Cognitive Enhancement Advisor

We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world aroundus, but also on us, andthat’simportant.

We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge wecan’tturn into opportunity. And our work depends on aCognitive Enhancement Practitioner joining our team to support customer activities.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator.

As aCognitive Enhancement Advisor supporting our customer, you will be trusted toprovide clinical support.

The Cognitive Enhancement Advisor provides advanced cognitive performance training, assessment, and program development to enhance mental, emotional, and neurocognitive readiness. The CEA applies evidence‑based psychological, neurocognitive, and psycho-physiological methods to improve attention, working memory, emotional regulation, adaptive thinking, stress management, and decision‑making in high‑pressure environments. This role includes designing and delivering individual and group training, advising leadership on cognitive performance strategies, and supporting research and evaluation initiatives.

• Serves as the unit’s senior cognitive performance technical expert, advises leadership and stakeholders on all aspects of the cognitive performance program, recommends cognitive performance training priorities, and works with unit personnel to expand and embed cognitive performance initiatives into unit training.

• Serve as a unit’s cognitive program manager with duties including but not limited to:
  • Identify and recommend mission specific cognitive priorities
  • Develop appropriate training materials and techniques, which may be individual, group-based, or embedded within unit training events
  • Establish and maintain relationships with unit leadership and training personnel to ensure continued utilization of Cognitive personnel and training
  • Advise unit leadership on matters relating to cognitive performance and performance psychology
  • Identify, track, and monitor unit specific metrics to ensure program effectiveness
• Train and educate active-duty personnel in specific cognitive and behavioral skills to enhance cognitive/psychological performance to include attention/concentration training, problem solving training, emotional regulation, energy management, memory enhancement, interpersonal skills, goal-setting, and related cognitive deficits, or compensatory mechanisms. Training shall utilize evidence-based practices and occur in both individual and group settings.
• Lead individual, group, and/or embedded training sessions as desired by unit. Provide educational briefings to units and commands on the cognitive performance program, biofeedback, psychophysiology, sleep, self-regulation, attention, and other cognitive functions as needed. If qualified, provide executive coaching as directed by the POTFF Program Manager/Coordinator or Government Lead.
• Provide biofeedback and/or neurofeedback training as directed by POTFF Program Manager/Coordinator or Government Lead with active-duty service members to enhance cognitive/psychological performance and / or psychophysiology. Advise unit leadership on matters relating to cognitive performance and performance psychology. Support appropriate and approved research conducted under supervision psycho-physiological, cognitive, and/or psychological performance research conducted under supervision of the POTFF Program Manager/Coordinator or Government Lead.
  
  Provide educational briefings to units and commands on a range of cognitive/psychological performance domains.

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