Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. (YSG) is seeking a highly qualified Instructional Systems Designer (ISD) comprehensive Warfighter Training Support Services at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The purpose of this position is to support the planning, development, execution, management, and evaluation of military training for approximately 4,200 cadets annually during both the academic year and summer training programs. This position will assist the USAFA in delivering a coherent, progressive, and operationally relevant 47-month cumulative military training continuum aligned with Department of the Air Force (DAF) readiness objectives, Joint Force expectations, and USAFA cadet development outcomes.  

Specific duties may include, but are not limited to: 

• Converts Government outcomes into executable courseware, unit plans, training products, scenarios, and remediation pathways.
• Conducts analytical review of existing and available Program of Instruction (POI), courseware, lesson materials, exercise scenarios, training schedules, TLOs, ELOs, primary tasks and objectives, evaluation criteria, recurring training events, historical planning products, and after-action inputs.
• Connect objectives and courseware to resource requirements.
• Working with USAFA and other team members to ensure courseware, planning assumptions, support resources, and evaluation requirements remain synchronized.
• Assess training objectives, event scope, scenario requirements, desired warfighter behaviors and execution assumptions to determine required facilities, training areas, ranges, equipment, TADSS, instructor staffing, support staffing, transportation, sustainment, and safety resources.
• Develop and maintain resource profiles for recurring, modified, and emerging scenarios.
• Support objective-to-resource alignment and ensures training design remains executable within identified constraints.
• Provide design, assessment, data, and digital workflow support that may be delivered through local presence, remote support, travel-supported engagement, or corporate reach-back based on mission need, talent availability, security/access requirements, and Government-approved coordination.
• Embed assessment instruments within Instructional Unit Plans.
• Use assessment data and other inputs to inform courseware updates, scenario refinements, remediation pathways, instructor preparation, dashboard reporting, and annual program recommendations. 

Required Qualifications:

• Must possess 5 – 8 years’ experience as an ISD practitioner.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Education, Training, Instructional Technologies, or a related field. 
• Requires instructional design, courseware development, scenario/lesson plan support, Moodle/TUTOR content alignment, assessment integration, and stakeholder coordination.
• Demonstrated experience developing and overseeing curriculum, lesson plans, Programs of Instruction (POIs), and assessment frameworks. 
• Demonstrated experience supporting program evaluation, After Action Reviews (AARs), and data-driven improvement initiatives. 
• Experience using the ADDIE methodology for instructional design. 
• An Instructional Systems Design (ISD) certificate is desired. 

Clearance: Must be able to obtain a SECRET security clearance. 

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Travel: Some travel will be required

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Yorktown Systems Group, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, are a committed team of dedicated former military and civilian professionals who believe in providing ethical and quality services to Government customers. Our leadership team is composed primarily of Veterans who are now serving in a corporate environment rather than in uniform. Our customer's missions become our own and we are committed to working as a team to achieve success. Because of the depth and experiences of our corporate leadership, we can assure all our customers that "we will do what we say we can do" and will focus on our customer's missions rather than corporate goals. Our business model is based on a personal commitment from our leaders to maintain contact with our customers to continually and consistently gauge our performance. Yorktown Systems Group was founded on the idea that providing quality and ethical services with a laser focus on our customer's goals is an effective long-term business model. Our mission, therefore, is to help our customers meet their requirements and goals. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This provision shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of such employee's essential job functions discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless such disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or is consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. The Unconventional, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yorktown Systems Group, Inc.

EEO STATEMENT Yorktown Systems Group, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No employee or applicant for employment is denied equal opportunity because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, any other non-merit-based factor, or other characteristics protected by law. As part of the company's equal employment opportunity policy, Yorktown Systems Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, will also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities. The Unconventional, LLC. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yorktown Systems Group, Inc.