Inzpire - MCAST Littoral Strike Planner

THE COMPANY

We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.

We were recently crowned Employer of the Year at the British Ex‑Forces in Business Awards 2023. We have been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies several times as well as achieving ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world‑class’ for our employee engagement on a number of occasions.

We are also proud to have been honoured with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next‑generation GECO military mission planning system.

As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.

Inzpire’s Maritime Division provides maritime warfare consultancy and expertise, end‑to‑end maritime services and solutions to global clients. We are identifying candidates in an exciting role supporting the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in the delivery of maritime battle staff training.

As the Maritime Command and Staff Trainer (MCAST) Littoral Strike Planner you are a key member within the MCAST team. As such, you will be responsible for advising on and scripting Littoral Strike vignettes for a variety of training audiences, including the writing of or supervision of injects that support this activity. You will be supporting the writing of the EXPLAN for all HQ Commando Forces and Commando Group related exercises and will be expected to contribute to the delivery of Maritime Battle staff specific events.

You will be a key POC for the RM training audience and will be required to help shape training events to fulfil their training objectives. You will also be expected to continue to build and maintain relationships with business partners and prospective business partners of the Company and to positively contribute to other Company business activity.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Support the planning and delivery of battle staff exercises.
• Support the littoral strike lead planner in the design and delivery of littoral focussed battle staff exercises.
• Provide SME input to scenario development.
• Work within EXCEN during exercise delivery, primarily in EXCON, but supporting HICON and SIDECON activity as required.
• Provide dynamic scripting capability during exercises.
• Be part of a professional white force in a multi‑domain environment.
• Provide insightful coaching, mentoring and analysis of the Training Audiences through maritime military scenarios and help present After‑Action Reports to promote effective learning.
• Lead/Support one day vignettes and team events.

We are looking to hire talented, experienced people who are passionate about maritime and amphibious training and implementing modern, engaging collective training services. The successful candidate will be supporting colleagues in delivering core outputs from day one.

We seek applications from those with following experience:

• Royal Marine with significant experience of relevant processes.
• 1* /2
  * Battle staff and/or Unit HQ experience.
• Instructing, coaching and mentoring skills within an RM training environment.
• Currency in Joint / Combined Multi‑Domain Operations.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with a proven ability to multi‑task and prioritise.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with attention to detail and the ability to present information, which is compelling, engaging, and unambiguous.
• Work proactively, seamlessly, constructively, both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent IT skills, to include Office 360.

• Amphibious and Task Group Operations experience.

Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful…