Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Place of Performance: Aviano Air Base, Italy

General Description:

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist establish and administer effective strength and conditioning protocols to maximize the physical performance of individual AFSPECWAR Operators. These protocols will ensure tactical conditioning by monitoring and resolving performance trends while addressing individual needs. You will provide routine fitness reports to the appointed commander/representative and maintain a professional relationship with the operators’ medical support staff to resolve problem areas outside their scope.

Specific Tasks:

• Coordinate individualized exercise programs with the organization to ensure a safe and expeditious return to training of individuals recovering from injury.
• Design and implement physical training programs to ensure proper functional movement fitness routines for each individual AFSPECWAR Operator to increase energy system development, strength training, and power development.
• Design and monitor physical training programs for personnel who are on temporary duty or deployed.
• Perform routine (once a month) pre and post workout program evaluations on all, that will determine arm/leg/abdomen/hip girth measurements and functional movement screening that will determine AFSPECWAR Operators ability to move efficiently.
• Perform routine (once a quarter) performance testing on all operators that includes the following minimum:

1. AFSPECWAR Operator Fitness Test
2. AFSPECWAR Operator functional movement max performance Fitness Assessments

• Provide instruction and guidance to individuals on physical conditioning and injury
• Refer all personnel under his/her purview with an apparent new or undiagnosed medical condition to a medical provider for evaluation and treatment.
• Shall be required to travel in support of providing services in other than primary location, and to attend conferences and training seminars to maintain knowledge and proficiency of current and best commercial practices, as requested.
• Understand the unit’s mission and operator physical requirements.
• Understand how strength and conditioning impacts mission accomplishment.
• Understand operator scheduling issues and be familiar with training and deployment  cycles.
• Participate in periodic meetings to review and evaluate physical training programs and identify opportunity for improvement.
• Perform administrative duties such as maintaining records of workload.
• Assist with physical conditioning/rehabilitation supply inventories. Provide input to organization regarding supply needs and optimal equipment.
• Ensure equipment and facilities are properly organized and utilized, and are in safe working condition, to include gym equipment, and any additional equipment specified by team lead.
• Advise the Government on layout of the human performance facility.
• Assist in developing facility standard operating procedures, guidelines, and exercise protocols including the safe use of strength and conditioning equipment.
• Collect, analyze, resolve, disseminate, and archive information resulting from products created under this support. You are also required to understand the highly complex DoD culture, policies, and processes, as follows:

1. Collect: Execute active collection to include direct observations,interviews, surveys, and focused collection of strength and conditioning for individuals in the unit. Perform the initial analysis of the collected data and provide direct This requires activities to include but not limited to strength and conditioning testing, evaluating, identifying physical performance trends, and providing feedback for physical performance improvement, injury avoidance, and injury recovery.
2. Analyze: Analyze collected information and research current professional references to facilitate in-depth analyses to determine trends, additional materiel or support requirements, future performance concerns, and other information. Data collection and analyses shall be conducted on an ongoing basis with quarterly reporting. Furthermore, analysis and reporting related to the support will be performed during the training cycle and during pre and post deployment training evolutions. Where applicable, the results of these analyses should identify and prioritize physical training and rehabilitation gaps across the unit with recommendations so that the final product will be able to be disseminated to the correct audience for resolution in accordance with the Government’s guidance. This includes providing any recommended performance training guidance necessary to enhance the operators’ capabilities.
3. Resolve: Recommend mediums and forums to publish findings,characterized as issues or deficiencies that negatively impact the unit’s performance, readiness, training, and procedures.
4. Disseminate: Release findings based on approved recommendations in the form of reports, summaries, publications, and entries into systems of record. Additionally,findings will be incorporated into training, exercises, and operational planning.
5. Archive: Perform updates to applicable databases for trends analysis and historical reference. All information, reports, and products are the property of the government.

Education:

• Must have a Master’s Degree or higher in an accredited exercise science, health science, or physical education-related discipline and shall have a minimum of five years of experience.

Experience:

• Demonstrated sustained experience working with elite athlete populations.
• Creditable specialized experience includes developing long and short-range planning and coordination of specific performance programs resulting in attributable results with elite athletes(i.e. Division I collegiate, Olympic, professional level athletes or SOP-specific tactical professionals).

Certification:

• Must have and maintain current certification by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) or be a Licensed Athletic Trainer.

Skills/Abilities:

• Shall be physically proficient to demonstrate all prescribed exercises and techniques.
• May be asked to attend certain training(s) to better understand SOP performance and injuries – you should be able to hike over rough terrain, function in austere environments, and able to lift and manipulate loads and plates up to 25 kilograms.