Summary Position leads the Academic Operations Plans/Programs Division and oversees management/governance of AU's academic enterprise. Position is part of the HQ AU A3 Directorate and creates/maintains plans/programs, policy/guidance development, and execution of academic operations. Ensures the AU/CC and 10 subordinate School/Center Commanders have the data, metrics and analysis required to make decisions. Serves as one of AU's primary interlocutors w/ internal/external educational organizations. Responsibilities Leads working groups and executes operations-focused projects to ensure the AU commander, senior staff, and Center Commanders and School Commandants have the situational awareness, data, metrics and rigorous analysis required to make evidence-based decisions to execute the AU academic enterprise. Establishes, revises or reviews AU policies, procedures, mission objectives and organizational design to eliminate work problems, promote team building and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of AU operations across subordinate units and the AU staff. Plans, organizes, and directs efforts that execute higher headquarters guidance and achieve organizational and customers' needs. Negotiates positions with representatives of subordinate units to resolve matters that are often controversial, complicated, or set precedent; recommends policy positions to the AU Commander and senior staff on matters of considerable consequence that affect educational, training and force development issues for AETC and the Air Force. Provides appropriate guidance, analysis, and feedback to the A3, Chief Academic Officer and other staff, as directed, on the status of current academic programs, governance, and faculty issues and efforts within Air University. Keeps abreast of current trends and practices within Air University, other military service schools and civilian higher education institutions on best practices in academic operations. Takes actions necessary to establish and maintain the A30 division. Prepares, and coordinates input regarding academic programs at AU schools as directed. Directs AU workflow in the USAF task management tool by clarifying tasks and deliverables prior to transmittal to subordinate units and reviewing, consolidating, approving AU responses before transmittal to higher headquarters. Supports the Air University Director of Operations on a wide variety of educational, academic policy, personnel, administrative and logistical matters both orally and in writing and also serves as an advisor on management matters. Collaborates with AU Academic Affairs evaluators and AU School representatives to monitor the execution of the Air University academic mission. Formulates and monitors a budget, estimates annual funding needs, and implements accurate detailed analyses necessary to support the Air University Chief Academic Officer and A3 staff. Analyzes data from prior and current year's expenditures, long-range workload and needs to formulate budget requirements. Routinely documents budget data in a wide variety of forms, reports, and schedules. Accomplishes documentation in accordance with regulatory requirements/procedures and within established time limits providing for timely accomplishment of follow-on budget processes. Demonstrates leadership in terms of mission/human relations objectives, personnel and management actions. Assigns work to subordinate elements to ensure fully responsive directorate. Reviews work of subordinates and is responsible for actions taken and advice provided. Recruits and selects candidates for key vacancies, approves personnel selections or recommendations for selection. Counsels the staff on individual career development, ensures training plans and requirements are consistent with the needs of the operations directorate and in consonance with the individual developmental needs of the staff. Establishes performance expectations and objectives. Rates performance of directly supervised employees. Develops, authors, coordinates, publishes and revises Air University operational plans that execute AETC/AU mission areas and functions; pinpoints deficiencies, and provides solutions to overcome deficiencies. Authoritative consultant to the AU Commander, senior staff and Center Commanders and School Commandants in developing education operations plans, creating mission analyses and needs analyses. Manages plans development to ensure they provide accurate and detailed analysis of their mission and functional requirements. Directs AU Planning and Planning Choices development as part of the AETC Planning Programing Budget and Execution Corporate Process, in coordination with other members of the AU staff, particularly AU/FM budget programmers and execution specialists. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Must have knowledge of collegiate-level higher education student information systems. Must have ability to design and interpret research projects. Must be able to manage and coordinate large and complex projects under time constraints, while interacting with high-level professionals. The candidate should expect to provide a "job talk" as part of the hiring process. QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED: Prior academic service to include: PhD with academic affairs/academic support experience at an accredited post-secondary institution. Instructor or guest lecturer at an accredited post-secondary institution. Academic program manager at an accredited post-secondary institution. Curriculum development experience at an accredited post-secondary Air University is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive educational environment: We are dedicated to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty committed to inclusive teaching and scholarship. Prospective candidates must engender a climate that values and uses diversity in all its forms to enrich debate and make the institution more inclusive. Applicants should address how they will further these goals in their cover letter. Education Must possess an earned master's degree or other appropriate terminal degree from an accredited post-secondary institution. ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcripts with the application. Official transcripts are required at the time of application. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Additional Information The position will be an initial three-year appointment with a one-year probationary period, with the potential for continued reappointment for additional 1-5 year terms. This position is subject to Air University's tenure and promotion policy, this position is tenure-track eligible. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click here. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated in the "Highly Qualified" or "Best Qualified" Category on the rating criteria for this vacancy. 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