PROFESSOR OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

PROFESSOR OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Department: Department of the Air Force

Location(s): MacDill AFB, Florida

Salary Range: $75759 - $181112 Per Year

Job Summary: Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to To serve as a professor to educate members of the Special Operations Forces military and other national security professionals for service at operational and strategic levels. The incumbent will engage in teaching and learning, research and analysis, and service and outreach.

Major Duties:

• Teaching and Learning (T&L). Participates and supports education and leader development activities as an individual with vision and leadership qualities, who can build strong working relationships with students, faculty, and internal staff as well as supporting staff at the Combatant Command level. Research and Analysis (R&A). Performs research and analysis to publish or inform publications that contribute to the JSOU Press, journal articles, policy-oriented essays, operational publications focused on education, blog postings, special reports, books, or book chapters. Conducts self-initiated research as well as directed research at the request of key stakeholders including Commander, USSOCOM and the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff in support of JSOU President. Works independently and collaboratively to develop recommendations to achieve key national security objects specifically oriented toward special operations, thinking critically and strategically in applying joint special operations forces warfighting principles and concepts to joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIIM) operations. Non-traditional research and analysis may include innovative approaches including the ability to leverage experiments and wargames to actively analyze how special operations forces and their enablers best learn so adaptation is organic to the formations based on education as an active investment for the future global operating environment. Service and Outreach (S&O). Conducts both internal and external service to JSOU on a variety of special operations and leader development issue areas for both special operations operators and their enablers. Interacts with faculty of colleges and universities that deal with national security affairs, international relations, and military operational art to exchange ideas and concepts of mutual benefit and to project special operations contribution to national security into the civilian community. Incumbent is responsible to ensure the core classified national information protection security disciplines of information are fully covered from a policy and programmic view point to ensure overall information protection requirements meet mission requirements. Analyzes, documents, and ensures the sensitivity of documents is protected from unauthorized users. The incumbent establishes priority processing of classified information.

Qualifications: BASIC REQUIREMENT AD-1701-00 POSITIONS: A Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position. NOTE: You must submit copies of your transcripts. AND in addition to meeting the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Serves as the principal research, analysis, and wargaming liaison between Headquarters, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), JSOU, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (OASD SOLIC), supporting senior-level decision making across the SOF enterprise. Conducts applied research and analysis addressing SOF operational challenges, future force programming, and strategic issues using rigorous qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Applies subject-matter expertise to advance analytical efforts supporting SOF current operations, future force development, and strategic design. Analyzes issues affecting SOF equities, including joint warfighting, force design and posture, joint capability development, procurement, deterrence, and related strategic and operational topics. Coordinates, integrates, and contributes to collaborative research initiatives across USSOCOM, OASD SOLIC, and the OASD SOLIC Center for Special Operations Analysis, enhancing alignment and synchronization of analytical efforts. Represents OASD SOLIC, USSOCOM, and JSOU-within supervisory guidance-in meetings, conferences, working groups, and research engagements with Joint Staff elements, SOF components, sub-unified commands, academic institutions, FFRDCs, civilian research labs, and national security stakeholders. Provides expert briefings and analytical assessments to senior SOF leaders and staff, translating complex research findings into clear, actionable insights for policy, strategy, and operational planning. Maintains deep, current knowledge of national security policy, national defense strategy, joint military strategy, and joint operations to ensure analytical relevance. Produces high-quality scholarly research and analytical products for classified and unclassified dissemination, including research papers, reports, wargame products, summaries, and professional publications. Performs additional research, analytical, and academic duties as assigned by the President, Joint Special Operations University, in support of institutional education, research, and outreach missions. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Knowledge and experience in the particular subject matter field including educating adults across multiple levels of experience including instruction techniques, curriculum development, and applied learning opportunities. Knowledge of academic processes, policies, and procedures used to develop, assess, execute, evaluate and revise resident, virtual, and integrated courseware and curricula to maintain the highest academic standards consistent with civilian university and senior military professional education institutions. Knowledge of educational support systems and commercial information management systems that support education, learning, research, analysis, outreach and collaboration; analyze new technologies that support education and collaboration efforts used by or being developed by public and private that can be adapted to support education and learning for JSOU. Skills in research methodologies and publishing findings in area of expertise including the ability to write and edit to publishable scholarship standards across multiple mediums and in requisite required formats. Skills in service and outreach as required to maintain currency or further knowledge in subject matter area of expertise including participating in or supporting relevant forums or conferences, networking with other academia or industrial communities of interest, or engaging with joint, interagency, intergovernmental or multinational communities as applicable. Ability to translate vision into action, a record of program innovation, strong team-building, "teaming" and communication skills, and experience with professional military education (PME) or equivalent public or private university systems. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How to Apply: The complete Application Package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 04/24/2026 To preview the Application Questionnaire, please click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12940572 To begin the process, click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the application questionnaire. Please ensure you click the Submit My Application button at the end of the process. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes: 1. Your Resume/Curriculum Vitae If you submit more than one Resume/Curriculum Vitae, only the most recent (latest) will be reviewed to determine your qualifications. The "most recent" is considered the resume with the latest timestamp. For qualification determination your Resume/Curriculum Vitae must contain hours worked per week and dates of employment (i.e., month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your Resume/Curriculum Vitae does not contain this information, your application may be marked as insufficient, and you will not receive consideration for this position. If you are a current Federal employee or previous Federal employee, provide your pay plan, series and grade, i.e. GS-0301-09. Current Federal Civilian Employees may list any relevant performance related rating (given within the last three years) and/or incentive awards in your Resume/Curriculum Vitae. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your name, first and last, MUST be included on your resume. 2. A complete Application Questionnaire 3. Additional Required Documents (see Required Documents section). Ensure all submitted documents contain your full name. 4. Help recruiters find you. Make your resume and profile searchable, which means recruiters may contact you about possible jobs. Additional information may be located here. PLEASE NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. You may verify your documents have been processed with your application package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Human Resources WILL NOT modify or change any answers submitted by an applicant.

Application Deadline: 2026-04-24