Special Tactics Instructor - Sniper Operations Specialist

Special Tactics Instructor - Sniper Operations Specialist

Job Category: Operations

Requisition Number: SPECI
001768

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• Posted :
  January 5, 2026
• Full-Time

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- Stone Bay, NC
400 Rifle Range Road
Stone Bay, NC 28445, USA

- Stone Bay, NC
400 Rifle Range Road
Stone Bay, NC 28445, USA

Innovative Reasoning, LLC is recruiting for an Instructor/Subject Matter Expert, specializing in Sniper Operations, in the instruction of close quarters tactics and advanced weapons handling.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Assist the Expeditionary Operations Training Group (EOTG) lead military instructor with planning, coordination, and development of course material and exercise design.
• Ensure courses are nested and aligned with Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) level objectives.
• Conduct briefings as required to key leaders, up to MEF Commander, to ensure course focus is consistent with current demand.
• Develop and teach classes for maritime sniper employment in support or Maritime Interception Operation and Visit, board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS).
• Assist with teaching and evaluating VBSS tactics and maritime sniper employment.
• Assist with teaching and evaluating reconnaissance and surveillance teams during EOTG courses and Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) exercises in:
  • conducting patrolling,
  • amphibious reconnaissance,
  • ground reconnaissance, and
  • battlespace shaping operations.
• Assist in planning, coordination, and execution of scenario-based training objectives within MEU Pre-deployment Training Plan (PTP).
• Serve as instructor/evaluator during pre-deployment certification exercises.
• Develop and teach classes focused on:
  • close quarters tactics,
  • close target reconnaissance and surveillance,
  • marksmanship with a rifle and pistol,
  • advanced breaching.
• Assist with teaching and evaluating:
  • close quarters tactics.
• Develop and teach classes focused on:
  • advanced sniper skills (day and night),
  • urban environment,
  • advanced urban reconnaissance and surveillance,
  • urban field craft,
  • vehicle hides,
  • sniper-initiated assault,
  • breaking down the battlefield,
  • heliborne sniper operations.
• Assist in planning, coordination, and execution of training courses and generating After Action Reports (AARs).

Supplemental Duties:

• From time to time serve as a Range Safety Officer during the conduct or live fire training or exercises.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Education/Qualifications and

Certifications:

• Successful completion of at least one (1) of the following courses, as evidenced by an appropriate certificate of completion:
  • USMC Scout Sniper Course,
  • Reconnaissance Sniper Course,
  • MARSOF Advanced Sniper Course, or
  • US Army Special Forces Sniper Course.

Experience:

• Honorably discharged (DD214 verification required), prior Staff Non-Commissioned (SNCO) or above in the U.S. Armed Forces.
• Promotion to the grade of E-7 or greater.
• Held the USMC MOS of Scout Sniper (0317/8541), Reconnaissance Sniper (0322), or USASOC Equivalent (W-3).
• No more than five (5) years removed from active duty or contract assignment teaching or applying advanced weapons handling tactics and marksmanship techniques in permissive, semi-permissive, and non-permissive environments.
• Four (4) years of experience conducting reconnaissance and surveillance operations in permissive and semi-permissive environments.
• Minimum of sixteen (16) years of Special Operations Forces (SOF) experience, or equivalent.
• Served a minimum of three (3) years in the capacity of a Platoon Sergeant or Team Chief for a deployable unit.
• Three (3) years’ experience as an instructor at a USMC formal school, SOTG/EOTG, or a Joint Service, Interagency, or Civilian equivalent.
• Three (3) years of experience in teaching advanced marksmanship, sniper employment and terminal ballistics with bolt action and semi-automatic rifle in a DOD or civilian capacity.
• Knowledge and experience in scouting and patrolling.
• Expert Knowledge on how to operate precision weapon systems (e.g., M110 SASS, M40A(x), M107 SASR).
• Expert Knowledge on how to operate military weapons to include standard small arms (e.g., M16, M4, HK416, M18).
• User-type knowledge of field communications equipment, specifically AN/PRC-148, AN/PRC-152, AN/PRC-153, and other military communication…