Senior Lecturer @ Defense Security Cooperation Agency

Job Summary

This position is part of the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU),

Qualifications

• This is a full-time term appointment in the excepted service not to exceed (NTE) three (3) years.
• Term appointments may be extended thereafter in one, two, or three year increments, indefinitely.
• As a term employee you will be eligible for medical and dental benefits, life insurance, and retirement.
• You will also be eligible to earn annual leave and sick leave.

You may qualify at the AD-05, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

• 1. 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.
• 2. Ten (10) years of experience with practice, training, or study of security cooperation or related field. 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.
• 3. 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.

*Note: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

• Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
• Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
• You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Major Duties

• As a Senior Lecturer at the AD-1701-5 some of your typical work assignments may include: Serves as subject matter expert practitioners in their respective disciplines and primarily support the University's education and training missions, while also contributing to the University's research, analysis, and lessons learned activities.
• Prepare education and training programs, provide expertise to U.S. officials, and conduct research and analysis to inform security cooperation practice.
• Envision and develop major segments of the curriculum program to include planning, developing course materials, readings, and other instructional resources in accordance with DSCU curriculum development standards and processes.
• Delivers educational content and operates as solo instructors as well as lead for ad hoc faculty teams in the delivery of education programs depending on requirements.
• Assesses performance in achieving learning objectives, to include preparation of written program evaluations.
• Provides advice in areas of expertise to DSCU faculty and students to facilitate and demonstrate an understanding of and a capacity for scholarship, independent judgement, academic rigor, and intellectual honesty.
• Participates in DSCU shared-governance to support the academic mission of the University in its use of technology and services impacting teaching, learning, research, advising, and scholarship.