PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE

Summary

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Duties

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• You will teach seminars in the 7200-series Operational Planning Line of Education.
• You will supervise, mentor, and evaluate planning problems, briefs, written products, wargames, decision games, and other adult learning activities.
• You will mentor Future War Master's Thesis papers and provide feedback on student assignments linked to applied learning activities.
• You will design new curriculum informed by joint, service, combined, and competitor doctrine; recent operational experience; red teaming/alternative analysis techniques; and force modernization programs.
• You will coordinate, administer, and execute applied learning events such as planning exercises, war games, and staff rides.
• You will maintain an network of military professionals across the services and in the joint community to ensure access to the latest classified, unclassified and CUI documents on concepts, capabilities, and modernization activities.
• You will represent School of Advanced Warfighting at key forums, professional organization meetings, and public hearings
• You will develops, supervises, and evaluates graduate-level course of instruction designed to meet learning outcomes established by the faculty and approved by Marine Corps University leadership.
• You will ensure course materials are current, relevant, and responsive to the needs of the student body. Conducts the Course Content Review board for his/her course.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Top Secret SCI security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This is a Mission Essential position. You will be required to ensure organization or facility continuity of operations and/or completion of tasks that are considered essential to the mission designated by a local or command decision.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate the following: a minimum of 25 years of relevant professional experience related to military/defense professional experience, including significant service, joint, coalition, and/or interagency planning assignments; and extensive education/teaching/instruction/practical experience in military operational planning and leading planning teams.

The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance. The incumbent must possess an expert knowledge of military operational art, campaigns, tactics and other relevant functional areas such as intelligence, logistics, communications, etc. to prepare students for follow on assignments as Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) or Joint/Coalition level planners working at flag officer-level headquarters.

Extensive education in service schools, along with extensive practical experience planning and leading planning teams, is required. Candidates must demonstrate extensive military and defense-related professional experience (including significant experience in service, joint, coalition, and/or interagency planning assignments), must hold at least a MA/MS degree, and have a minimum of twenty years of military experience. A PhD is not required for this position.

Other qualifications that will make candidates especially competitive include:

• Graduate of JPME I/II-level courses.
• Graduate of Intermediate Level Education (ILE), Advanced Intermediate Level Education (A-ILE), and Top-Level School (TLS) or equivalent fellowships.
• 25-30+ or more years as a military officer, including multiple planning assignments at increasingly higher levels of military command (e.g. MEB; Marine Major Subordinate Command; service component; regional combatant command; Joint Staff; etc.).
• Successful command at the O-5 and O-6 levels.
• Extensive experience in force and operational planning, including campaign planning and the application of operational art at the major operation/campaign level.
• A track record of writing for publication and leading/influencing unit and service level operational initiatives.

This opening will be filled under Title 10 Excepted Service, Professor of Practice, AD-07, salary range: $137,248 - $167,532, which includes the current Local Market Supplement of 33.94%. Pay and title will be set commensurate with the successful candidate's qualifications and MCU pay setting.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

EDUCATION: Are you using your education to qualify? For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcripts (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned). See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited education institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information, visit:

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Several vacancies may be filled.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at:

Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.

PCS may be authorized

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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