content appropriate for inclusion in the relevant courses. Document sources/references and assumptions for review.
• Review storyboards to ensure content is reflected appropriately and provide documented technical accuracy comments and disposition inputs as directed.
• Draft or update technical narratives, procedures, and lab/exercise instructions using Government-approved templates/tools as directed.
• Provide SME clarification to Instructional Designers and Graphic Artists to ensure course content reflects technical intent and correct tool/tradecraft behavior.
• Assist in drafting or updating assessment questions/items and rubrics when tasked, ensuring student-facing materials do not contain answer keys or restricted solutions.
• Coordinate submission of updated content to Configuration Management (CM) repositories and support versioning/release note inputs as directed.
• Certifications in areas relevant to the training content areas are desired.
• Research assigned cyber content; build/configure/modify/troubleshoot systems, VMs, networks, scripts, tools, and artifacts used in training/assessment.
• Draft/update technical procedures, labs, demonstrations, practical exercises, and assessment components to team standards.
• Reproduce expected behavior; determine whether systems/networks/programs/exploits/artifacts behave as intended; troubleshoot using logs, pcaps, system artifacts, debugging data, documentation, and experimentation.
• Document dependencies, assumptions, edge cases, failure conditions, and observable artifacts affecting learners or assessment validity.
• Support practical assessments, answer criteria, rubrics, automated grading, and controlled exam material; provide SME input to ISD, facilitators, testing, QA/QC, engineering, and developers.
• Use approved version/configuration-control workflows; complete assigned work to standard, communicate blockers/status, seek guidance as appropriate, and incorporate review feedback.

Security

Clearance Required:

TS/SCI preferred

Minimum Education & Years of

Experience:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Cyber Engineering, Information

Systems/information Technology, Education/Instructional Technology, Electrical Engineering,

Mathematics, or related field and two (2) years of relevant experience

OR

Associate's degree (or 18 semester hours of military coursework/training in a related field) and four (4) years of relevant experience

OR

High school diploma/GED and six (6) years of relevant experience

Relevant experience includes mission/technical content research and development for related training, drafting/updating technical procedures/labs/exercises, and providing SME support to instructional design and course delivery

Minimum Qualifications:

• Hands-on cyber/IT foundation sufficient to build/troubleshoot technical training; instructional-design, LMS, or curriculum experience alone is insufficient.
• Working proficiency in at least one Section 2 specialty; broad mastery is not required.
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar problems using evidence rather than trial-and-error; read/modify and, where appropriate, write relevant scripts/code; reason through execution logic and system interactions.
• Ability to explain behavior and convert it into accurate labs/procedures/demonstrations/practical’s; foundational understanding of relevant OS, network, virtualization, software, and cyber-tradecraft interactions.
• Ability to follow technical standards, accept review, execute reliably, and meet applicable CD1 contract/clearance/education/experience requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong preference: prior operational…