Job Description
Job Description
Aquila's Cognitive Performance Specialist is responsible for designing and implementing mental skills development programming for a client account.
Salary range: $100,000-$120,000 annually depending on experience and qualifications
Work Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am - 5 pm
Start Date: Sometime between February 2026 - April 2026
Location: in-person, Laurel, MD, with limited travel within DC metro area
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and Disability coverage
- Ten paid vacation days annually
- Five to seven sick days annually
- Paid federal holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Continuing education reimbursements
- Service/tenure bonuses
- Commuter pre-tax benefits
- Fitness retailers discount programs
- 401k plan with company match
- Monday to Friday schedule, no weekend work
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement mental skills development drills and programming for population
- Evaluate the effectiveness of mental performance services
- Attend and participate in Health and Resiliency classes to provide program overviews, classroom educational briefings, and individual training sessions
- Assist with development of curriculum and initiatives for the resiliency program.
- Demonstrate leadership qualities and sound judgement
- Interfaces and assists other client offices, representatives, contractors or entities as requested to promote health, fitness, and wellbeing to all employees
- Meet with client contact as requested
- Tracks participant and program data for measurement of individual and program goal achievement, outcomes and results; creates outcomes focused management reports based on the identified business plan goals and objectives.
- Develops relationships with members, clients and key contract clients to promote goodwill
- Responsible for facilitation of the Aquila internship program when appropriate
- Additional duties and responsibilities as needed.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in clinical counseling or sport psychology or related field
- Current certification as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) preferred
- Ten (10) years of experience working as a Cognitive Performance Specialist with military personnel or professional athletes, which includes a minimum of five (5) years classroom teaching experience
- U.S. Citizenship required (this is a federal agency)
- Must pass a physical training examination
- Must be able to physically push, lift and drag one hundred (100) pounds
- Must be able to work both indoors and outdoors, for extended periods of time in any weather
- Limited travel within DC area may be required
- Must pass a high level security clearance background check process
Job Tags
Contract work, For contractors, Internship, Monday to Friday,