CTN - Senior Cyber Governance SME

BlueForce Inc. is seeking a Senior Cyber Governance SME to provide senior level cybersecurity governance expertise, training, instruction and mentoring in support of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) under the DoD/DOW Counter Narcotics & Global Threats (CN>) program.

*Position is subject to contract award*

* The role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S.*

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of national-level cybersecurity governance and cyber defense curricula, establishing learning objectives, competencies, training pathways, and performance standards.
• Integrate cybersecurity governance, risk management, cyber defense, incident response, threat detection, and digital forensics into cohesive training and capability-development programs.
• Ensure curricula and training programs align with cybersecurity priorities, operational requirements, emerging threats, workforce needs, and identified capability gaps.  
• Develop and deliver comprehensive training products and instruction, including instructor guides, student materials, practical exercises, scenarios, assessments, and workshops.
• Coordinate cybersecurity training and capability-development efforts promoting common standards, interoperability, information sharing, and coordinated cyber incident response.
• Serve as a senior partner-nation engagement lead to identify workforce requirements, capability gaps, and training priorities.
• Translate partner-nation requirements into actionable training, mentoring, curriculum, and capability-development initiatives, representing program objectives during senior-level meetings, exercises, and cybersecurity engagements.
• Advise partner-nation leadership on cybersecurity governance, including policies, standards, risk management, organizational maturity, controls, compliance, and integration with operational cyber defense capabilities.
• Assess and develop partner-nation cybersecurity capabilities and workforce competencies, conducting baseline and follow-on assessments and recommending targeted training, mentoring, organizational improvements, and capability-development roadmaps.
• Track progress toward national cybersecurity capability objectives and provide senior-level assessments, briefings, reports, and recommendations to government and mission-partner leadership.
• Travel to The Bahamas for short-duration temporary duty assignments, as required.

• U.S. citizen.
• Training: Formal coursework in cyber policy and governance; NIST and ISO governance frameworks; and interagency coordination training.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in national-level cyber governance, policy development, or interagency cyber programs, to include experience working with partner nations, foreign governments, or international cybersecurity capacity-building initiatives.
• Certifications: One or more of the following: CISSP, CISM and/or CGRC (formerly CAP) ideal.
• International Engagement: Demonstrated experience providing international training or international engagement. Work experience must include delivering training in low-resource environments.
• Training Delivery: Demonstrated ability to tailor complex cyber governance, policy, and security concepts for non-technical audiences, particularly law enforcement, government, policy, and governance stakeholders.
• Communication & Deliverables: Demonstrated experience briefing leadership and decision makers. Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to develop professional reports, training materials, policy products, briefings, and other program deliverables for government and interagency audiences.
• Travel: Ability and willingness to travel to OCONUS for short-duration temporary duty assignments.

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL or PMP certification.