Summary
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Duties
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 CHASS thread forms cadets for the civic, human, moral, historical, cultural, and political dimensions of officership. Centered on Western civilization and the American constitutional order, it asks cadets to understand the civilization and republic they are preparing to serve, confront enduring questions of human nature, justice, freedom, authority, war, citizenship, and the common good, and understand the responsibilities that accompany the exercise of authority. Through sustained engagement with primary texts, historical experience, literature, philosophy, political thought, rhetoric, religion, the arts, and the social sciences, cadets should develop the knowledge, habits, and judgment required of reflective citizens, responsible leaders, capable warfighters, and serious lifelong scholars. CHASS is not a collection of introductory disciplinary surveys; disciplinary knowledge is selected and ordered in service of common formative purposes. These are teaching-centered positions. SIGS seeks educators who combine genuine disciplinary depth with unusual intellectual breadth; can teach beyond a narrow specialization; work seriously with primary texts, historical experience, literature, ideas, institutions, and competing arguments; and contribute to a common integrated curriculum. Faculty should connect civic and humanistic learning to leadership, warfighting, technology, national security, constitutional responsibility, and the profession of arms. Scholarly and professional activity supports this mission, but the paramount purpose of these positions is excellent undergraduate teaching and related institutional service aimed at sustaining the excellence and integration of the core curriculum.
Education
EDUCATION: If selected, you will be requested to provide original copies of ALL OFFICIAL transcripts for degrees being pursued or obtained (or letter of degree completion if an OFFICIAL transcript is not available due to recent graduation) to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a transcript to be considered OFFICIAL, it should be printed on university letterhead and the registrar's official seal/signature must appear on the transcript. Your transcripts must also reflect the degree awarded/conferred date. Transcripts labeled UNOFFICIAL will not be accepted. Upon request, ensure you include ALL transcripts to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae (resume) even if not required for this position. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the educational requirements. However, you must show proof that the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying in the form of an "official" statement of U.S. equivalency from a Department of Education approved (non-federal) agency (i.e. AICE, NACES), who will complete a U.S. Standard of Education Conversion.
How you will be evaluated
Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to contribute to the teaching-centered, integrated mission of SIGS, including: - Academic preparation, disciplinary expertise, intellectual breadth, and undergraduate teaching effectiveness. - Experience or potential with primary-text, common-core, writing-intensive, seminar, or comparable formative education. - Ability to connect Western civilization, the American constitutional order, and enduring civic and human questions to officership without reducing liberal education to vocational training. - Interdisciplinary teaching, common-course and curriculum development, assessment, and collaboration. - Ability to connect CHASS learning with broader ethical, technological, strategic, operational, warfighting, and national-security questions. - Cadet mentorship, scholarly or professional engagement, academic service, and leadership appropriate to rank. Starting September 27, 2025, USAJOBS began restricting all resumes to two pages in length. The restriction does NOT apply to this position. Please upload your Resume/Curriculum Vitae using the Other Documents - Curriculum Vitae option. You are still required to provide a document in the Resume section to successfully submit your application. In the Resume section, please upload a document informing your Resume/Curriculum Vitae was submitted using Other Documents. You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. This position is not in the competitive civil service and late applications from veterans do not apply. Applicants will be assessed based on their teaching credentials, scholarship, service, and education. Your application package (curriculum vitae / resume and cover letter) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further. Interested persons should submit a curriculum vitae and cover letter addressing how their qualifications meet the requirements of this announcement, including evidence of undergraduate teaching excellence; disciplinary depth and intellectual breadth; ability to teach meaningfully beyond a narrow specialization; ability to contribute to an integrated common curriculum; and sustained scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the rank sought. Additional documents are required to complete your application package, please reference the "How to Apply" and "Required Documents" section for more information. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.