CHANCELLOR

National Defense University (NDU) supports the joint warfighter by providing rigorous Joint Professional Military Education to members of the U.S. Armed Forces and select others in order to develop leaders who have the ability to operate and creatively think in an unpredictable and complex world.

This is a Title 10 Excepted Service Appointment. Appointment is not to exceed 2 years with the possibility for extension.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

Applicants must evidence the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

1. Prior service as a senior leader in the Intelligence Community.
2. Possess a master's degree (a Doctorate or other terminal or professional degree is preferred) from a regionally accredited institution of higher education (or international equivalent) in an appropriate discipline or field.

While not required, exceptional candidates will provide evidence of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

1. Experience teaching and advising adult learners from within the military, intelligence community, and national security enterprise. This includes academic and/or senior professional experience, and a strong record of teaching, research, and publication, in a field relevant to the NIC mission.
2. Demonstrated ability to plan and execute strategic management of information, resources, and budgets in support of mission and organizational goals.

Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Responsibilities:

Provides senior executive leadership and direction over all aspects of the National Intelligence College (NIC), the Department of War's premier senior national security educational institution focused on the intelligence domain to educate the leaders from the U.S. military, USG interagency, and international partner countries.

Oversees, manages, and evolves NIC's graduate and certificate programs with responsibility for classroom and office facilities, and relations with partner NDU components. Builds and sustains strategic educational partnerships with U.S. Government agencies, the private sector, international partners and allies, and other DoW educational institutions and universities. Prepares IC strategic leaders to meet the institutional learning outcome: communication, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, engagement, expertise, and research.

Develops and leads the implementation of the NIC strategic plan and continuous improvement process. Develops alternative learning modalities, including credentialing options and certificate programs that are accessible to full and part time DoW and interagency employees. This includes refreshing curricula to ensure NIC coursework continually evolves in response to mission requirements of the Department change, and ensure academic accreditations and requirements are met.

Exercises overall direction and management of all civilian and military positions. Establishes processes to ensure close coordination with the NDU staff and academic components. This includes planning, programming for, and directing the College's education and training activities; establishing short/long-range goals, policies and procedures; assigning responsibilities; tracking work in progress; and solving problems referred by superiors, peers and subordinates.

Engages regularly with the NDU President, Provost, counterpart Chancellors, Commandants, and other NDU leaders, Joint Staff, and experts and key stakeholders to support curriculum development, teaching, research, and outreach. Liaises with high-ranking visitors, foreign dignitaries, and senior government officials, as well as leaders of industry, civilian academic institutions, and professional associations.

Salary : $165,202