Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor - Warfighting Studies

es Department of the Air Force U.S. Air Force Academy Apply Print Share Save Summary This job is open to Duties Requirements How you will be evaluated Required documents How to apply Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below for IMPORTANT information. Learn more about this agency Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below for IMPORTANT information. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applications Location Few vacancies in the following location: Air Force Academy, CO No matching locations found.

Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocation expenses reimbursed No Salary $85,423 - $168,838 per year Pay scale & grade AD 21 - 24 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Term - 31-MAY-2030 Occupations and job series 1701 General Education And Training Supervisory status No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance .

The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-40GSAW Control number 887394000 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Clarification from the agency Applications accepted from current U.S. Citizens (either by birth or naturalization).

Duties

Help Major Duties of the Position: Instructor (AD-21): Deliver structured undergraduate general-education instruction within the common curriculum under academic direction. Select and adapt approved instructional materials consistent with common course objectives, evaluate student performance, provide academic advising, maintain professional currency, and participate in assigned course-team, School, and Academy service. Assistant Professor (AD-22): Deliver and assess undergraduate courses within the common curriculum and contribute to their planning and continuous improvement. Assume increasing course leadership and coordination responsibilities, such as serving as a Course Director.

Maintain appropriate scholarly or professional engagement while contributing to course teams, School service, and interdisciplinary integration. Associate Professor (AD-23): Provide sustained teaching excellence and lead major multi-section courses or significant curriculum components. Maintain sustained scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission. Lead course-team and School-level curriculum and assessment efforts and actively mentor junior faculty.

Professor (AD-24 - Nonsupervisory): Provide distinguished instruction and senior academic leadership in the design, integration, and continuous improvement of the common curriculum. Maintain mature scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission. Lead major School- and institution-level academic initiatives and mentor and develop faculty colleagues across academic areas. The School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS) provides the common core academic education upon which later specialized disciplinary education builds.

It forms cadets as Citizens, Leaders, Warfighters, and Scholars. The SIGS curriculum integrates civics, humanities, arts, and social sciences (CHASS), STEM and Artificial Intelligence, and Warfighting threads. Faculty work across conventional disciplinary boundaries to build a rigorous, ordered, and mission-aligned general education for future Air Force and Space Force officers. The Warfighting thread prepares cadets for the high-end fight through a coherent developmental curriculum rather than separate courses in tactics, operations, and strategy.

It builds a cumulative Airman and Guardian mental model: how air, space, and cyber combine with joint and multidomain effects; how tactical actions create operational effects; and how campaigns and strategy serve constitutional authority, political purpose, and the national interest. Military theory and history, contemporary operations, emerging technologies, and immersive wargaming are integrated so cadets repeatedly test and refine their judgment against adaptive adversaries. These are teaching-centered positions. SIGS seeks educators who work beyond a single specialty; connect theory, history, tactics, operations, strategy, technology, human judgment, ethics, law, policy, and national purpose; and cultivate an Airman and Guardian perspective while remaining fully joint.

Faculty should prepare cadets to decide well in contested, high-consequence environments. Scholarly, operational, and professional activity supports this mission, but the paramount purpose of these positions is excellent undergraduate teaching and related service supporting a coherent, integrated Warfighting thread.

Requirements

Help Conditions of employment U.S. Citizenship is required The selected candidate will be subject to a security investigation leading to successful completion of a background investigation with a favorable adjudication. The selectee's failure to meet this requirement will be grounds for termination. Essential qualities expected of every faculty member include the personal attributes of integrity, industry, cooperation, initiative, and breadth of intellectual interests.

Master’s or Terminal Degree commensurate with academic rank sought. The salary shown is the minimum (Annual) amount to be paid and may be set higher commensurate with individual's qualifications and experience. You will be required to serve a 1-year trial period. As a condition of employment, male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

For additional information go to: http://www.sss.gov 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.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Successful candidates should demonstrate, at a level appropriate to the rank sought: - A Masters or Terminal Degree - Academic or professional expertise relevant to contemporary warfighting together with broad judgment beyond a narrow specialty. - Ability to build cadet understanding across tactical, operational, and strategic levels as one coherent warfighting system. - Ability to cultivate an Airman and Guardian perspective while integrating joint and multidomain effects. - Knowledge of high-end conflict, including sensing, autonomy, contested space, cyber and electronic warfare, long-range effects, contested command and control, and AI. - Ability to design or employ immersive wargaming, simulations, digital environments, decision exercises, and after-action processes integrating adversary behavior, technology, theory, strategy, and national purpose. - Knowledge of effective undergraduate teaching and ability to collaborate across disciplines and professional communities while maintaining academic, operational, and professional currency. Associate Professors and Professors should additionally demonstrate progressively greater academic leadership. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Relevant fields may include military, war, strategic, security, or national-security studies; military history; international relations; political science; defense policy; airpower; spacepower; cyber; AI; autonomous systems; electronic warfare; information operations; intelligence; operational planning or art; joint operations; wargaming; modeling and simulation; operations research; military innovation; defense technology; logistics; acquisition; professional military education; or another closely related field supporting Warfighting. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Excellent undergraduate, graduate, or professional military teaching, especially in interdisciplinary or applied settings. - Experience with military theory or history, strategy, operational art, joint or all-domain operations, airpower, spacepower, cyber, or related fields. - Experience designing or employing immersive wargaming, scenario-based instruction, simulation, digital operational environments, decision exercises, or comparable experiential learning. - Experience with high-end warfighting, adaptive adversaries, or emerging technologies such as AI, autonomy, contested space, cyber, or electronic warfare. - Relevant operational, command or staff, government, defense, intelligence, industry, professional military education, curriculum-de