Instructional and Exercise Task Lead

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated, mission-focused professional to lead instructional and exercise-support services for a federal customer within the Intelligence Community. The Task 3 Lead serves as the senior manager for all training, learning, exercises, and professional development activities under the contract, ensuring seamless delivery of instructor-led, virtual, and web-based learning solutions across multiple customer offices. Reporting directly to the Service Delivery Manager, the Task 3 Lead oversees a team of instructors and instructional systems designers, manages the full training lifecycle, and ensures alignment with customer requirements, learning objectives, and security standards.

This role is central to workforce readiness, instructional quality, and continuous improvement of learning products and methodologies supporting the customer.

• Provide day-to‑day leadership, direction, and mentorship to instructors, instructional systems designers, and support staff.
• Ensure training and exercise activities meet quality, timeliness, and security standards established by the customer and the contract.
• Implement performance metrics and continuous‑improvement initiatives to enhance learning effectiveness and program efficiency.

• Lead the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of instructor‑led, virtual, and web‑based training programs across multiple customer offices and mission areas.
• Oversee curriculum planning, lesson design, and learning‑content development to ensure accuracy, relevance, and compliance with tradecraft, policy, and classification standards.
• Manage the full training lifecycle (i.e., training needs analysis, content design, curriculum development, instructional delivery, training evaluation, and annual curriculum reviews) by applying adult‑learning principles and evidence‑based methodologies.
• Supervise instructional staff and training coordinators to ensure consistent instructional quality and resource coverage.
• Collaborate with the customer to archive and maintain courseware, job aids, and web‑based learning modules in approved repositories.
• Ensure all products are consistent with government‑approved programs of instructional standards that prioritize accessibility to resources (per EO 14035).

• Plan, design, and support the execution of exercises, simulations, and scenario‑based learning events when directed by the Government.
• Manage development of exercise objectives, materials, and participant roles, and facilitate after‑action reviews to capture lessons learned and performance insights.
• Maintain readiness to reinitiate or expand exercise activities in support of evolving customer mission needs.

• Serve as the primary liaison to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Technical Point of Contact (TPOC), and other Government stakeholders for all Task 3 matters.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting on training throughput, satisfaction scores, risks, and corrective actions.
• Contribute to monthly status reports, Service Level Agreement metrics, and Award Fee evaluations by highlighting achievements, efficiencies, and innovations within Task 3.

• Position requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Instructional Systems Design, Organizational Leadership, Intelligence Studies, or a related field.
• 12+ years of combined experience, including 6 years of management‑level responsibility.
• Experience working with federal civilian agencies, departments, or the Intelligence Community.
• Demonstrated experience leading instructor‑led, virtual, and web‑based training programs with measurable performance outcomes.
• Proven ability to supervise instructors, instructional designers, and training coordinators while managing multiple concurrent learning activities.
• Expertise in adult‑learning principles, curriculum development, and instructional‑delivery methodologies.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to interact…