Job opening: Director of Applied Communications and Learning Laboratory
Salary: $127 277 - 146 476 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: May 23 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This is a full-time faculty position as provided under Title 10 USC 4021. Initial appointment may be up to three years, the first of which may be a trial period. Appointment may be renewed in one- to five-year increments thereafter. Academic rank and salary will be based on academic credentials, experience, and professional accomplishments.
Duties
Provide effective and innovative leadership to a team focused on executive communication in an adult learning environment.
Form cohesive and high functioning teams from across the institution; develop an organizational vision and lead efforts to realize that vision.
Directly supervise up to 5 employees and indirectly manage additional contract support personnel.
Provide financial management and oversight of funding and contracts.
Develop and manage programs for developing senior and executive-level communication competencies applied in a national security context.
Engage in outreach; identify best practices; connect and develop relationships with academic, civilian, and military institutions.
Identify opportunities for innovation and experimentation in developing executive communication skills.
Serve as a change agent. Lead efforts aimed at organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development.
Work collaboratively across a wide range of stakeholders to improve communication outcomes across all educational programs.
Teach, conduct research, and provide internal/external service relating to the items described above.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- This position has a travel requirement up to 10% of the time.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
This is a full-time term appointment in the excepted service not to exceed 3 years. Appointment may be extended in one- to five-year increments thereafter. As a term employee you will be eligible for medical insurance, life insurance, retirement, dental and vision. You will be eligible to earn annual leave and sick leave.
Qualification Requirements:
Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position; or Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field; or Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field.
In addition to meeting the Qualification Requirements above, applicants will be rated on the following:
SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR/KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Applicants will be rated on the criteria listed below:
1. Demonstrated skill in leadership and management such as experience with project management, including personnel and financial management.
2. Skill in refined verbal, writing, and visual communication such as, advising senior governmental leaders and assessing and/or developing executive communication.
3. Ability to provide graduate-level professional military education and faculty development in an adult learning environment.
4. Interpersonal skills such as, working collegially with diverse (military, civilian, foreign) graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators; professional network enabling access to academic institutions, think tanks, government agencies, senior military commands, non-governmental organizations, etc.
5. Demonstrated ability as an instructor, curriculum developer, instructional designer, and/or faculty developer, particularly at the graduate or executive level and preferably in a professional military education environment.
6. Ability to advise student and faculty research projects.
7. Academic Accomplishment: Graduate degree in communications or a field relating the curriculum of the Army War College is preferred. A terminal degree is preferred.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address BR-W2H6AA US ARMY WAR COLLEGE
DO NOT MAIL
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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