Ready for What's Next? Kratos Defense & Security Solutions develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms, and systems for United States National Security related customers, allies, and commercial enterprises.We proactively build trusted relationships with our peers, partners and customers, and take ownership for our actions-always striving to do the right thing.
Embark on an exciting journey with Kratos, a forward-thinking leader in the realm of cybersecurity and compliance. Kratos is a top Third-Party Assessment Organizations (3PAO) that specializes in providing cutting-edge services to ensure the security and integrity of sensitive information for small to large leading-edge cloud service providers and throughout the defense industrial base.
As a Kratos Training and Development Specialist , you will play a pivotal role leading the development and delivery of comprehensive internal training programs. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of compliance and cybersecurity professionals by working vertically throughout the organization's leadership and delivery teams to envision, own, and implement a program for training success. If you have a knack for effective and efficient training, we invite you to join our team and contribute to the success of our amazing team.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience serving as an assessor. Proven experience as a Training SME with a successful track record of developing and delivering training programs. Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex concepts in a clear and concise manner. Experience working across multiple compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, DoD SRG, HITRUST, etc.) is highly desirable. This isa flexible opportunity for the right candidate - up to 40 hours weekly.
Responsibilities include:

• Develop a strong understanding of existing workflows and execution structures across cybersecurity service offerings.
• Design, develop, and deliver a comprehensive training program focused on team onboarding, cybersecurity service offerings, roles and responsibilities, and deliverable management.
• Create focused training for various individual roles, such as delivery manager, senior assessor, and junior assessor.
• Develop a comprehensive, step-by-step immersive training program to prepare individuals for the role of a junior assessor, senior assessor, and delivery manager.
• Assess training needs, create training materials, and conduct engaging sessions to enhance the skills and knowledge of team members.
• Collaborate with service offering management to develop role-based job aids that enable an informed, efficient workflow execution for all project delivery roles.
• Facilitate the documentation and maintenance of technical reference material to support service offering execution.
• Collaborate with management and staff on training improvement needs, current-role effectiveness and future project-role readiness.
• Lead initiatives to identify, analyze, and optimize existing processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and streamline workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements and monitor their impact on overall organizational performance.
• Increase standardization across service offerings, role execution, and team interaction.
• Integrate training stage gates into the service offerings approach and methodology.
• Document or update workflows and execution structures to align with training.

• Experience as a professional trainer, with a successful track record of developing and delivering training programs.
• Demonstrated experience in creating successful onboarding training programs.
• Detail-oriented with the strong ability to multi-task.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex concepts in a clear and concise manner.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite Products: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint.
• Detail oriented with the strong ability to multi-task.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.

Desired Skills and Experience

• General technology background
• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, and other relevant standards.
• FedRAMP assessment experience.

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Competitive salary based on experience and education - Flexible opportunity - up to 40 hours weekly
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings-from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.