Law Enforcement Officer (Leo) / Forensic Child Interviewer (Fci) Instructor

The Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) / Forensic Child Interviewer (FCI) Instructor will provide training on how to properly conduct FCIs with child victims and witnesses to traumatic events. 
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) guidelines.
• Instruct Department of Defense (DoD) criminal investigators and Military Treatment Facility (MTF) Social Workers on NICHD guidelines.
• Maximize knowledge retention of the students through free-recall memory by using open-ended questions.
• Provide comprehensive instruction as it is utilized in the investigation of sexual assault and child abuse in a manner that most effectively meets the needs of both internal and external parties involved.
• Provide research-based guidelines to the students.
• Develop and issue FCI-LEO educational content including notes, tests, and assignments.
• Supervise class to ensure all students are learning in a safe and productive environment.
• Deliver personalized instruction to each student by encouraging interactive learning.
• Ensure the classroom is clean and orderly.
• Evaluate and document students’ progress.
• Allocate and grade homework, assignments, and tests.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• BA or BS in Teaching, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of Law Enforcement and Forensic Child Interviewer experience.
• U.S. citizen; able to read, write, speak, and understand English; have above-average Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience in NICHD child forensic interview training.
• Experience in working directly with attorneys, investigators, juvenile justice centers and legal systems in the civilian and military sector.
• Thorough knowledge of civil and criminal court proceedings.
• Introductory through advanced levels of understanding of PSB-CY.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to teach, promote, and facilitate a team investigation approach of abuse cases and the instruction to personnel responding to cases that involve various abuses.
• Ability to provide instruction to students working directly with attorneys, investigators, juvenile justice centers and legal systems at all levels.
• Ability to facilitate an advanced level of knowledge to civilian and military Law Enforcement Officer, special agents, firsts responders and supporting personnel concerning the importance of documentation preparation, coordinated response, and handling complex investigations involving children and families.
• Ability to provide comprehensive instruction as it is utilized in investigation of sexual assault and childe abuse in a manner that most effectively meets the needs of both internal and external parties involved, the understanding of state, local, and federal policies as well as the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
• Ability to ensure the understanding of the importance of parental engagement to address PSB-CY.
• Ability to collaboratively teach as part of a team. 
• Ability to multi-task in a high-stress, complex performance-based environment.
• Ability to establish priorities and meet established deadlines.
• Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands, and/or fingers.  The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.)

• The employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.
• During periods of instruction, may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions.  Is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.

Chenega Corporation and its family of companies are an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
We participate in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.