Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs

Duties

• Directs the development, execution, and sustainment of the AWC's Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) program. Interprets and applies guidance from higher headquarters, the Joint Staff, and the AWC Commandant to shape curriculum. Approves all core and elective courses and special program elements. Ensures curriculum integration, effective assessment tools, and appropriate learning methodologies. Oversees faculty recruiting, hiring, development, evaluation, and management. Represents AWC at MECC Working Group meetings and other Joint, Air Force, and AU forums. Sets priorities for department chairs and subordinate deans and allocates personnel, time, and resources to meet mission requirements. Advises employees on policies, procedures, and management directives.
• Directs day-to-day work and supports mission accomplishment through a team of civilian and military members. In this capacity, the supervisor performs a full range of first-line supervisory and personnel management responsibilities. The supervisor develops, interprets, and communicates performance standards; assigns work; provides ongoing feedback; and evaluates performance in accordance with established policies. They hold personnel accountable for meeting work requirements and recommend appropriate recognition or approve within-grade increases when warranted. The supervisor identifies developmental needs and arranges for required training to enhance job performance, while encouraging continued professional growth. The supervisor participates in staffing actions by assisting with recruitment activities, interviewing candidates, and recommending selections or promotions based on qualifications, mission needs, and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles. They hear and resolve informal employee concerns, implement minor corrective actions such as verbal warnings or counseling, and recommend more significant actions to higher-level management. The supervisor prepares necessary documentation, approves leave, and manages work schedules to ensure adequate mission coverage. The supervisor fosters a work environment that encourages communication, collaboration, and employee participation in support of mission objectives. They ensure compliance with security and safety directives, apply EEO principles in all personnel actions, maintain a workplace free of discrimination, and address conditions that may pose safety or health risks.
  
• Teaches, lectures, and supports research across AWC curriculum areas such as leadership, warfighting, strategy, national security, regional expertise, and global security. Advises and supervises student research, including coursework, projects, and Professional Studies Papers. Provides detailed feedback and documents student progress in core and elective courses. Engages in professional outreach aligned with AWC curriculum. Supports faculty scholarship, including publication of articles, monographs, and reviews in academic and professional outlets. Participates in professional development with PME institutions, DoD organizations, universities, and scholarly associations. Delivers lectures, seminars, and panel contributions at AWC and external institutions. Maintains academic currency through literature review, association participation, and support to AU events and conferences.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal and Regulatory Guide
• A top-secret security clearance is required
• You may qualify for moving expenses if authorized and may be covered using PCS, Recruitment or Relocation Incentive in accordance with agency policy
• Position is subject to random drug testing.
• Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends and/or holidays
• This job is being filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service. This is an Administratively Determined position in the excepted service.
• Depending on the type of position (competitive/excepted) you are selected for, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period.
• Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
• A one (1) year supervisory probationary period is required if applicant selected has not previously met this requirement.

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of the subject matter that comprises the JPME curricula, including strategic leadership; military history; great power competition; grand strategy; national and international security structures and strategy; organization, capabilities and limitations of US and allied armed forces; joint planning processes and products.
• Ability to effectively lead graduate-level faculty and direct subordinate leaders in the development of a complex academic requirements.
• Knowledge of scholarly research methods and the ability facilitate faculty inquiry and publication in academic venues.
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, execute and evaluate JPME processes and procedures.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with a wide range of diverse groups of people.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions of a military organization and to mentor, motivate, and appraise the staff of the organization.
• Knowledge of health, safety, security, personnel management, and EEO regulations, practices, and procedures.
• Significant teaching and administrative experience in JPME at the graduate level in a field relevant to the AWC curriculum, including the ability to develop curriculum and present the material at the graduate level, is highly desired.

Education

Ph.D. in Strategic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Military History, Leadership, or other field closely related to national security, is required.

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are required at the time of application by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click to check accreditation.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

Additional information

The position will be an initial three-year appointment with the potential for continued reappointment for additional 1-5-year terms. This position is subject to Air University's tenure and promotion policy; this position is tenure-track eligible.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click . To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated in the "Highly Qualified" or "Best Qualified" Category on the rating criteria for this vacancy. You must submit a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location.

Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click for more information.

Current Federal Civilian employees may apply for temporary and term positions and if selected, a break in service may be required prior to appointment to the position.

Temporary and Term Appointments: If you are selected for a temporary or term position in the competitive service, your appointment may be extended to the maximum period allowed by law without further competition.

120-Day Register: This announcement may result in a 120-day register that may be used to fill like vacancies for 120 days after the closing date. Applicants may be referred for consideration as vacancies occur.

Selective Service: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. For additional information, click .

Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.

Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives may or may not be used.

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