SENIOR LECTURER

Duties

As a SENIOR LECTURER at the AD-1701-5 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Plan, design, coordinate, and report on the execution of advising engagements with foreign partner nation officials.
• Provide advice to University leadership, to fellow faculty, and throughout the SC enterprise in areas of expertise.
• Develops alternative courses of study, assesses proposed curriculum changes, and provides recommendations to DSCU leadership.
• Serves as an Assistant Professors of Practice developing and teaching advanced, tailored instruction to prepare students to analyze, design, and assess programs that develop warfighting and institutional capabilities in partner nations.
• Prepares and delivers lectures, seminars, advising, and instruction in assigned areas, either functional, geographic, or both.
• Assesses needs and gaps and makes recommendations on instructional solutions.
• Provides academic advice to DSCU students to facilitate an understanding of and a capacity for scholarship, independent judgment, academic rigor, and intellectual honesty.
• Develops course curriculum and advising materials; assess course materials or advising plans and programs created by other faculty and faculty teams; plan, coordinate, and engage with partner countries in mobile courses and/or advising projects.
• Sustains and develops academic expertise through participation within and contributions to the community of practice and discipline.
• Participate in academic or professional research to create knowledge or solutions related to security cooperation and ICB topics and to the more specialized topics of the practice area/discipline.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Occasional Travel
• Work Schedule: Full-time
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible

Qualifications

Applicants must possess the following:

• Master's degree from a regionally or nationally accredited institution of higher education (or international equivalent) in an appropriate social science or related discipline that is relevant to the DSCU mission.
• Ten (10) years of experience with the practice, training, or study of security cooperation.
• Experience in government, military, private sector, or academia shall be of sufficient depth or breadth as to establish professional expertise in leadership, management, planning, and execution tasks.
• Significant intellectual contributions to practice in areas of expertise through developing or revising policy, doctrine, analytic, or instructional materials, publications in peer reviewed publications, or invited presentations to professional, public, or academic audiences.

Education

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:

Additional information

Other Notes:
RE-EMPLOYED ANNUITANT: This position DOES NOT meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at:

All applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement.

This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs: This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information:

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see )